290 research outputs found
Brand Aslam: Contesting Nadeem Aslam as Pakistani Anglophonic Voice
Get PDFThis article explores how the literary texts have been influenced by the writer’s promotion as an author with the knowledge and authority to represent Pakistan. We discuss how “Brand Aslam” draws on and amplifies elements of “Brand Pakistan” to secure the authority of Aslam’s representations of the nation he left as a teenager. We are particularly interested in how the branding of Aslam in terms of his national identity (here, Pakistan), especially due to his active involvement in creation of his image, influences commodity value of his work(s) in the global literary market. We conclude that the “real-life” stories of him as a literary celebrity become the objects of special fascination and determine the reception of his works as a postcolonial author from margins
اسلم کولسری کی غزل:بیان و بدیع کے تناظر میں: ASLAM KOLSARY’S GHAZAL IN THE LIGHT OF BIAN-O-BADIE
No full textAslam kolsari is new significant and potentially well-known personality for contributing to modern Urdu ghazal. Being a mindful and multidimensional literary figure he has specific fame in poetry. A distinguish diction in poetry is individuality specifically connected with his name. His ghazal contains all attributes of Research and criticism. Communication of an ordinary concept in his poetry is reflection of Aslam kolasri. In this article the author has explored how poetic characteristics distinguished Aslam kolsari
Study of Pakistan pilot project farmer-leaders to Nepal
Get PDFFarmer participation / Irrigation management / Farmer managed irrigation systems / Irrigated farming / Sustainable agriculture / Institution building / Pakistan
INSUFFICIENCY AND EXCESES OF CHOLECALCIFEROL (VITAMIN D3) CAUSES ADVERSE EFFECT ON HEALTH
No full textFirst author: Shakeel Ahmed
(Hazara University Department of Biochemistry)
Second author: Anhum Aslam
(Hazara University Department of Biochemistry
Engaging Schooling Subjectivities Across Post-apartheid Urban Spaces
No full textAslam Fataar, one of South Africa’s few educational sociologists working with ethnographic methods, captures the complex interactions and dynamics between social life, school processes and youth subjectivity in townships in the Western Cape. His work with concepts of mobilities and space is enormously generative, providing a way for teachers, principals, communities and policy makers to engage with the ‘complex ecologies’ of young people’s learning in urban schools. As an astute policy analyst, he also well knows the systemic barriers in the way of achieving this. The last chapter, on possibilities for pedagogical justice at the site of the school, considers how disengaged students might re-engage through leveraging explicit pedagogic connections between their lifeworlds and school practices. Acknowledging that pedagogy cannot be the only means for revitalising schooling, the author nevertheless insists that marginalised young people’s consent needs to be won by schools that make use of, rather than ignore, their strengths, knowledges and aspirations. The approach to the troubled question of youth and subjectivity is enlightening, and vital to understanding the post-apartheid city and school. The book fills a much-needed gap in educational sociology in South Africa
Monetary condition index and its changing transmission on macro-economic variables
No full textIt has been known with time that no single transmission mechanism is enough to understand the monetary policy stance of that country. The objective of this paper is combine two transmission channel, interest rate and exchange rate so as to construct monetary condition index (MCI) for the gulf countries, namely Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, so as to forecast its impact on CPI and GDP and to suggest policymakers regarding the monetary policy of the gulf countries. For this purpose, the paper applies Principal Component Analysis and Vector Auto-Regression method to construct MCI and to analyze its impulse response on CPI and GDP. This paper concludes that MCI can be used as an indicator to predict CPI and GDP of Bahrain and Qatar in long run and as an indicator to predict the GDP of Oman in medium and long run but it cannot be used as an indicator to predict CPI and GDP of Kuwait and KSA. Furthermore, this paper also concludes that strong monetary policy is needed to strengthen their economic condition. Keywords: Monetary condition index, Monetary policy, Economic condition, CPI, GD
Short-Term Electricity Price Forecasting by Employing Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition and Extreme Learning Machine
No full textDay-ahead electricity price forecasting plays a critical role in balancing energy consumption and generation, optimizing the decisions of electricity market participants, formulating energy trading strategies, and dispatching independent system operators. Despite the fact that much research on price forecasting has been published in recent years, it remains a difficult task because of the challenging nature of electricity prices that includes seasonality, sharp fluctuations in price, and high volatility. This study presents a three-stage short-term electricity price forecasting model by employing ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and extreme learning machine (ELM). In the proposed model, the EEMD is employed to decompose the actual price signals to overcome the non-linear and non-stationary components in the electricity price data. Then, a day-ahead forecasting is performed using the ELM model. We conduct several experiments on real-time data obtained from three different states of the electricity market in Australia, i.e., Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. We also implement various deep learning approaches as benchmark methods, i.e., recurrent neural network, multi-layer perception, support vector machine, and ELM. In order to affirm the performance of our proposed and benchmark approaches, this study performs several performance evaluation metric, including the Diebold–Mariano (DM) test. The results from the experiments show the productiveness of our developed model (in terms of higher accuracy) over its counterparts
A Corpus-Based Transitivity Analysis of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan
No full textTransitivity, a linguistic concept, pertains to the grammatical property of a word in terms of the number of arguments it can take. It holds significance in linguistics by aiding in comprehending sentence structure and the interrelation between word categories. This study explores the utilization of transitivity in Khushwant Singh's inaugural novel. Employing Halliday's Systemic Functional Language (SFL) as the theoretical framework, a transitivity analysis of Train to Pakistan was conducted. The primary objective was identifying the principal transitivity elements in Khushwant Singh's novels.
Quantitative analysis, facilitated by the UAM corpus tool, was employed to measure the percentage and frequency of processes. The study's findings indicate that Khushwant Singh's writing style leans towards heightened expressiveness of emotion in characters, with a notable inclination towards participant usage at 29.89% in the novel Train to Pakistan. Examining clause types reveals a prevalent use of material processes, constituting 14.99% of the novel.
In conclusion, the study suggests that Khushwant Singh strategically emphasized transitivity processes in Train to Pakistan to illuminate the characters' experiences during the partition. This emphasis highlights the role of actions and relationships in shaping the narrative, offering insights into how historical events impact individuals in the author's stories
A Corpus-Based Transitivity Analysis of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan
No full textTransitivity, a linguistic concept, pertains to the grammatical property of a word in terms of the number of arguments it can take. It holds significance in linguistics by aiding in comprehending sentence structure and the interrelation between word categories. This study explores the utilization of transitivity in Khushwant Singh's inaugural novel. Employing Halliday's Systemic Functional Language (SFL) as the theoretical framework, a transitivity analysis of Train to Pakistan was conducted. The primary objective was identifying the principal transitivity elements in Khushwant Singh's novels.
Quantitative analysis, facilitated by the UAM corpus tool, was employed to measure the percentage and frequency of processes. The study's findings indicate that Khushwant Singh's writing style leans towards heightened expressiveness of emotion in characters, with a notable inclination towards participant usage at 29.89% in the novel Train to Pakistan. Examining clause types reveals a prevalent use of material processes, constituting 14.99% of the novel.
In conclusion, the study suggests that Khushwant Singh strategically emphasized transitivity processes in Train to Pakistan to illuminate the characters' experiences during the partition. This emphasis highlights the role of actions and relationships in shaping the narrative, offering insights into how historical events impact individuals in the author's stories
A Pragma-Stylistic Analysis of the Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam
Get PDFThis paper aims at describing Pragma-stylistic Analysis used in the Novel “Blind Man’s Garden” published in 2013 by British Pakistani author Nadeem Aslam. The study is intended to investigate the role of speech act theory (SAT) in understanding dramatic texts through using pragma-stylistic approach. It is also an attempt to examine the pragma-stylistic effects of using speech acts (SAs) and their implication in conveying the theme of the play and the intentions of the characters. The researcher explores the application of speech act theory proposed by J.L. Austin and John Searle. This study was conducted using textual analysis and descriptive qualitative method. Based on the data analysis the eight extracts are selected from Nadeem’s novel and they are Locutionary, Perlocutionary, Illocutionary, Representatives, Declaratives, Commissive, Expressive and Directives. The analysis reveals that the interaction between stylistics and pragmatics is a vital tool for analyzing dramatic texts in terms of (SAT). SAs are grouped into systematic combination depending on the purpose of the speaker or the play wright. By using Pragma-stylistic Analysis the writer able to catch reader’s attention to focus on the content of the novel.
Keywords: Stylistics, Pragmatics, Pragma-stylistic and Speech Acts
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