{"title":"Gender Disparities in Access to Agricultural Modes of Production and Impediments in rural Women Empowerment","authors":"Hira Nasir, Farkhanda Anjum, Kanawal Asghar","doi":"10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)03","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this research is to investigate the intricate relationship between gender inequality and limited access to fundamental agricultural resources such as land, seeds, fertilizer, credit, technology","PeriodicalId":141535,"journal":{"name":"PAKISTAN LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES REVIEW","volume":"8 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140359494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linguistic Landscape Analysis of Shop Sings: A Case Study","authors":"","doi":"10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)42","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":141535,"journal":{"name":"PAKISTAN LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES REVIEW","volume":"40 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140357820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial Manipulation in Karachi: A Postmodern Marxist Study of Hamid’s The Prisoner","authors":"","doi":"10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)29","url":null,"abstract":"Examining Omar Shahid Hamid’s The Prisoner through Postmodern Marxist lens, this research analyzes how Karachi’s city space is being victimized by globalization and capitalism and highlights different ways of Karachiites’ spatial manipulation. Karachi as a metropolitan city, went through fragmentation and discontinuity due to globalization and is being affected by polycentric and kaleidoscopic socio-spatial structure. Postmodernists raise questions upon the idea of utopian city space and about the role of architecture and geography in a person’s life. Based upon arguments by Henri Lefebvre and Edward William Soja, this research substantiates how in The Prisoner , characters are manipulated by their social space and also foregrounds their resistance against this spatial cleansing. The research establishes how the individuality of a person is being victimized by capitalism which ultimately leads to spatial manipulation. Hamid also features how social institutions are becoming major tool for spatial cleansing and causes spatial injustice in a person’s life which is totally a backwash of pre-existing human norms and values","PeriodicalId":141535,"journal":{"name":"PAKISTAN LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES REVIEW","volume":"32 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140358148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-Verbal Communication Through Visual Storytelling: UMBRELLA Animated Short Film","authors":"","doi":"10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":141535,"journal":{"name":"PAKISTAN LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES REVIEW","volume":"33 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140358468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tahir Jahan Khan, Muhammad Shakoor Aamir, Zafar Maqbool Khan
{"title":"Cognitive and Social Factors Influencing L2 Reading Motivation among ESL Students of Pakistan: A Case Study","authors":"Tahir Jahan Khan, Muhammad Shakoor Aamir, Zafar Maqbool Khan","doi":"10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)41","url":null,"abstract":"Reading is a cognitive process which occurs during the interaction with written materials. But reading motivation comes into existence in the result of combination of cognitive and social factors. Reading becomes is a means of language achievement, communication, and of sharing facts and concepts. Therefore, using a process model of L2 motivation (Dornyei & Otto, 1998), this qualitative case study has been conducted among six (6) intermediate students of Govt. Graduate College, Mianwali. The researcher has used semi structured interviews and observation to collect the data. The data have been analyzed manually and systematically thematically by coding and decoding. Findings show although the students are cognitively and socially motivated to read in L2 (English) yet due to the influence of instrumental social factors, they are more motivated to read in English. However, the students have been found more motivated under the influence of getting success, getting higher education and getting jobs in the country and abroad. The study recommends that due to inconsistency in educational and linguistics policies, students are confused. Therefore, study recommends consistency in educational as well as in linguistics policies of the country, Pakistan.","PeriodicalId":141535,"journal":{"name":"PAKISTAN LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES REVIEW","volume":"20 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140359552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychoanalytic Analysis of Ambrose Bierce's The Boarded Window (1891)","authors":"Muskan Fatima, Suhail Ahmed Solangi, Riaz Ahmed","doi":"10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)11","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines Ambrose Bierce's \"The Boarded Window\" through psychoanalytic analysis, based on the seminal writings of Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna Freud. The study goes into the protagonist, Murlock's, psychological subtleties, studying parts of the conscious and unconscious, dreams and reality, as well as protective mechanisms. The analysis reveals the impact of Freudian notions on Murlock's behavior through qualitative research and paying close attention to textual reading, elucidating themes of repression, regression, and displacement. The main goals are to investigate the essential features of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis in the short tale and to examine the significance of Anna Freud's defense mechanisms to the narrative. The results show a complex interplay of unconscious processes, dreams as a portal to suppressed realities, and the expression of defense systems in Murlock's mind. This study adds to our understanding of how psychoanalytic theories benefit literary interpretation, particularly in the context of Ambrose Bierce's terrifying narrative.","PeriodicalId":141535,"journal":{"name":"PAKISTAN LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES REVIEW","volume":"17 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140361397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utilization of Meta-discourse Markers in Theses: An Analysis of Abstracts and Conclusions","authors":"","doi":"10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":141535,"journal":{"name":"PAKISTAN LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES REVIEW","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140359570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ikram Ullah, Abdul Wahid Aresar, Sanaullah Rustamani
{"title":"An Investigation of Pakistani English Speakers’ Perception about the relationship between Accent and Identity in English as a Lingua Franca Communication","authors":"Ikram Ullah, Abdul Wahid Aresar, Sanaullah Rustamani","doi":"10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)18","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this qualitative inquiry is to investigate the relationship between accent and identity in English as lingua franca (ELF) communication from the perspective of second language (L2) speakers/ learners of English. Learners’ view point and overall orientation towards the learning process impacts the learners’ overall performance. Being a qualitative inquiry this research could not cover a large number of learners in its span. Ten English Students/ learners’ data about ELF communication experience was collected by semi-structured interviews at Karachi, Pakistan. The figures revealed a mix perception about the choice of accent in the participants: approximately 55% of the participants went for their natural accent, while about 45% of the participants chose British or American accents. This research is a small contribution to the little investigated relationship of accent and identity in EFL communication. It is recommended by the researchers that there is a need of conducting some quantitative studies seeking learners’ perceptions about language learning, which would cover divers and a large number of learns.","PeriodicalId":141535,"journal":{"name":"PAKISTAN LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES REVIEW","volume":"16 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140359727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Perceived Social Support on Self-Efficacy of Secondary School Teachers","authors":"","doi":"10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":141535,"journal":{"name":"PAKISTAN LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES REVIEW","volume":"15 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140361219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Relationship between Language Learning and Identity Reconstruction at the University of Lahore, Pakistan","authors":"Hina Ameen, Rida Rehman","doi":"10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-i)02","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how the language learners of The University of Lahore (UOL) perceived the connection between English language learning and reconstructing their identities. Twelve undergraduate English as a foreign language (EFL) students were the participants of focus groups that were conducted in order to collect data. Norton’s poststructuralist and Social Identity theory was used as a theoretical framework to explain the impact of foreign language learning on students’ identities on the basis of social factors that affect a person’s identity after learning a language through this qualitative research. The overwhelming majority of students believed that their perception of their identity was significantly influenced by studying English. The vast majority of those who participated in the interviews indicated a high level of gratitude for this particular influence, appreciating its enormous worth and support throughout their language-learning journeys. Those interviewed had also shown a strong drive to assimilate and a desire to conform to the target language and its associated cultural norms. The results emphasize the significance of motivation and the crucial role that English as a world language plays in influencing how one perceives, redefines, and reconstructs their identity.","PeriodicalId":141535,"journal":{"name":"PAKISTAN LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES REVIEW","volume":"40 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140357653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}