Publications

Publication details [#27625]

Rahman, Tariq. 1996. The Punjabi movement in Pakistan. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (122) : 73–88.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language planning | language status | language use | power | urban community

Language as a subject

English | Punjabi | Urdu

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper deals with the Punjabi language movement which aims at convincing the state to strenghten the status of Punjabi by employing it in the 'power' domains of the judiciary, administration, education etc., instead of Urdu and English.