http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).06
10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).06
Published : Mar 2022
Metafunctional Analysis of Nominalized Thematic Structures in English and Urdu
The current study discusses the metafunctional diversity of nominalized thematic structures in Achebe’s (1958) English novel, Things Fall Apart and in its Urdu translation, Bikharti Duniya (Ullah, 1991). For statistical measurement, O'Donnell’s (2008) scheme of the UAM Corpus tool has been used to annotate the selected corpus. After annotation, some nominalized themes in English and Urdu have been screened to interpret their grammatical realization, functional significance, thematic progression (McCabe, 1999) and unmotivated displacements of nominalized themes. The results show that the grammatical realization of nominalized themes in English and Urdu varies due to the verbs marked with gender and numbers. Additionally, the English and the Urdu nominalized themes go parallel in theme markedness but the difference is observed when the thematic information units become rhematic information units.
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Nominalization, Theme, Rheme, Corpus, English, Urdu
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(1) Humaira Yaqub
Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
(2) Ansa Ahsan
Lecturer, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Mubashir Iqbal
Lecturer, University of Narowal, Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Yaqub, H., Ahsan, A., & Iqbal, M. (2022). Metafunctional Analysis of Nominalized Thematic Structures in English and Urdu. Global Language Review, VII(I), 55-70. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).06
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CHICAGO : Yaqub, Humaira, Ansa Ahsan, and Mubashir Iqbal. 2022. "Metafunctional Analysis of Nominalized Thematic Structures in English and Urdu." Global Language Review, VII (I): 55-70 doi: 10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).06
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HARVARD : YAQUB, H., AHSAN, A. & IQBAL, M. 2022. Metafunctional Analysis of Nominalized Thematic Structures in English and Urdu. Global Language Review, VII, 55-70.
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MHRA : Yaqub, Humaira, Ansa Ahsan, and Mubashir Iqbal. 2022. "Metafunctional Analysis of Nominalized Thematic Structures in English and Urdu." Global Language Review, VII: 55-70
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MLA : Yaqub, Humaira, Ansa Ahsan, and Mubashir Iqbal. "Metafunctional Analysis of Nominalized Thematic Structures in English and Urdu." Global Language Review, VII.I (2022): 55-70 Print.
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OXFORD : Yaqub, Humaira, Ahsan, Ansa, and Iqbal, Mubashir (2022), "Metafunctional Analysis of Nominalized Thematic Structures in English and Urdu", Global Language Review, VII (I), 55-70
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TURABIAN : Yaqub, Humaira, Ansa Ahsan, and Mubashir Iqbal. "Metafunctional Analysis of Nominalized Thematic Structures in English and Urdu." Global Language Review VII, no. I (2022): 55-70. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-I).06