LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 2 February 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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Cricketing Language in the Political Discourse of Pakistan

Muhammad Usman, M.Phil., M.A., B.Ed.


Abstract

Cricket is the most widely followed sport in Pakistan. It has, with the passage of time, become a vital part of the Pakistani society. Influencing not merely some limited social aspects, Cricket has also penetrated through much complex social phenomena like politics and diplomacy. Impetus to this is the extensive usage of cricketing language by the politicians of Pakistan in their political discourse. This not only indicates that cricket holds a greater-than-sport status in Pakistan but also posits that the political discourse, much like other discourses, is socially determined.

This paper analyses selective news items, articles and political statements etc., to indicate and tabulate a number of cricketing terminologies, metaphors and phrases being frequently used in political sense.

Keywords

Political discourse, cricketing metaphors, cricket and politics, cricket diplomacy, language, politics and society

Cricket in South Asia

Sport is an integral part of the human society, whose history dates back to almost 2000 BC. It is not an activity merely for entertainment, rather an essential part of human and societal development. It infuses comprehensibility and tolerance at both individual and collective levels by promoting sportsman spirit. Not confined to only one society, sports is a universal language understood and shared by other nations, hence, becoming a medium of social, political and economic mediation.


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Muhammad Usman, MPhil, M.A., B.Ed.
Faculty of Advance Integrated Studies & Research
National University of Modern Languages (NUML)
Islamabad – 44000
Pakistan
ranamutk@gmail.com

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