Impact of bilingualism in Bano qudsia novel
Author: Muneeb Ahmad, China
Abstract: Pakistani novelists have multilingual ability which helps them to try out different language skills in their writing by using local and global languages. This goal of this study is to investigate language schemes in the selected novel. The innovative approach of code mixing, codeswitching and borrowing is investigated in Pakistani fiction. The novel HASIL GHAT (2005) by bano qudsia is chosen for the study. Bano qudsia was well known for writing modern Urdu classics. She conveyed her thoughts using both local to global language. The writer used Codemixed words because these words have substitute in the host language and due to well known cultural factors makes the author to use native expression. She also used the feature of code switching and borrowing in this novel. Urdu and English language is used side by side in Pakistani culture. On the one hand Urdu is our domestic language and on the other hand English is our governmental language so these are connected with each other at all levels of life and this factor is also available in Pakistani fiction. We used qualitative and descriptive methodology in this research. This research will enhance our comprehension of linguistic forms used by Pakistani writers in relation to code mixing and code-switching in this novel.