Development of Gender-based Pakistani Academic Word List (G-PAWL)

Abstract

Differences in the language used by men and women have intrigued scholars since long. However, the use of corpus-based techniques for such research is infrequent, especially in Pakistan. After the advent of the concept of World Englishes, corpora are developed to show the identity of different countries, individuals, regions and areas of the world. Likewise,
English spoken and written in Pakistan is different from the English language used in various countries/areas of the world. There is not only worldwide differences in spoken and written discourses, researches show that language used by men and women is also different. Therefore, this research aims at exploring lexical items used by men and women and
ultimately developing Gender-based Pakistani Academic Word List (GPAWL