Exploration of Pinglish: Bridging Concepts with Concrete Data

English is recognized as the Co-official language of Pakistan; however historically it is referred as the language of the colonizers. Pakistan adopted One Nation One Language policy after the partition. However, English was already nativized by the locals, which led to the formation of Pakistani English (PakE). Over years, the functions and role of English in the language policy and use evolved. As a results, Pinglish was gradually recognized as a standard variety with unique morphological and word-formation processes. These new word-formation processes have been added to the database of this variety, which are underexplored. Hence, the present study provides a thematic overview of the lexical features that have become the main aspects of the Pakistani variety. The data for analyzing these features have been collected from and English newspaper, Daily Dawn. The newspaper has a large audience and is often recommended by English teachers for improving their English language especially vocabulary. Bureaucrats also recommend the newspaper to competitive examination candidates. The data was analyzed to generate more ideas for the thematic paper. Based on the critical review presented in this study, the data is beneficial for the codification of the language within the lexical sphere of Pakistani English. The analysis reflects upon the main theme that non-native varieties have their standing in the international arena, and more research can be done to document other elements of Pinglish. This documentation needs to be done rapidly to discover new features of the variety.