Aisha Saleem

University of Central Punjab · English Language Centre

This study explores verbal and nonverbal congratulatory responses in the context of joyful Facebook status updates in Pakistani English and Urdu. Employing Terkourafi’s frame-based approach, quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted on 16,165 comments and 16,230 emoji reactions from 140 Pakistani users. Elwood’s taxonomy and Allami and P...

People usually express their feelings and emotions positively to others when they have happy occasions. However, the ways of expressing congratulation may vary because the expressive speech act “congratulations” is not the only way to express happiness and share others their happy news. The present study investigates the congratulation strategies o...

Article Info Abstract Article History Assessment is an important part of the higher education system. Due to the pandemic Covid-19, Pakistan's education system has shifted to online assessments. The current study aims to explore Pakistani university students' perceptions regarding online assessment as it can help in identifying the strengths and we...

This study examines sociocultural, pragmatic, and gender differences between native speakers of British English (BritE) and Pakistani English speakers (PakE) in expressing apology responses (ARs). Based on a discourse completion task (DCT) using data from 60 speakers of both cultures, the study focuses on the variations in the use of apology respon...

In Pragmatics, scholars have given special attention to study the influence of learners' culture and social rules in understanding and using target language pragmatics. For this purpose, speech acts have been studied quite widely. This study investigates the speech act of responding to apology in Pakistani English, British English, and Pakistani Ur...

The current research paper aims to analyze the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly. It attempts to explore the transitivity process in political speech. In this research, the Ideational meta-function of Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is used as a theoretical framework. Transcripti...

In recent years, the areas of intercultural pragmatics and transcultural pragmatics under the phenomenon of “interculturality” have been investigated by linguists and language scholars because interculturality has a deep-rooted connection with the language and second language teaching and learning. This data-oriented study follows a quantitative re...

The purpose of the current study is to evaluate the application of Lexeme Based Theory on Urdu language, because it claims to engulf, the all aspects of all languages, through its Word Formation Rules (WFRs). In this article, Urdu nouns and adjectives are carefully selected and scrutinized for the processing of these rules. This theory asserts to b...