Muhammad Shakir

List of John Benjamins publications for which Muhammad Shakir plays a role.

Articles

Shakir, Muhammad and Dagmar Deuber 2024 Code-switching in South Asian English CMCEnglish World-Wide 45:3, pp. 311–341 | Article
This paper analyses the use of indigenous language elements including code-switching in two contrasting genres, i.e. group chats and Twitter memes along with tweets, in the English communication of South Asian (Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan) internet users. The results from… read more
Shakir, Muhammad 2023 Functions of code-switching in online registers of Pakistani EnglishNew Englishes, New Methods, Wilson, Guyanne and Michael Westphal (eds.), pp. 42–64 | Chapter
This chapter analyzes online registers of Pakistani English to identify (socio)linguistic functions for code-switching to indigenous languages. Predominantly English texts containing code-switching instances to Urdu and other Pakistani languages were selected. A corpus of about 1.2 million words… read more
Shakir, Muhammad and Dagmar Deuber 2019 A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani and U.S. English blogs and columnsEnglish World-Wide 40:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
The present study is a Multidimensional Analysis (MDA) of English blogs and newspaper columns originating from Pakistan and the U.S. using MDA dimensions reported in Grieve et al. (2010): (i) Informational versus Personal Focus; (ii) Addressee Focus; (iii) Thematic Variation; and (iv) Narrative… read more