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    A comparative study of teachers’ and students’ perceptions regarding use of english literature in english language class
    (UMT Lahore, 2009) ABDUL MAJID KHAN RANA
    Most teachers consider literature as an independent subject with no relation with language learning. This view is based on narrow concept of language teaching and learning. There are undeniable benefits that a language learner can gain from the inclusion of literature in language teaching and learning. Language teaching through literature based on the views that literary works can give student intellectual pleasure. It has the power to motivate students to learn a language they might not lean otherwise. Literature is rapidly available and applicable to a wide range of learners. Different genres e.g poetry and fiction are good starting place because the language is more concise, pure, abstract, and beautiful then in drama. Pomes are easily memorized and will encourage student to use and consider the language in unfamiliar ways, and teach beautiful turns of phrase not available in any other text. Literature is intellectually stimulating because it allows a reader to imagine worlds they are not familiar with. In order to understand, the learner will create their vision of what writer is saying. In this sense, the learners becomes performers in the communicative events as they read. Short stories with various themes are also appropriate instructional materials because they are in prose that is close to everyday usage, are of a suitable length, can acquaint students with the variety of themes, and provide models of a variety of language style. This study investigate and analyzed the extant and importance of literary discourse in English language teaching and learning. A 5 point likert scale questionnaire, based on the findings from literature review, was distributed among university students and teacher of elt, literature and linguistics classes to find out their perceptions about using literary text in an English language class. Result of data analysis showed positive attitude and opinion of the respondents towards using literature in language class.
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    A cascross-cultural and sociolinguistic barriers for pakistani students
    (UMT Lahore, 2015) ZAHID ASHRAF
    In the emerging era of globalisation, the role of communication is becoming crucial for the educational institutes. This is however creating challenges for the students coming from diverse cultures for their academic and professional development. Therefore, the aim of the study is to explore those cross-cultural and sociolinguistic barriers that create hindrance in their academic development at higher educational institutions of Pakistan. Focused group discussions of 30 students have been conducted where thematic analysis was used to identify the important themes. The findings show that students from different cultural background face a number of problems such as cultural issues, problems of being native and non-native, problem of adjustment and psychological barriers in this context. It can be said that cross-cultural barriers pose a serious threat to them. But effective policies and better management of diverse intake can address the problems of cross-culture and it is the duty of the teacher to cope with these issues; otherwise, students confront a number of issues in their academic career. Furthermore, the current study will provide a solution to the problems of sociolinguistic and cross-cultural barriers for academicians, students, teachers and top management at the university level.
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    A case study of haryanvi language in pakistan
    (UMT Lahore, 2015) Maryam Aslam
    The purpose of this study is to know the present status of Haryanvi language in Pakistan. Haryanvi speech community migrated from the current state of Haryana, India and settled across various parts of Pakistan in 1947. After the migration, Haryanvi speech community eventually came in contact with various dialects and languages spoken across Pakistan. It seems as Haryanvi has been depleting ever since. There are striking differences in the speed of change across the various linguistic levels, such as phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics. The present study explores intergenerational lexical shift in the Haryanvi language. Labov (1963, 1966) argues that language change can be observed through different age groups. Thus, the Apparent Time Hypothesis was considered for studying intergenerational lexical shift in the Haryanvi language. The data was collected from 60 participants belonging to three different age groups. The three age groups were composed of participants whose ages were between 20-30 years, 40-50 years, and 60-80 years, respectively. All the participants were residents of the province Punjab, which is in a way representative of the target population. A list of items of daily use along with their images was administered to elicit their responses. The study shows that there is more likely a significant lexical shift between 20-30 years old Haryanvi speakers. The second age group (40-50 years) was quite successful to retain some words e.g., Janda, Khat, Chora, Choriand so on. However, those who were between 60-80 years seem true representatives of the Haryanvi language because their responses were correct in all instances presented to them. There is reason to believe that the Haryanvi language would suffer badly after the death of last person in this age group. Nevertheless, with these findings we can safely speculate that the Haryanvi language is endangered.
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    A case study of language development in 0.1-0.9 year old child
    (UMT Lahore, 2015) Naila Shahadat
    The purpose of this study was to observe language development in a child from the birth up to the age of 9 months. The present research focused on the acquisition of human speech sounds by a child, in comparison with non-human sounds. Other than that, the study also tried to explore the effects of audio-visual elements on language development. A newborn baby boy was the subject of the current study. The total observation period of 9 months was broken down into three stages. Each stage comprised of three months of child’s age. The data was collected in the form of audio and video recordings, documents and interviews with family members of the subject. After observing the subject for 9 months, conclusions were drawn and compared with past studies in the same area. A child goes through many human and non-human sounds during his language acquisition period but as devised by Chomsky (2004) that language is innate (Chomsky, 2004), child accepts only human speech signals to acquire language. The research concluded that both sound and image help a child to acquire a language. Individually, they cannot be beneficial in developing language in a child. Language development is a systematic process, which is achieved by a child in the early period of his or her life, no matter child comes across how many human and non-human sounds. It becomes easier for a child when he or she finds pictorial representation of what he or she listen.
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    A case study of linguistic issues faced by transnational students in pakistani universities using interpretative phenomenological analysis
    (UMT Lahore, 2023) SANYA JAVAID
    The study aims the investigation of linguistic issues of transnational students in Pakistani universities and the study employed mixed methodology, conducting interviews and surveys from transnational students in Pakistani universities. The main purpose of the research work is to investigate the current importance of linguistic issues faced by transnational students enrolled in Pakistani Universities by using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The findings of the study show that grammar, vocabulary, language hesitation, second language anxiety and academic styles are the key challenges faced by transnational students. However, efforts from both the individual and management sides are required for managing this issue. Apart from this, the results obtained from the reliability analysis demonstrated that interpretative phenomenological analysis posits a significant impact on transnational students as well as this linguistic issues. Therefore, it is recommended that a transnational student is required to maintain consistency, improve communication and practice all these measures to mitigate the linguistic challenges on them. Also, it is noted that linguistic issues impact the performance of transnational students in Pakistani universities. Ethical Considerations have also been specified for the research so that it would not harm any respondents by any means during and after research.
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    A cognitive narratological study on manto’s selected works
    (UMT.Lahore, 2025) Rimsha Israr
    Saddat Hasan Manto is one of the provocative literary personalities of the 20th century whose writings have incensed society for years. His brutal honesty and mirror-like projection of society without any modification and beautification have always infuriated but also inspired many individuals around the globe. The thematic exploration of scholars related to trauma, psychological complexities, and post-colonial horrors has remained the center of attention for quite some time. However, the stylistics of Manto, who is remembered as one of the greatest writers for decades, remains under-examined. Therefore, with current and recent trends of Cognitive Narratology, this research aims to explore Manto in the dimensions of reader cognition. For this purpose, the research will be conducted via post-classical theorist (Herman, 2003). Various Mind-Modeling Techniques in readers that cooperate with narrative construction deliberately designed by the writer are to be studied under this research. On broader level, this research will investigate that whether the readers of present times with varied socio-political and rather liberal cultural experiences analyze the blunt stories of Manto with an open mind free from societal norms and taboos or the language parameter of the good and evil remain the same even today in the societal lens. As mentioned in the SDG Goals forwarded by United Nations, the 5th and 10th points are of Gender Equality & Reduced Inequalities, which aligns hereby with this research. Saddat Hassan Manto’s work is a true portrait of truth without any strings of political diplomacy. The way he has spoken for women and the horrors of partition, no one has up till now. In current times, where such issues like gender oppression, harassment, rape, abuse etc are still residing in our society, it is a need to bring Manto back and explore that whether he has foreseen the societal rock-bottom. Keywords: Cognitive Narratology, Manto, Mind-Modeling, Interpretation
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    A cognitive sociolinguistic analysis of gender stereotypes in pakistani media language
    (UMT Lahore, 2018) SOBIA RASHID
    Marginalized status of an individual or group is associated with oppression (Purdie-Vaughns & Eibach, 2008), which leads to more ingroup bias (Dasgupta, 2004). However, it is observed that it is not true of Pakistani women who are also considered to be a marginalized group. Pakistani women as an oppressed group are supposed to practice more intra-gender bias, on the contrary according to our hypothesis they deviated from such established norm by practicing less intra-gender bias through their linguistic choices. This study was designed in line of cognitive sociolinguistics to explore the inter/intra-gender bias visible in contemporary mass and social media languages. The study was further informed by the feminist theory of intersectionality in course of investigating the social as well as linguistic deviance practiced by Pakistani women, to outline the possible influence of the patriarchal set up they live in, on their perceptions; which might have caused their intersecting identities (Crenshaw, 1989) to be in a state of flux. It was an attempt towards analysing the lexical variation among men and women and discovering the factors that might cause mechanism of such variation. To explore the correlation of marginalized intersecting identities to lexical choices, a mixed method research had been designed in line of cognitive sociolinguistics. According to this research paradigm lexical variation could be analysed by measuring the speaker’s contextual or sociolinguistic variables in terms of entrenched values as onomasiological salience (Grondelaers, Speelman, & Geeraerts, 2007). The data were collected from opposite editorial sections of three English dailies and Twitter against a case of female social victim, which were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively by employing the technique of content analysis. The process of data collection was impeded by the dearth of female columnists and less visibility of male social victims in mass media. The results suggested that Pakistani women practiced less intra-gender bias by using more biased lexical items for the female victim; which was reflective of their reduced sense of self as marginalized gender with various intersecting identities in a patriarchal social set up which distorted their primary identities. The analysis was a contributory step to study gender stereotypes and intersectional identities and their link to lexical variation from cognitive sociolinguistic perspective.
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    A comparative analysis of male and female child-specialists doctors’ communication with their patients
    (UMT Lahore, 2019) MARIA GONDAL
    Communication plays a significant role when it comes to medical settings because it is only through communication that a doctor and patient become able to develop a mutual interrelationship with one another. The ability of the doctor to successfully cure the disease depends on his/her potential to communicate effectively with the patient. However, the communication of the male and female doctor may vary. Therefore, the present study aims to evaluate communicative style (verbal and non-verbal) of both male and female doctors and focuses on the comparative analysis of their non-verbal interaction with their patients. For this purpose, ethnography methodology is employed to explore the phenomena. The tools of qualitative research such as observation, interviews and field notes are used because the nature of the data demands descriptive analysis. Besides, five male and five female child specialists of Children Hospital of Lahore were chosen as a sample for the study. The findings suggest that male and female doctors depict variation in their communication especially in their non-verbal behavior. Female doctors were more pleasant in their overall communication that male doctors and they are more concerned to create a comfortable environment for their patients to keep them content. The results also implies that male doctors were straightforward in their communication with their patients and use less non-verbal cues and paralinguistic features of communication with their patients.
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    A comparative analysis of metaphorical conceptualization of emotions in selected expressions of english and urdu
    (UMT Lahore, 2023) Khadija Shoukat
    The current thesis focuses on the comparative analysis of the metaphoric conceptualizations of selected emotions e.g., happiness, sadness, fear and anger. The metaphoric conceptualization of emotions is being compared in the selected expressions of English and Urdu languages with an emphasis on the image schemas that serve as the foundation for the concepts that are transferred from source to target domains. The current study additionally explores the sense relations e.g., polysemy, metonymy and meronymy etc., between the source domain words and target domain words. The analysis is based on the fundamental aspects proposed in "Conceptual Metaphor Theory," "Comparison Theory," and "Image Schema Theory" because these theories very effectively explain the complexities of conceptualizing ideas, various facets of sources, targets and the mapping of concepts between them. The collected data consists of 44 English expressions and 44 Urdu expressions, which are selected via simple random sampling. Each expression is categorized under a specific category of metaphoric conceptualization of emotions that have been explored in the current study. All in all, this study might deepen the readers understanding regarding the way speakers metaphorically project abstract concepts to make sense of their experiences that involve emotions including anger, happiness, sadness and fear.
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    A comparative analysis of undergraduate esl learners: student and teacher perspectives on total physical response (tpr) and communicative language learning (cll) methods
    (UMT.Lahore, 2024) AROOBA NAZ
    The study aims to investigate the perceptions of students and teachers related to Total Physical Response (TPR) and Communicative Language Learning (CLL) approaches in teaching English as a Second Language/ Foreign Language at private universities situated in Lahore, Pakistan. Since there are few previous studies of these approaches in this context, the study also tests whether and how they influence language competence, student engagement, and overall learning experiences. This is an important study that helps understand the language learning methods preferred by few students and teachers is necessary to clarify some aspects of ways of teaching English advancement in addition to a continuous search to find approaches more effective. Insights will provide the underpinnings for curricular design, teaching methodologies (e.g. overcrowded classrooms); and resource constraints. The study also looks at using culturally responsive teaching in ESL instruction because of the differing social and cultural backgrounds students come from. TPR excels in vocabulary learning and student motivation by employing physical activities whereas CLL specializes in communicative competence (and fluency) through interactive lesson plan types. Teacher perceptions highlight the challenges to implementing CLL, demonstrating that supportive strategies are important. Through this effort to include those domains, the research seeks a complete picture of how ESL instruction can be better executed. Conclusion: These findings can be used to help tackle the identified challenges and streamline operations for private universities in Lahore.
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    A comparative analysis of us presidential debates 2016 on the use of speech acts and grice maxims by clinton and trump
    (UMT Lahore, 2018) SUMRA FARHEEN
    The language plays an important role in winning the hearts of the people and gaining their support. The political speeches/debates made by various politicians have been analyzed from different perspectives by the researchers at national and international level. In political speeches/debates politicians interact with the audience with the help of language. Language is used by politicians not only as a medium of communication but also as a tool to influence the public. The present research attempts to analyze US presidential debates 2016 made by Hillary Clinton and Donald trump during the US election 2016. The debates have been analyzed within the framework of Searle’s Typology of Speech Acts and Grice Maxims. The data consisted of the answers of the questions asked by both the candidates. Moreover, the questions have been categorized according to the main themes of the debates. The study analyzes the use of speech acts by the candidates in order to make their language more influential and persuasive. They employed assertive, commissive, directive, declarative and expressive speech acts while answering the questions. The study revealed that Trump employed more assertive and directive speech acts as compared to Hillary whereas she employed more commissive speech acts as compared to Trump. The study also revealed that candidates followed/violated maxims of quantity, relevance and manner consciously or unconsciously in order to hide certain information or to show commitment to their words and promises. Trump violated more and followed less number of maxims as compared to Clinton. The employed speech acts and followed/violated maxims by both the candidates have been presented in the form of a table along with each question. The percentages of the employed speech acts and followed/violated maxims have been presented in the form of bar-charts and pi-charts.
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    A comparative critical discourse analysis of honor killing in news headlines of pakistani and indian english language newspaper by using the fairclough three-dimensional model _____________________
    (UMT Lahore, 2020) Ansa Ali
    The term "honor killing" refers to the act of murdering someone because of the shame they have brought upon the family or community. The present study aims to evaluate the impact of the use of linguistic features in headlines of Pakistani and Indian English newspapers on the social and cultural attitudes towards honor killings. Primary objective of this was to identify the differences and similarities in the linguistic features employed in news headlines related to genderstereotypes in the honor killings in Pakistani and Indian English newspapers. The theoretical framework for this study is the Fairclough (1993, 2014) three-dimensional model. Only four foldsof model are used to conduct this research. Pakistani and Indian selected English newspaper are used to collect the data for this study. The data were analyzed through the descriptive analysis to see the similarities and difference in honor killing headlines through linguistic feature. The resultindicated that newspaper are more in favor of women related to honor killing. Further this study can be used see violence against women in the society.
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    A comparative study of death-related euphemistic expressions in english used by native speakers and punjabi l1 speakers
    (UMT Lahore, 2011) Masood Ahmed
    Euphemism is a linguistic lubricant aiming at reducing communicative friction. Some happenings are too sensitive to be expressed without linguistic safeguards i.e. euphemisms. Death is, undoubtedly, one of such happenings which have been taboos since time immemorial. This thesis attempts to make a comparative analysis of the use of death euphemism in English by native English speakers and the Punjabi L1 speakers, well versed in English language. The study also encompasses whether education plays a significant role in the use of euphemistic expressions for death and dying. The hypothesis under investigation is that ‘native English speakers use less euphemistic expressions for death in comparison with Punjabi L1 speakers’. The research is quantitative in approach and descriptive in nature. The population consists of native English speakers across the globe and Punjabi L1 speakers well versed in English language. The sample comprises 34 respondents in each case. The researcher has used random sampling technique. A questionnaire, containing 15 items, has been used to gather data. The study explores that Punjabi L1 speakers, while communicating in English language, are more prone to using euphemistic expressions for death than the native English speakers.
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    A comparative study of deletion of linguistic constituents in punjabi and english clauses
    (UMT Lahore, 2021) Hira Amjad
    This comparative study examines the deletion of linguistic constituents in English and Punjabi Languages. The purpose of this work is to explore the syntactic structures of the Punjabi language. The study investigates the similarities and differences related to a syntactic phenomenon -‘Deletion’ in Punjabi and English clauses. It seems that a lacuna exists for researching thisphenomenon in the Punjabi language and investigating the application of X-Bar theory to thesyntax of the Punjabi language. The overall research method used is Qualitative along with some Quantification. The study sample consists of twenty-one short stories taken from the Punjabi textbooks of the Intermediate level. The X-Bar theory has been applied as the theoretical framework to analyze Punjabi and English clauses for the phenomenon of Deletion. The study reports that all types of deletion i.e. NP deletion, VP deletion, Pronominalization, Conjunction reduction, Imperativisation, and Dative movement/deletion occurs similarly in both languages. However, ‘Comparative deletion’ and ‘Gapping’ could not be figured out in the data observed. The study results can be significant for the Translanguaging practices in ESL classrooms, would be helpful for heritage learners, and for those Punjabi native speakers who overgeneralize the rules of their L1 over L2. The study suggests more research works on the application of other T-rules i.e. Insertion, Substitution, and inversion to Punjabi and other Pakistani regional languages.
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    A comparative study of english and urdu reduplication
    (UMT Lahore, 2019) NOSHEEN ASGHAR
    Reduplication is a microcosm of both morphology and phonology. It has emerged as an area of heightened linguistic interest recently. Reduplication is a morphological process in which words are repeated, also known as the doubling, copying or repetition process. This thesis is a study of reduplication in Urdu in general, and a description of the types of reduplicative processes in Urdu and English. The present study purports to explain and discuss Urdu reduplicatives in the first place, in so doing, it aims to describe the very nature of Urdu reduplicatives, their social and pragmatic significance, their structure in the Urdu language and how are they different or similar to English reduplicatives. The study also exhibits some crosslinguistic features of reduplicatives with a special reference to English reduplication. The research design for this dissertation is based on qualitative framework of research. The study is both descriptive and exploratory in its scope; it encompasses analytical discussions as well. For the purpose of the analysis of Urdu reduplicative constructions, the theoretical framework of Morphological Doubling Theory (MDT) by Inkelas and Zoll (2009) is chosen. The researcher employed collection of words from Urdu and English dictionaries as the main tool for data collection. The findings revealed that Urdu and English both have two major reduplicative processes: total or complete or full-base reduplication and partial reduplication. The results showed that in the category of partial reduplication English and Urdu languages demonstrated variations. Echo reduplication is more prominent in Urdu language, whereas ablaut reduplication is prevalent in English language.
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    A comparative study of gender identity construction in item songs of lollywood and bollywood
    (2022) Hamza Imam
    The illustration of men and women in songs has been under study for the last decade. It is because the songs have the ability to construct and reinforce gender identity when they are exposed to young audiences. It conveys these identities and norms to the adolescents in such a way that they adapt them unconsciously. Past studies have analyzed Lollywood and Bollywood songs separately but did not compare them. The purpose of this study was to find the role of Lollywood and Bollywood, in particular, their item songs, in gender identity construction. Furthermore, the study compared the representations of men and women in the selected item songs of Bollywood and Lollywood which gives insight to the embedded similarities among them. The data analysis involved the thematic analysis of 10 item songs from both the music industries i.e., Lollywood and Bollywood, selected through the purposive sampling technique. The analysis was done according to Braun and Clark's (2013) method of thematic analysis. The results disclosed the several elements of sexist language in the selected item songs that construct gender identity. The major themes which were found in these songs were misogyny, magnification of one-sided love, biasness towards men and women, and stereotypical description of men and women. The findings of this research may help scholars to comprehend different types of sexist element constructing gender; it may provide a guide to lyricists and entertainers to reassess their linguistic choices to eliminate social tussle in terms of gender, and make suggestions to remove this component from the entertainment media.
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    A comparative study of morphological processes in english and pahari languages
    (UMT Lahore, 2022) MISBAH SHABBIR
    This study aims to examine the morphological processes shared by English and Pahari and the implications these shared processes have for language education. The research used a contrastive analysis theory (also known as the "cum contrastive analysis hypothesis"), which is a branch of linguistics concerned with the objective comparison of two or more languages for the purpose of making critical but pedagogical observations about theirsimilarities and differences. Back-formation, blending alternation, affixation, compounding, clipping, coinage, reduplication, acronym, and borrowing are only some of the morphological processes discussed and compared in this descriptive analysis study of the two languages. The studies were conducted using the mainstream Pahari dialect, Kotli. Findings showed that both English and Pahari use some processes to create some words, that affixation is one of the processes found in both languages, and that some of the processes discussed in this study could be found in one and not the other. Morphology, the study of grammatical rules of word structures in any language, operates in both languages with significant areas of difference and similarity. The findings of this study provide Information that can be used as a starting point for further research into the linguistic structures of the English language and the Pahari language. This would also serve as a foundation for comparative morphological research between English and Pahari. Conclusions are formed, and suggestions for addressing the pedagogical issues are provided.
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    A comparative study of pashto and english linguistic taboos
    (UMT Lahore, 2010)
    The present thesis is a comparative study of an ethno-linguistic phenomenon known as 'taboo' in Pashto and English cultures. It is a custom which consists in avoiding mentioning certain words and expressions which is a common practice in more than one society of the world. The stuify has analyzed the nature ofthe approach ofPashto speakers towards some of the well known taboo-words and expressions and has also compared them with English speakers. It is based on data collected through questionnaires, interviews and personal observations. The findings of qualitative data collected through interviews and observations from Pashto speakers were used in support of the quantitative data. Quantitative data were analyzed through the application of statistical software-SPSS. The t-tests revealed that Pashto language is more prone to linguistic taboos than English. Less or no difference was found on the basis of area (rural/urban) in the approach of people of both cultures. Further exploration of the data reveals that almost similar to English, female speakers of Pashto observe their linguistic taboos more strictly than male speakers. The data also shows that the observance of taboos is higher in older age-group than the younger one in Pashto. Due to many reasons the younger generation is less terrified by the linguistic taboos. The present study also confirms the ideas of the previous researchers that these taboos are mostly violated in extreme anger as when one is highly emotional and out of control. On the basis of the pedagogical implications of the study, a dictionary of taboo words in Pashto is recommended.
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    A comparative study of task based approach and traditional approach in english language teaching
    (UMT Lahore, 2017) Nayab Younas
    This study is conducted to examine the usefulness of Task based teaching method in the teaching of English language in government sector colleges of Lahore. Language teaching is never an easy job for English language teachers. The traditional method is still dominating in Pakistani colleges for teaching English and no innovations have been implemented by the educational policy makers and teachers. The traditional method did not provide fruitful results in enhancing reading comprehension skill of the students. The technique is used in this study is experimental and is designed to trace improvement in comprehension and reading skills of low proficient English learners at graduation level. Both pre-test and post-test conducted to measure any improvement in the students’ learning process. The group of sixty is divided into two groups from the local college of Lahore. The Experimental group is given treatment through dynamic intervention comprising of task based lesson plans based activities. The Control group is taught through the traditional method encompassing of Grammar Translation Method. The data collected from the two groups is analyzed using SPSS. The proportional result of both groups (Experimental and Control) illustrated a substantial development in the learning method, comprehension and reading skills of the subjects of the Experimental group. The analysis verifies the suitability of task based teaching approach in an ESL context. The study shows that the constructivism is the effective learning theory in which the TBLT falls should be implemented in colleges. It proves its effectiveness in the enhancement of reading skills of low proficient English language learners.
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    A comparative thematic analysis of pakistani and indian leaders’ speeches at unga
    (UMT.Lahore, 2023) Alveena Fatima
    Word clouds have evident interactive and attractive visuals along with their statistical data. Aesthetic data visualization and knowledge discover interlink to generate interactive and dynamic word cloud which consists of fascinating, textual, visual and statistical data. The purpose of this research is to produce an interactive word cloud or Cirrus following statistical data to preview the text of Pakistani and Indian speeches. The Cirrus tool helps in the identification of specific words that show the main themes of both Pakistani and Indian corpora. Secondly, it investigates different and similar themes in both Pakistani and Indian leaders' speeches. Thirdly, it reveals major overarching themes of both Pakistani and Indian themes. A mixed method approach is used to generate word cloud and statistical data which are further analyzed and its analysis is derived from Rakesh Aggrawal's Knowledge Discovery Theory (KDD) which inquires interesting and new knowledge patterns. This thematic word cloud reaffirms not only the pre-existing themes but also uncovers other groundbreaking themes. Ongoing study reveals that all cited key themes can be easily pinned from both ample Speeches of Pakistan and India with the help of Cirrus tool. The results discovered the dominant themes which have been portrayed in the word cloud for the readers and viewers are "global vision, unraveling Kashmir mosaic, climate fluctuation, terrorism, Islamophobia and poverty alleviation" that have been discovered as a preview. The findings of this study may help scholars to analyse different themes without thorough reading and analyze the data within seconds. They can use this for comparison of different themes and identify the concepts without spending more time. In future, one can use it for vocabulary learning, connotation of words, and word selection.