This research is a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Figurative language in Pakistani English Newspapers. A corpus has been compiled from four Newspapers: Dawn, The News, Nation and Express Tribune on the basis best readership across country. To extract figures speech, wordlists comprised various speech work previous researchers. Data analyzed Richardson (2007) model Newspaper evaluation through Analysis. highlights implicit function figurative It explores how used communicating ideas to...

The present paper examines the adaptation of English loanwords in Punjabi and Urdu particularly substitution vowels. It is a comparative study vowel which concludes that both recipient languages reshape vowels to closest available their phonemic inventories. For purpose determining vowels, two corpora have been used: questionnaire-based corpus (Hussain, 2011), spoken based on dramas, films, real life conversations (Mahmood et al., 2011). monophthongs, diphthongs triphthongs are selected for...

Metadiscourse involves the interaction between reader and writer of text in overall process communication. not only guides to understand primary message through structure content, but also it intimates with particular slants perspectives discourse. The students have master use their writings. purpose this study is examine distribution frequency features used by Pakistani undergraduate argumentative essays analyze roles played these features. Moreover, research explores extent appropriateness...

The purpose of the present research is to analyse role linguistic devices which writer has used represent ethnicity in novel , Kite Runner . was conducted primarily accordance with analytic tools CDA suggested by Huckin. McGregor also them his research. This mainly a qualitative and quantitative methodology Corpus linguistics been as supplement. results reveal that employed manipulation powerful instrument ethnicity. He specific devices, like foregrounding, backgrounding, presupposition,...

This research is a comparative study of Newsworthiness (importance news items) in English and Urdu newspapers. qualitative that explores the impact placement items The data has been collected from three their counterpart newspapers same groups. different will help to know about policies ideologies investigates how readership influences newsworthiness items. language studied discover relation between used inter intra newspaper results are not only interpreted on basis frequencies but also...

The present study investigates the route of English words borrowed into Punjabi via Urdu.Differences and similarities between bilingual monolingual speakers have been highlighted to determine borrowing.The is based on two corpora: a corpus 292 loanwords in Punjabi; 421 loans Urdu.Metathesis, aphaeresis, substitution consonants are some adaptation strategies basis which we differentiate output forms speakers.

This study is a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Pakistani and Indian budget speeches. Two specialized corpora, Budget Speeches (PBS) (IBS), from 2009 to 2012 both the countries were compiled. research explored hidden meanings through Parts Speech (POS) which conveyed in These POS limited nouns (singular plural), pronouns, adjectives (general), verbs (present/past/modal). develops insight that declared having multiple behind statement. The concludes government declares some similarities...

The present study explores the politeness strategies used in Pakistani business letters written English. It benefits from both qualitative and quantitative approaches of research. A specialized corpus, ‘Pakistani Business English Letters’ (PBEL), has been compiled correspondence. PBEL consists 1000 collected government semi-government institutes e.g. banks, universities, private companies, factories etc 2011. This investigates differences between American ways using external parts Opening...

The words of poetry not only speak their ideology but also carve pictures in the minds readers. I chose this poem, ‘Wedding Flood’ for many reasons: it certainly manifests Pakistani culture its structure speaks complex narrative ingenuity, syntactic and phonological parallelism, unique lexical semantic features how all these collectively enhance cultural aspect poem. This research article tries to analyze poem order have a deeper understanding content form

In a country like Pakistan, Written examination is conventional tool to evaluate the student’s performance in any subject area, where required cognitive ability defined through items such as learning outcomes.So system, students’ depends very much on questions asked written question papers. A good and reasonable paper must, therefore, consist of various difficulty levels accommodate different capabilities students. this work, level each determined from criteria keyword/s found question. The...

In this study, native limestone from the Swat area of Pakistan was used for synthesis calcium propionate. The powdered allowed to react with propionic acid and effect parameters, that is, particle size (50, 100, 150, 200 mesh), (10, 15, 30 %), solid-liquid ratio (0.1:10, 0.12:1, 0.14:1, 0.16:1), reaction time (1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 hours) temperature (60, 80, 90, 100 °C) on percentage yield purity propionate studied. results showed optimum parameters were mesh size, 15% concentration, 0.14:1 ratio,...

The paper intends to look into the prescribed English language syllabus for secondary level in Pakistan. It explores what extent a) serves needs of intended citizenship and b) meets international standards set socially well-equipped students. is required contain basic concepts democratic political ideals help prepare informed citizens promotion democracy creating a culture tolerance. There plethora literature available about purpose education literacy. most important preparation with high...