LANGUAGE MIX IN DIVERSITY: A SOCIOLINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF CODE MIXING AMONG DIFFERENT SOCIAL CLASSES IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

The present research is an effort to divulge the most common issue of contemporary age that how different social classes mix languages and how do economic factors affect language mixing behaviors in Pakistani social classless. For this research researchers used survey technique. The population of the study were the social classes of district Lahore, from which researcher selected 150 participants from all three classes by using purposive sampling technique. The researcher meets these participants which were head of the families and divided questionnaire among them as data collection tool. The questionnaire was contained on three parts; part A contains on demographic statistics of the research participants; part B contains on ten close ended questions and part C comprises three open ended questions. The data was gathered and this congregated data was later analyzed by using SPSS software and presented in tables in numerical form. The findings showed that Pakistani social-classes mix languages differently due to some economic factors which are affecting language mixing behaviors in Pakistani social classless. In the end researcher give some suggestions.