Mahrukh Fatima, A. R. Siddique, Muhammad Ahmad, Muhammad Asim Mahmood
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This research investigated linguistic variation in Pakistani English newspaper editorials employing multidimensional analysis to identify: distinguished language feature; and linguistic variation in the light of textual dimensions model. Corpus comprised 1,000 editorials from four newspapers. Results showed the distinguished use of nouns, public verbs and sentence relatives thereby the editorials were found focusing on narrative, explicit and informational discourse. These results led to conclude about the presence of linguistic variation in Pakistani English newspaper editorials.