Browsing by Author "Rabia Sohail"

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    A SHORT FILM “HULM”
    (UMT.Lahore, 2024) Rabia Sohail
    "Hulm" is a film that highlights strength, willpower, and pursuing aspirations in spite of social pressures and cultural legacy. The film portrays the journey of a young girl who struggles with the harsh realities of restricted prospects and deeply rooted social customs in a society where opportunities are limited. The movie tells a story of courage, hope, and self-discovery through the protagonist's constant dedication and sheer willpower.The protagonist faces both internal and external difficulties as she makes her way through the maze of barriers, finally setting out on a transforming journey.
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    Co-relational study of the extent of interinsic/extrinsic motivation to code-switching on facebook
    (University of Management and Technology, 2014) Rabia Sohail
    This study is based on a fast factor of language change namely Code-Switching the people who switch code, are divided on the basis of their intrinsic or extrinsic motivational scores. This division helps in recognizing the direct agents of language change. It also helps in identifying people’s behavior towards language on the basis of their motivational pattern. The purpose of this study is to identify the people’s attitude towards code-switching by first measuring their motivational type and score and then analyzing their data from Facebook. 30 intrinsically and extrinsically motivated people of society of age from 15 to 40 years are selected through convenient sampling. Their motivation level is estimated through a specifically designed questionnaire. Along with Facebook data a questionnaire has served the purpose of measuring the participants’ motivation level. To co-relate these two variables of motivation and code switching, the scores were compared and co-relational coefficient was calculated. The results show that higher level of motivation; extrinsic or intrinsic shows least Code switching as correlation was found in both groups. Further examination revealed that intrinsically motivated participants show uniform behavior of least code switching and more use of English with the higher score of motivation whereas in extrinsically motivated group this trend is not clear as there are participants who exhibit varied responses. The participants who are motivated in both ways who have no clear distinctive motivational behavior are usually undecided and they do more code switching. Moreover female participants are more intrinsically motivated than male participants. The co-relational coefficient shows that the study was successful in finding a relation between the two variables.
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    Decoding political perspective
    (UMT Lahore, 2023) Rabia Sohail
    This study investigates the socio-semiotic evaluation of political illustrations which portray political and social themes within the editorials of Pakistani English newspapers. Political cartoons have ability to say about crucial facts that could be much difficult to say in words due to some political pressure. This is the easiest way to highlight the facts in a light and humorous tone. It helps the people to understand all scenarios about social, political and economical issues of the country or world. These are very effective and powerful tool. A political cartoon is a cartoon that makes a point about a political issue or event. In order to evaluate the significance of cartooning in mass media and the relationship between cartoons and politics in the perspective of the Press. The following are the main steps in a hypothesis: To determine the cartooning style employed by the Pakistani Press. To identify the tools used by a cartoonists which make the caricatures attractive. To study about the signs and symbols in political cartoons to know about most highlighted issues by caricatures. To understand the use of colors in cartoons. To know about the characters, a cartoonist used to portray. Three newspapers were selected for this research due their higher circulation in Pakistan. The newspapers were, The Dawn, The Nation and Daily Times. All the selected cartoons were analyzed quantitatively. This research will help to find out that how a cartoonist uses color technique? Which are the most highlighted issue and how a cartoonist use different tools to portray his specific character? This study employs qualitative methods to analyze political visual discourse. In the examination of cartoons, several methodologies and theoretical structures can be used. Linguistic, pragmatic, semantic, psycholinguistic, and semiotic techniques are among them. This research takes a semiotic approach. Semiotics is defined as "a philosophical approach that strives to interpret communication in terms of their signs and symbolism patterns."(Eco, 1986). Researcher has used Barthes approach in this study.
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    INVESTIGATING THE VERBAL CODES FOR FEMALE OBJECTIFICATION IN PAKISTANI URDU FILMS
    (UMT, Lahore, 2024) Rabia Sohail
    Cinematic language in Pakistan is culturally encoded with stereotyping notions and norms about women. Fewer studies have explored female objectification through a linguistic lens. So, this study looks for linguistic patterns to conceptualize female objectification. In doing so, Papdaki‟s Objectification Theory, Gambier‟s Verbal Codes, and Searle‟s Illocutionary Speech Acts are used as conceptual frameworks to seek commonly emerging categories and themes in the data. The data were collected in three phases. In the first phase, the period was finalized based on Erum Hafeez's era-wise demarcation of Urdu films from 1957 to 2019. In the second phase, the clusters of each year‟s most successful films were selected based on the reviews of Pakistan film magazine. In the third phase, six films, such as Arman, Anmol, Aina, Inteha, Koi tuj sa kahan, and Bol, were shortlisted for analysis.