2023

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    DEVELOPING COMPUTER ASSISTED READING MATERIALS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH TO PAKISTANI MAINSTREAM SCHOOL DYSLEXIC STUDENTS OF ELEMENTARY LEVEL
    (UMT, Lahore, 2023) MUHAMMAD ASIF
    The present study aims to develop and gauge the impact of indigenously developed computer assisted reading materials, based on the reading problems, reading needs and effective teaching strategies as perceived by the English language teachers and guardians of Pakistani mainstream school dyslexic students, on their English language performance. Four lessons from Punjab Textbook Board‘s English of class VI were purposively selected and the materials were developed under the guidance of Mayer (2005)‘s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. Reading disability checklist was used for the screening of dyslexic students and the purposively selected thirty students were further divided in two (control and experimental) groups homogenously. The control group continued learning through conventional methodology whereas the experimental group was taught through these materials for six weeks.
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    AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION OF CARTOONS AND THEIR LEXICAL RECEPTION FOR ETHNOLINGUISTIC IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION BY URDUENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN
    (UMT, Lahore, 2023) AYESHA SADDIQA
    The young Punjabi speech community in urban areas of Pakistani Punjab seems to be shifting towards Urdu and/or English (the two “prestigious” and official languages), while stigmatizing its own language. This language attitude has ultimately resulted in language shift, and eventually provokes identity displacement, in many ways. To address this issue, the present study carried out an audiovisual translation of cartoons in the Punjabi language to motivate and influence Generation Z (7-10 years old) to learn and identify with their mother tongue (Punjabi). To do so, the data was collected in three phases. In the first phase, two episodes of cartoons were translated, adapted, and dubbed using Giordano’s (2016) theoretical framework of audiovisual translation. In the second phase, quantitative data was collected through picture naming and translation tasks to investigate the potential lexical reception of the Punjabi audiovisual translation of cartoons among the children.
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    Narratives Influencing Career Paths of the Female Youth in District Kasur A Socio-Cognitive Linguistic Study
    (UMT, Lahore, 2023) AMNA IQBAL
    The study aims to connect language, perception and career choice. It examines linguistic interaction concerning career selection and its possible impact on female adolescents’ academic preferences and aspirations. It also explores inter/intra narrative discursivity and develops a narrative corpus on young women’s career choices in small towns.The analysis of this study focuses on the career choice narratives as well as their possible effect on female adolescents and on their career constructs, academic preferences and aims in the Kasur district. Since language structure is vital to the system of interaction (Giddens, 1984), this study relies on the Cognitive linguistic approach to CDA (Hart, 2014) in order to examine how linguistic manifestations conjure image schemas to entice female students’ “career self-efficacy beliefs, outcome expectations and personal goals”. Thus, conjoins language, perception, and career choice.
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    FORENSIC LINGUISTICS: DECODING MAJOR THEMES OF LEGALESE AND ITS PROSPECTS IN PAKISTAN
    (UMT, Lahore, 2023) Rehana Yasmin Anjum
    Law is a code. It shapes life of the people through its power which is exercised through language in the courts. The language of law is called legalese which is a complex code both as a jargon as well as a register. Linguists, the language experts are of a great help to understand this complex code therefore they are working as professional experts all over the world. They are well versed with the knowledge of Linguistics therefore they offer expert opinion at different stages of legal process such as during the investigation, trial, and adjudication at different law institutions. They offer help in investigation in traditional as well as in non-traditional ways of investigation.. This study aims at empowering people with the knowledge of language used in legal conditions, which is called Forensic Linguistics. This research undertakes to highlight the multifaceted importance of Forensic Linguistics as a subject, as a discipline and a forensic linguist as an expert exploring legalese with the help of legal corpora in Pakistan.
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    A LEXICO-COGNITIVE ACCOUNT OF MIRATIVITY IN URDU
    (UMT, Lahore, 2023) JABIR HUSSAIN
    Languages vary in the use of grammatical categories as well as strategies to realize meaning categories. Languages having no grammatical markers use different strategies, that is, they use available forms to encode meanings other than the prototypical ones. In terms of the semantics of understanding a hearer constructs for the text that a speaker produces, the question arises as to how the hearer constructs the situated meaning evoked through linguistic strategies rather than grammatical categories. The present study seeks to characterize explicitly the strategic realization of mirativity as a semantic category, with an empirical focus on Urdu language which, in the absence of morphological marking, employs various strategies for mirative meaning. The study concerns clause types and addresses two research questions: (a) How do declaratives become miratives? and (b) How do interrogatives become miratives? The questions aim to elaborate the semantic composition which enables hearer to suspend the basic communicative functions of clause types and process them as linguistic strategies to reach informational characterization peculiar to miratives.
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    Linguistic Investigation of Gendered Practices A Case of ViolenceHarassment Complaints Registered in Lahore
    (UMT, Lahore, 2023) Umara Shaheen
    The study investigates the lexico-grammatical choices made in harassment and domestic violence complaints submitted to the Punjab Commission on the Status of Women and four police stations in Lahore in 2017-2018. The study draws on Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (Lazar, 2007) to reveal sociocultural ideologies and the victimization of women. It examines the complex interplay of gender and power relations articulated through linguistic choices in the form of culturally informed metaphors, extended metaphors, similes, adjectives, and adverbs. These linguistic features are embedded in the grammatical structures and analyzed through transitivity, mood, and modality. The research also examines move structure (Al-Momani, 2014) and the persuasive strategies (Al Momani, 2014; McCreaddie et al. (2018) used to legitimize complaints. The results illustrate how the complaints reflected asymmetric gendered practices which are endemic in a deeply entrenched patriarchal society such as Pakistan's, where violence against women is often rationalized and normalized, discouraging women from reporting it.