Factor Loading in Pakistani Educational Blogs vs Native Educational Blogs: A Multidimensional Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.56294/saludcyt20251837Keywords:
Factor Loading, PEBs, NEBsAbstract
This study investigates Factor Loading between Pakistani and Native (British) English educational blogs using a corpus-based approach. In this study, co-occurring sets of linguistic traits will be identified through the use of factor analysis, a statistical technique. Drawing on the old and new multidimensional analysis frameworks proposed by Biber (1988, 2004), this study examines a corpus of 300 educational blogs, equally sourced from Pakistani and British contexts. The blogs were annotated for multidimensional analysis, with over 150 linguistic features analyzed to identify dimensions contributing to linguistic variation. stic approach. These insights contribute to a deeper understanding of digital educational discourse and its variations across cultures. So for as Involved and Informational dimensions of PEBS and NEBS is concerned, PEBS show that Pakistani bloggers use an informal tone while the Native bloggers use complex sentence structure in order to avoid informality. Moreover, PEBS use clear, concise and objective language in order to be formal and authoritative in tone while NEBS use descriptive and action oriented discourse. The interesting thing to mention is that in all other dimensions, both PEBS and NEBS have same discourse strategies. Both PEBS and NEBS use explicit discourse style for direct communication. Similarly, both PEBS and NEBS use overt persuasion as persuasion technique. Furthermore, both PEBS and NEBS use abstract language to communicate sophisticated ideas. Last and the least, both PEBS and NEBS use online information Elaboration to convey ideas clearly.
Keywords: Pakistani educational blogs, Multidimensional analysis (MDA), Factor Loading
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