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Neologism Formation in Pakistani TV Comedy Talk Show Khabarnaak

Tahir Rasool Tariq, M.Phil. (Linguistics)


A Khabarnaak Episode
Courtesy: http://www.paknews.tv/category/geo-news/khabarnaak/

Abstract

This research is about exploration the phenomenon of neologism in Pakistani media shows. The term neologism means coinage of new words; this term was firstly used in 1800. A few researches have been done before this research in Pakistani context. All the previous researches are based on text, while this research is based oral discussion analysis. Hope this research will be helpful for future researchers regarding the phenomenon of neologism.

This research was conducted into two phases. First phase planned to transcribe thirty selected episodes from Khabarnaak, a very famous Pakistani television comedy talk show. Second phase was planned to collect the neologism from selected episodes. Selection of neologism was made on the basis of keen observation and after the verification from authentic dictionaries. Data analysis was categorised into two steps, first step was to investigate word formation processes and second step was to investigate word classes amongst selected neologisms. Microsoft Excel was used to find out the frequencies of selected neologisms. Frequencies were based on selected number of neologisms. Results of this research show that most frequently produced neologisms in Pakistani context are coming from English rather than Urdu and Punjabi.

Keywords: Pakistani TV Comedy, Khabarnaak, Social media, neologism, word formation processes, word classes.

1. Introduction

Human language is a creative entity. It is dynamic and not static, and these qualities help a language to grow and survive. The lexicons or vocabularies of all living languages are developing on regular basis. These new additions come in various ways, sometime new words are borrowed from other languages, sometime entirely new words are created in a language, etc. Neologism is also one such phenomenon through which new words added in a language."A neologism is a lexeme that is not described in dictionaries" (Stenetorp, 2010).

The focus of this research is on this phenomenon of word formation to find different ways of word creation. For the exploration of word classes and word formation processes various TV talk shows were considered but only "Khabarnaak" is selected for the present research study because it is one of the richest source in which this phenomenon of neologism is observed. The other talk shows are different in their genres. Therefore, they were not considered for this research.

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Tahir Rasool Tariq, M.Phil. (Linguistics)
Department of English Language and Literature
Riphah International University
Lahore
Pakistan
tahir5050@gmail.com

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