Jamil Asghar Jami

• PhD English (Linguistics)
• Professor of Linguistics/Dean Faculty of Languages/Professional Translator and Interpreter at National University of Modern Languages

This paper explores the use of linguistic and conceptual metaphors employed to describe the material and economic aspects in the discourses centered on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Multiple metaphors are found in the data which are examined through a corpus analysis. The cognitive linguistics provides the background to this study wh...

The controversy of the medium of instruction in Pakistan is old and its roots date back to the pre-Independence Colonial period. Pakistan inherited an educational structure from the British Empire which was later largely modified but its certain essential features are in place to date. The banishment of Urduand, in its stead, the inclusion of Engli...

Iqbal, in every sense of the word, is a timeless and universal poet. James Nowell Wood once said, “The greatest wonder of great art, always, is that it is at once timely and timeless. If we will but give it time”. That is precisely what Iqbal’s poetry was and is – timely and timeless. Every passing day just adds to the relevance, vitality and verit...

Critical pedagogy (CP) in the context of Pakistan is of central significance, for it is a behavior which links classroom teaching to broader socio-cultural context. It helps develop critical consciousness in students through education. Critical consciousness is required to resist oppression against commonly approved dogmatic beliefs prevailed in a...

Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Fārābī (d. 339/950), a renowned Muslim philosopher, logician, and a polymath, is relatively lesser known for his contribution to the study of language, and most of his introductions are based on his politico-philosophical writings. The present paper seeks to throw light on Fārābī's contribution to linguistics and cr...

Abū Naṣr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Fārābī (d. 339/950), a renowned Muslim philosopher, logician, and a polymath, is relatively lesser known for his contribution to the study of language, and most of his introductions are based on his politico-philosophical writings. The present paper seeks to throw light on Fārābī's contribution to linguistics and cr...

The paper looks into the possibilities as well as challenges of moving the translation pedagogy in Pakistan away from its traditional methodological stasis and putting it on more self-reflective and communicative grounds. The researchers advance a critique of the mainstream translation teaching in Pakistan and, alternatively, propose what they call...

This paper explores the use of linguistic and conceptual metaphors employed to describe the material and economic aspects in the discourses centered on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Multiple metaphors are found in the data which are examined through a corpus analysis. The cognitive linguistics provides the background to this study wh...

Today one of the most disconcerting questions confronting the postcolonial world is whether its political liberation led to its linguistic liberation as well, and, if not, why not? This larger concern, however, with reference to Pakistani literature, leads to two subsidiary questions: first, how to define Pakistani literature and, second, who stand...

Taking insight from Even-Zohar's polysystem theory, the paper looks into the ways in which the politics of Anglo-American canonical dominance influences English-Urdu/Urdu-English translation practices. The influence of this dominance has been shown to exist in a wide variety of forms ranging from marginalization to outright obliteration of Urdu not...

The article deals with Muslim theolinguistic attitudes towards and conventional Islamic protocols of publishing Qur'anic translation. Though considerable amount of research has been done on the issue of (im)permissibility of translating the Holy Qur'an, not much attention has been paid to Muslim theological positions on the precise modes of publish...

Great poets, artists and writers have always been evoking a feel of transcendence and an urge for transformation in humans, and thereby alleviating a ubiquitous sense of anguish and unremitting stasis which has been a nightmare for mankind. This study critiques some of the trends in the contemporary art which sometimes tend to celebrate despondency...

Let it be said at the outset that this book is primarily for the researchers and academicians who are interested to know the intricate power play and subtle workings of translation and its immense potential to re-create the source text in its own image. Located in the Foucauldian perspective, the book mildly subscribes to the idea that there is no...

The Holy Quran is the supreme canonical text of Islam and one of the most widely read scriptures of the world with extraordinarily far-reaching religious, cultural, historical and sociological implications. In one way or another, it exerts its influence on 1.5 billion Muslims, i.e. about 25% of world population. Since its revelation, it has been su...

In Pakistan, while some theoretical and critical attention has been paid to the politics of translation, no serious research has so far been done on the politics of transliteration. The present study aims at remedying this critical lacuna by centering its attention on the Roman transliteration of the movie posters. Roman Urdu is fast taking over ac...

In spite of the fact that ours is a world of immigration, deepening ethnic textures, globalization, transnational histories, ethnolinguistic diversity, socioeconomic rivalries, and intercultural complexities, the role and significance of bilingual and multicultural education are far from being adequately realized. These demographic imperatives and...

Assessment in Second Language (SL) teaching is of vital importance in the broader praxis of applied linguistics. Even within the framework of assessment in SL teaching, the assessment of testing practices for essay writing is particularly significant as it not only indicates/measures the overall efficacy of the undergraduate programme, but also hol...

The malaise of Islamophobia has wide-ranging symptoms and calls for a sustained critical response. Islamophobic ideologies seem to have been operating on the assumption that Muslim societies suffer from some kind of cultural lacuna which eventually prevent them from 'progress' and increasingly draw them to violent and reactionary modes of resistanc...

Writing a thesis efficiently in an educational setting for attaining an academic degree is a hard task particularly at the graduate level since students at this stage happen to be novice researchers. As thesis writing is a special genre of writing having its own mechanics, conventions and norms, the graduate students have to really battle in order...

Writing a thesis efficiently in an educational setting for attaining an academic degree is a hard task particularly at the graduate level since the students at this stage happen to be novice researchers. As thesis writing is a special genre of writing having its own mechanics, conventions and norms, the graduate students have to really battle in or...

The comprehension of the message of the Holy Qur’ān is obligatory for the whole of humanity which is revealed in the Arabic language. Scholars all over the world Muslim as well as non-Muslim have devoted their best efforts to translate the word of Allah Almighty in different languages of the world, although absolute translation is not possible. The...

Stereotyping transgender people in media, all over the world, is more of a norm than an exception. Reviewing the Pakistani media archives, one gets the impression that, though over the past few decades some progress has been made, still there are many challenges to cope with in order to bring about a fairer and more balanced portrayal of the Pakist...

The paper proposes the integration of Cognitive Strategy Instruction (CSI) in the ELT practices in Pakistan at secondary level. The researchers have sought to make a case as to how the teaching of thinking can be made an integral part of ELT in Pakistan at school level. From the perspective of cognitive pedagogy, a thorough critique of the National...

In the present world of globalization, the question of identity has assumed new and critical dimensions. In this paper I have explored the theme of identity with reference to postcolonial South Asian literature. The notion of identity has been critically investigated across a variety of perspectives such as psychological, historical, sociological a...

In this paper, the researchers make a contrapuntal reading of Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) with reference to a narrativity of power which characterized the British colonial Raj in India. The purpose is to reground critical understanding of colonial literary discourses as a corrective to widespread apolitical readings of the imperial literary te...

The paper aims at elucidating the essential link between teaching and thinking. It investigates the different dimensions of thinking and their relevance to teaching. The separation of mind and body and its potential for making our thinking a mere mechanical process of trial and error has been discussed in depth. The researcher has tried to explicat...

Under the rubric of postmodern art, a conglomeration of theories emerged since the beginning of the twentieth century-dadaism (later, neo-dadaism), conceptual art, lowbrow art, installation art, pop art, telematic art, digital art and so on. Despite this plethora of theories in an information-flooded age, of late, the contemporary world of art seem...

The paper, situated at the intersection of translation studies, cultural studies and postcolonialism, seeks to contribute to the theory of translation with reference to the power politics of the target texts. The possibility and inevitability of translation is one of the most evident characteristics of our communication. This possibility and inevit...

The researcher has explored the elements of domestication in Kiernan’s translation of Iqbal. The study has established the presence of highly structured and complex domestication in Kiernan’s translation. Domestication is a translation strategy which seeks to obliterate the linguistic and cultural identity of the source text and re-writes it in lin...

Today we are living in an age when science has had a profound effect on our thinking and behaviour. Almost every sphere of our life has been affected by science to such an extent that we have developed a mistrust of all that is not part of science. Scientific spirit has come to characterise and almost determine our mental attitudes. Thanks to this...

The phenomenon of change is well established in language. Historical linguistics seeks to understand the cultural and social forces that cause regional varieties to develop into separate languages. It addresses how, over the course of time, various dialects and varieties branch off only to become entirely new languages. This development process of...