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Item A LEXICAL ANALYSIS OF PUNJAB CURRICULUM AND TEXTBOOK BOARD’S ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOKS OF GRADE 1 TO 6(UMT, Lahore, 2022) Muhammad Umer AzimEnglish language in the context of Pakistan is very important. Government of Pakistan is trying hard to improve the standard of English by taking steps like; teaching English from Grade 1, training teachers, providing free English textbooks, revising textbooks etc. These textbooks are extremely important in the context of English language teaching in Pakistan because they are the only source of exposure to more than 7.6 million (2018, School Education Official Website) students studying in public sector schools. These textbooks need to be evaluated thoroughly for their effectiveness. This evaluation can consider different linguistic aspects. The recent interest in vocabulary teaching brought it to the centre stage of the language teaching process. The researchers established a strong relationship between vocabulary acquisition and language acquisition among language learners (Hazenberg & Hulstijn 1996, Hu & Nation 2000, Lessard 2013).Item A LINGUISTIC PROJECTION OF PAKISTAN’S NATIONAL IDENTITY AS REPRESENTED IN THE PRINT MEDIA AND ITS IMPACT ON MILLENNIALS(UMT, Lahore, 2022) FAIQA ABDUL KHALIQThis study is theoretically comprised and has empirically analysed how the national identity of Pakistan is critically projected in the Pakistani print media which has left a negative impact on Pakistani millennials. The previous literature on national identity of Pakistan is dominated by religious, linguistic and ethnic studies. The present study explores the linguistic projections used in the print media to project national identity of Pakistan. The oscillating images used to represent the national identity of Pakistan display the hegemonic discourse used by Pakistan’s print media to malign the national identity over the decade from 2007-2017. To conceptualise the critical national identity, the theoretical framework is based on Anderson’s (1991) Imagined Communities. A mix method approach is adopted which comprised of corpus analysis of opinion articles, sentiment analysis of blogs and a survey.Item MORPHO SYNTACTIC INFLUENCE OF L1 (PUNJABI) ON L2 (ENGLISH) IN ESL CLASSROOM IN PUNJAB(UMT, Lahore, 2022) Sarwar KhanThe present Study investigates the Morpho Syntactic influence of LI (Punjabi) in the learning of L2 (English) as second language in ESL classroom in Punjab. It also focuses on the different types of influences at Morpho Syntactic level, the graduate learners show while acquiring L2. It further focuses out the impacts of cross linguistic influence at Morpho Syntactic level i.e. at structural level, prepositional level, clause level, and influence at subject- verb agreement, noun, pronoun, article, adverb, conjunction level and at syntactic level. Moreover, it explores the first language interference in the formation of syntactic patterns of target language. The study also discovers hegemonious hold of mother language in the making of morphological formations of source language. Cross linguistic influence is a major factor in the field of second language acquisition. It has many serious side effects on the process of learning of target language.Item THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POWER, IDEOLOGY AND GENDER REPRESENTATION IN HILLARY CLINTON’S SELECTED DISCOURSES(UMT, Lahore, 2022) Safina KanwalFoucault’s theory of power and discourse has opened new horizons in the various fields of linguistics. Discourse is a potent tool for exerting power (Foucault, 1998). Critical discourse analysis (CDA) reveals the ways by which discourse is manipulated for the construction of various issues such as identity, ethnicity, ideology, cultural differences and gender. The most wide-ranging and most influential work in CDA is of Norman Fairclough. He takes language as a social practice through which power and ideology are maintained and challenged.The present doctoral dissertation intends to investigate Hillary Clinton’s political discourses in terms of her tactical use of discourse to gain power, to build her gender identity and to depict her political ideology. The study aims to analyze the political speeches of Hillary Clinton to understand the role of discourse in gaining power and also its role in the representation of female gender.Item DYNAMICS OF WEBLOGS AS HETEROTOPIAN SPACES THROUGH DISCOURSE VIRTUAL APPROACH IDENTITY FORMATION OF PAKISTANI FEMALE BLOGGERS(UMT, Lahore, 2022) TABASSUM SABAWithin the domain of the cyber world, this research discusses Weblogs as heterotopias. Heterotopias, in today’s world, are viewed in terms of different spatial fields which formulate alternative spaces or an ‘other’ space and a world that hinges on constant friction between the real and the unreal. As suggested by Foucault (1986), they are of two types – heterotopias of deviation and of crisis. Taking these ideas further, some researches refer to the internet and Facebook as emerging heterotopias (Sherman, 1998; Rymarczuk & Derksen 2014; Hope, 2016). This research interrogates how Pakistani female bloggers construct their own world which is different from their real spatio-geographical location. It also aims to scrutinize how this other world helps the females in (re) constructing their online identity, which may be different from their offline, real identity. The study also investigates how the weblogs offer hyper freedom to Pakistani female bloggers for identity formation through linguistic meansItem LANGUAGE CONTACT AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION A STUDY OF PASHTO COMMUNITY IN LAHORE(UMT, Lahore, 2022) AMINA KHALIDThis study examines how the speakers of the migrant Pashto community construct their identity in the multilingual settings of Lahore. The purpose is to identify and investigate the linguistic patterns that emerge in the speech of the migrant Pashto speakers due to their contact with other languages such as Urdu, English, and Punjabi in the multilingual environment. This study also explores the linguistic interactions of the migrant Pashto speakers through which they form their micro and macro identities. The research looks into the language practices, beliefs, and management adopted by the speakers of the migrant Pashto community. The mixed-methods research has been used to investigate the research problem.Item A MORPHOSYNTACTIC DESCRIPTION OF DHANI(UMT, Lahore, 2022) WASIM HASANThis study aims to provide a morphosyntactic description of Dhani, a dialect of Punjabi language spoken in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Dhani is spoken in parts of the Rawalpindi Division (Pothohar Plateau), Chakwal, and southern parts of Jhelum and Attock Districts. The study is a field research. Data was collected from a sample of sixty Dhani speakers from three tehsils viz. Chakwal, Kallar Kahar and Choa Saiden Shah of Chakwal district, belonging to different social, regional and educational backgroundsselected through purposive sampling technique. Data was collected through text and discourse centered approach, communicative focus group discussions (FGDs) and direct elicitations which were recorded with the help of four native research assistants (RAs).Item PHONEMIC DESCRIPTION AND CODIFICATION OF SHAHPURI WITH REFERENCE TO MAJHI - A DIALECT OF THE PUNJABI LANGUAGE(UMT, Lahore, 2022) Muhammad Nadeem ChohanPunjabi, a language that belongs to the Indo-Aryan family of languages, is spoken in various nations around the globe, especially Pakistan and its province Punjab and Indian Panjab. It manifests itself through various dialects based on diversified geographical areas, clans, and contiguous dialects. The importance of Punjabi cannot be denied being the 10th most widely used language globally (Ghai & Singh, 2013). According to Ethnologue (2020), the number of Punjabi speakers is 125,326,840. In Pakistan, it is the language of the majority of the people residing in the most populous province of Pakistan, Punjab. In India, it is one of the 22 languages with official status. Unfortunately, no considerable work has been done on the phonology of its dialects.