TY  - JOUR
T1  - Motives Behind Stigmatization and Glorification of Languages: A Social Survey of the
Provincial Languages of Pakistan
AU - Issa, Muhammad 
JO  - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
VL  - 18
IS  - 5
SP  - 101
EP  - 105
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1683-8831
DO  - pjssci.2021.101.105
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2021.101.105
KW  - Language
KW  -glorification
KW  -stigmatization
KW  -commodification
KW  -process
KW  -society
AB  - Linguists unanimously acknowledge the
importance of the attitudes of speakers towards a
particular language because their attitude is always
dictated by some invisible or tangible motives. These
motives may be of various kinds. But they can be
categorized into linguistic and non-linguistic.
Linguistically, the process of stigmatizing simply leads a
language to attrition, decline and death of a language
whereas, glorification of a language guides a language to
rehabilitation, strengthening, thriving and expansion.
Non-linguistic motives include socio, economic and
political motives of the speakers. This study attempts to
investigate the motivations of the speakers of the
provincial languages of Pakistan for the process of
glorification and stigmatization of languages.
ER  -