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Item DECONSTRUCTION OF BABA BULLEH SHAH’S SUFI NARRATIVES(UMT, Lahore, 2021) Priya AnwarThis study explores Baba Bulleh Shah’s narratives from the genre of Punjabi Sufi poetry called the k𝑎fi یَََکِ . Sixteen k𝑎fis یَََ یَََکِ are interpreted through Jacque Derrida’s framework of deconstruction. Ten theological deconstruction elements are considered e.g., negative theology, La Diff𝑒́rance and sous rature to name a few. These elements are associated with twenty linguistic patterns like epanorthosis, tautology, and personification, etc., discovered in the k𝑎fis یَََ یَََکِ to compare the philosophies of Derrida and Bulleh Shah. Thematic analysis with three stages of coding: In vivo, descriptive and value coding has been used to find themes and subthemes in the selected k 𝑎 fis. These themes derived through linguistic patterns are then interpreted for compatibility, under compatibility, and over compatibility with Derrida’s deconstruction elements to develop an indigenous deconstruction model.Item SEMIOTICS OF HONOUR KILLING AND GENDER REPRESENTATION IN PAKISTANI PAINTINGS(UMT, Lahore, 2021) Mehvish Riaz,Understanding the ideological implications of patriarchal norms of honour and the construction of social meanings related to gender by studying the authenticity of discursive representations is essential for foregrounding Pakistani social realities to those inside or outside the culturescape. The study, therefore, examines how gender is represented through visual signs in the paintings on honour killing, how social structures gain meaning on getting painted, how power dynamics work in the so-called traditional or patriarchal societies, and if and how these semiotic constructions represent, underrepresent, or misrepresent Pakistani context. The grammar of the visual design of forty paintings on honour killing, painted by male and female Pakistani painters belonging to different areas of Pakistan, have been qualitatively studied in the light of the theoretical understanding of ideational, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions suggested by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006), and the politics of representation suggested by Hutcheon (1989). To check the authenticity and cultural relevance of the representations, the findings gathered through the analysis of the paintings have further been verified by interviewing twenty teachers/visual artists teaching at Government College University, Lahore, National College of Arts, Lahore, University of the Punjab, and Beaconhouse National University, Lahore.Item SOCIOLINGUISTIC DYNAMICS OF GENDERED COURTROOM NARRATIVES IN THE PROCEEDING AND DECISION OF MURDER TRIAL CASES IN PAKISTAN(UMT, Lahore, 2021) IRAM AMJADThis study explores the discursive strategies and the linguistic choices used to negotiate and legitimate the gendered narratives by solicitors and judges in Pakistan's district and session courts. Fifteen murder trial arbitrations of these courts from the major cities of Punjab: Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, and Bahawalpur were selected and analyzed. The thematic network of Wodak's (2001) Discourse Historical Approach and Shi-xu's (2005) Sociocultural Communication Approach (SCA) were taken as a theoretical lens to interpret how far the narratives of solicitors and judges were motivated by cultural dynamics. The data reveals that the solicitors and the judges constructed women's socio-legal identity, such as weak and submissive, caregivers, and respectable. Furthermore, they produced tethered sociocultural narratives that favor women in the legal discourses in many ways.