Analysis of Code Mixing in Pakistani English Postcolonial Novels

The present study discusses the scope, nature and implication and reasons of code mixing in Pakistani Post-colonial novels. It draws focus upon the conceptual frameworks developed by Flower (1996) and Muthiah (2009) and the earlier models offered by kachru (1983), Baumgardener, kennedy and Shmim (1993). Five post-colonial novels by Pakistani English novels namely, My Feudal Lord by Tehmina Durrani, Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie, Home Boy by H. M. Naqvi, An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa, Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid were selected as a sample of this study. The author has analyzed the characteristics of Post- colonialism in these novels. In this paper, we have found code mixing in English novels written by Pakistani writers to a greater extent. The writers while writing novels have not degraded the local varieties rather they have highlighted the importance of Pakistani English as English language at times fails to fulfill the communicative needs of local people. These borrowings from the local languages are done to fill the lexical gaps of ideological ideas which are not found in English. The purpose of these borrowings is not the projection of code mixing English as substandard variety. We conclude that through the use of local words the importance of local languages has been highlighted as well as question marks upon Lingua franca have been manifested. The words of daily use which don't have a substitute in English are also an area of research for English people. New themes have been employed in fiction in code mixing techniques in English literature.