Hafiz Qasim

Government College University Faisalabad | GCUF

Writers maintain the texture of the text and information with appropriate thematic choices. Previous studies have established that the problem of jumbled information existed in the academic writings of non-native English writers. Considering this, the present study aimed to analyze social science research articles written by Pakistani and British r...

The most creative and educational reference materials for professionals in a specific area, both within and across cultures, are dictionaries. The complete process of creating a bilingual English-Urdu vocabulary of law is addressed in this paper. This includes all phases of the compilation process including planning, terms extraction, parallel corp...

ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate the language of emotions in the Urdu Poetry of Bhabha and Ajami. The study also explicated how meanings were construed through the use of certain linguistic choices pertinent to the representation of emotions. The study was qualitative as the textual data was analyzed qualitatively. The data for the analysi...

Emotions are the responses that human beings experience in response to any event or situation. Emotions are characterized by fear, joy, anger, disgust, pity, and shock. Emotion is always mysterious for human beings to understand required purposes in multiple disciplines. This study aims to explore the expressions of emotions and attain a deep under...

Glossaries are created to provide information on a wide range of words and their usage, as well as to improve people's intercultural knowledge. This article covers the process of developing a bilingual English-Urdu glossary, with a focus on the tourism industry. It outlines all steps taken for the glossary compilation process and analyses the issue...

The present study contributes to the growing literature on Pakistani novels in English by exploring transitivity choices in Bapsi Sidwa’s An American Brat from Halliday’s (2014) systemic functional grammar (SFG) perspective. Data of the study consisted of 1158 clauses that were selected from the novel. The following techniques were used to analyze...

The present study contributes to the growing literature on Pakistani novels in English by exploring transitivity choices in Bapsi Sidwa’s An American Brat from Halliday’s (2014) systemic functional grammar (SFG) perspective. Data of the study consisted of 1158 clauses that were selected from the novel. The following techniques were used to analyze...

The present study contributes to the growing literature on Pakistani novels in English by exploring transitivity choices in Bapsi Sidwa’s An American Brat from Halliday’s (2014) systemic functional grammar (SFG) perspective. Data of the study consisted of 1158 clauses that were selected from the novel. The following techniques were used to analyze...

The present study contributes to the growing literature on Pakistani novels in English by exploring transitivity choices in Bapsi Sidhwa’s An American Brat from Halliday’s (2004) systemic functional grammar (SFG) perspective. Data of the study consisted of 1158 clauses that were selected from the novel. The following techniques were used to analyse...

The textbook is one of the most substantial elements of classroom learning. As a result, it is critical to conduct a textbook evaluation to improve the quality of the teaching and learning environment in the classroom. Keeping in mind the very importance of the textbook evaluation, the current study evaluated a 10th-grade English textbook published...

Textbook is one of the most substantial elements of classroom learning. As a result, it is critical to conduct a textbook evaluation to improve the quality of the teaching and learning environment in the classroom. Keeping in mind the very importance of the textbook evaluation, the current study evaluated a 10th-grade English textbook published by...

This research aims to study the dictionary using habits among the learners of English asa second language in the South Punjab region of Pakistan, their reference skills, and look-upbehaviours. Literate people usually keep and consult a dictionary for negotiating with meaning, and in the case of dealing with the lexis of a foreign language, dictiona...

The present research pertains to political discourse analysis that seeks to explore the political persuasion strategies employed by political leaders in their speeches. The persuasive strategies employed byDonald Trump in his speech delivered at the United Nations General Assembly74th session provide primary data for this qualitative study. The stu...

Metadiscourse is an interesting field of inquiry that is believed to play a vital role in organizing and producing persuasive writing. It is a set of linguistic devices used to communicate attitudes and mark the structural properties of a text. The study aimed to investigate whether native and non-native varieties of English varieties are similar o...

Language studiesin India are reported to be associated withAnglo-Indians and particularly to those who under the aegis of the Fort William College (FWC) Calcutta, sought to document the indigenous languages. Their contribution helped overcome the communication barrier between the ruler and the ruled. The present study isdescriptive. Employing a doc...

Metadiscourse markers are linguistic expressions which help the writers to organize their discourses. The original impetus for the research study came from the need to explore similarities and differences among the use and distribution of metadiscourse markers between two different languages, English and Urdu, within a single genre. To this end, th...

Conjunctive cohesion is an indispensable linguistic signpost that writers use to create a logical relationship between the parts of the text (Halliday and Hasan, 1976). In the present study, the conjunctive analysis of Pakistani Social Science Articles (PSSA) has been carried out. This study is corpus-based, and the corpus comprised 250 articles th...

Accuracy and Fluency are two factors which determine the competence in language usage (Srivastava, 2014). Traditional grammarians always emphasize the importance of grammatical rules during language teaching/learning. It results in the development of accuracy than fluency among non-native language users. The paper deals with the issue that accuracy...

Ideology is a semiotic system and social interaction helps in realizing it through language. It is widely acknowledged that editorials are an effective tool in the construal of ideology. They contain the interpretations of key events aiming to develop an understanding of the world in readers. This study aimed to explicate the ideologies construed i...

The present study focuses on analyzing the categories of thought presentation (TP) in the novel by adopting the model of Leech and Short (2007). This model stipulates that there are five categories of TP: a) direct thought DT, b) indirect thought IT, c) free direct thought FDT, d) free indirect thought FIT and e) narrative report of thought act NRT...

The present research pertains to political discourse analysis that seeks to explore the political persuasion strategies employed by political leaders in their speeches. The persuasive strategies employed by Donald Trump in his speech delivered at the United Nations General Assembly 74th session provide primary data for this qualitative study. The s...

This quantitative study examined 100 Pakistani ESL learners' beliefs about both learning English language learning and their learning strategy use. It focused on the relationship between language learning strategies used by the Pakistani ESL learners to learn the English language and the beliefs they held about it. To collect the data on learners'...

It has been a controversial issue to ascertain whether girls have an advantage in literacy skills over boys or not. There are studies showing a minor or no lead of girls in literacy skills (White, 2007). On the other hand, several studies described better literacy skills in girls than boys (Ready, LoGerfo, Burkam& Lee, 2005; Coley, 2001). Reasons l...

The present research aims to analyze contents of 'O' level English book taught in Pakistani schools. This research investigates the distribution of cultural senses in textbook and what is most dominant cultural sense. The contents of the textbook will be analyzed based on the framework propounded by by Adaskou, Britten, and Fahsi (1990). The framew...

This paper seeks to explore the social and situational trauma suffered by Anjum, a transgender woman, in Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. For the purpose of analysis of the text, insights were drawn from trauma theory proposed by Vickroy (2014). The findings indicated that throughout her life, Anjum faced extremely traumatic events in terms...

Speaking a foreign language creates anxiety in foreign language learners. The study aimed to investigate the impact of gender on Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) and speaking proficiency of advanced level students. The participants of the study were 150 students (90 female students of Government Girls College Model Town Dera Ghazi Khan, and 60 male s...

Metadiscourse features (MFs) uncover the way authors draw in with various writings and communicate with each other. MFs have been studied in Pakistani English Newspapers, especially in Letter to Editors. This is a corpus based study. 30 letters to Editors published in Dawn News have been taken from online electronic version of the internet. The pre...

The present study focuses on analyzing the categories of thought presentation (TP) in the novel by adopting the model of Leech and Short (2007). This model stipulates that there are five categories of TP: a) direct thought DT, b) indirect thought IT, c) free direct thought FDT, d) free indirect thought FIT and e) narrative report of thought act NRT...

The primary goal of this study is to investigate the writers' choice of attitude markers to explore how these preferred markers show the writers' stances and styles of communication to their readers. The secondary goal is to study how attitude markers serve their functions in Pakistani English Newspaper Editorials. For the study, a total number of...

The present study aimed to investigate the influence of social background on the students' performance of English at the secondary school level. 150 students and9 teachers of the English languagefrom six public secondary schools of D. G. Khan were selected as data using stratified sampling and systematic random sampling techniquesrespectively. The...

The study aimed to investigate metafunctional diversity in the light of textual, interpersonal, and ideational thematic relations by analyzing thematic structures in Durrani's My Feudal Lord. A mixed-method approach was used in the current study. Data for the analysis were taken from My Feudal Lord which consisted of 18 chapters. The introductory p...

The current research is about the phenomenon of lexical borrowing of English vocabulary items in Punjabi language. The corpus of two million (2M) words of Punjabi language was collected and frequency list of borrowed words was developed. The frequency list of borrowed words was manually checked and the words borrowed from English were extracted. Th...

The present study attempts to investigate the social functions performed by English code-switching in an Urdu novel, Amarbail, written by Umera Ahmad. The focus of the study is to examine how the societal norms and patterns of a contextual society are externalized in the selected novel through code-switching phenomenon. The study has a pragmatic st...

Precise lemmatization is the nucleus of the micro structural information of a headword in any dictionary. It helps not only in succinctly appropriate de-structuring of the word into desired morphological semantic and syntactic categories but also having access to a desired entry. The present study seeks to highlight inconsistencies with reference t...

This study aims to specify criteria for speaking skill assessment. Mainly, it focuses on answering questions about speaking skill, speaking skill assessment, different levels and types of speaking, suitability of tasks, scoring procedure and current trends in speaking skill testing. It is a library based descriptive study. Its material has been ret...

This research paper explores the stages of identity formation of the protagonist Changez in the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. It has been written in the backdrop of 9/11 at USA. In such a chaotic situation, the identity retention for an outsider, especially one from some economically poor state, really becomes a crucial issue....

The present study is aimed at an investigation of how meanings are construed in a literary text. The main theoretical framework employed for the data analysis was transitivity, which finds its roots in Halliday’s (1994) Systemic Functional Grammar. 21 texts from Hamid’s novel, Moth Smoke (MS) were selected as data. A sample size of 1100 complex cla...

Words used in a language are not neutral. They carry definite meanings and a particular worldview, especially when used in narrative writing. Fiction writers exploit linguistic choices in their writing to convey a specific message to the reader. The present study aims to explore how experiential meanings are construed through specific linguistic ch...

The present study aims at exploring the transitivity system used in Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, employing Halliday (1994)'s Systemic Functional Linguistics' (SFL) framework. The major objective of the study was an exploration of transitivity choices available in 21 texts selected from the novel. The focus of the discussion was pr...

The present study aims to analyze Badan Dareeda by Fahmida Riaz, a prominent Pakistani poetess, from Sara Mill's feminist stylistic perspective (1995). By developing the link between Fahmida Riaz's transitivity choices and her depiction of female characters, the paper explores the representation of female figures in her poetry and the use of the me...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the word-coining process for the Urdu language particularly within the genre of Information and Communication technologies (ICT) in Pakistan for proposing the secondary terms. Overreliance on borrowing and coin formation used extensively for term formation in Urdu is not only cognitively challenging but h...