This study explores the phenomenon of tone and its acoustic correlates in Punjabi by means of acoustic and statistical investigation. Tone is considered to be a phonemic unit along with vowels and can ... Read More
Every new theatre performance is primarily an experiment with its respective audience. The greater the audience interactivity in the theatrical space, the greater is its worth in terms of leaving an ... Read More
Lexical bundles are word structures which occur together more often than expected. The current study aimed to explore lexical bundles in a corpus of Pakistani doctoral dissertatians. For this purpose ... Read More
This paper attempts to focus on the necessity of re-appraising the ’close reading' to investigate the literary texts. The study, being qualitative in nature, uses historical analysis as a methodology ... Read More
The present study focuses an the status of the Punjabi language in Pakistan using the conceptual framework ofLabov (2006). The researchers intended to find out if Punjabi is used covertly or overtly a ... Read More
This article explores the feature of aspiration in Urdu voiceless and voiced plosives /ph, bh, th, dh, kh, gh/ from the perspective of three variables i.e., gender, Ll and VOT. It attempts to investi ... Read More
Writing a thesis efficiently in an educational setting for attaining an academic degree is a hard task particularly at the graduate level since students at this stage happen to be novice researchers. ... Read More
The advancement in culture has made ’Identity’ and its representation a complex phenomenon that is not static rather it has become more fiuid and arbitrary. Literature has always given vent to human e ... Read More
This study analyses plurilingual practices in a classroom where Urdu and English are the preferred languages. In order to explare this phenomenan, a three dimensianal model of language variation has b ... Read More
This article aims to explore the way/s English consonant sounds are produced hy the Yousafzai Pashto speaking people of Pakistan. Language changes horizontally (regionally) and (vertically) socially i ... Read More
Letters to the Editor (LTE) is an important forum for puhlic interaction in the print media. It is considered as a source of informing opinion of the public it represents and serves. Being a medium to ... Read More
In this paper, discursive choices made by constructive patriots of Pakistan which serve to construct and project their identity(ies) as moderate nationalists are examined. In doing so, this study deta ... Read More
This paper reads the dominant leitmotif of Mohsin Hamid’s latest novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013) as a subversion of hoth the phenomena of colonialism and imperialism. Besides traci ... Read More
This paper reports on an investigation into the relationship between the reading performance and metacognitive awareness and strategy use of university level ESL students. The participants comprised o ... Read More
This paper attempts at describing the syllable structure in Mahbashi Yemeni Arabic. Mahbashi Yemeni Arabic (MYA) is one of the neglected Yemeni Arabic varieties. The study shows that MYA exhibits ten ... Read More
This study describes the consonantal and vocalic features of Hindko spoken in Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa, Pakistan. The data were collected from twelve native speakers. First, Hindko phonemic inventory was ... Read More
The urban space is exploited by the capitalist as a commodity to propagate the interests of capital accumulation. By controlling the means of production of space, capital generates a new urban class; ... Read More
Feminist beauty practices occupy an important place in the contemporary world, as it is one of the greatest source of business and profit for the leading international brands. Contrary to the general ... Read More
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the phenomenon of monophthongization, whereby a diphthong is changed into a long monophthong. As established by Yoda (2005), Gaber (2012), Elramli (2013), and ... Read More
The present qualitative study reviews Helen Keller’s triumphing over her deafness and blindness through her fairly successful acquisition of language, growth of communicative competence and the repres ... Read More
One of the central issues in the field of SLA has been the study of the unconscious mental representations in the interlanguage grammars of L2 learners and the availability of UG to adult L2 learners ... Read More
The study is aimed at observing the effect of consistency of input on the acquisition of English short vowels regarding jaw opening (correlated with F1), tongue fronting (correlated with F2) and Dur ... Read More
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