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ISSN 2617-2917 · Corpus Research Center · 98 articles in the index
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The Representation of Israel in Pakistani and Western News Reporting: A Comparative Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis
News reporting is not merely the transmission of information; rather, it is shaped by institutional and political ideologies, policies, and socio-political context. This study explores conflict reporting, a significant genre of news reporting. The rationale of the study is to examine the linguistic…
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Compact Transformer Models for Classical Urdu Poetry: A Computational Stylistics Approach
Ghazals and nazms are two examples of classical Urdu poetry, which are sophisticated literary traditions distinguished by strict prosodic rules and multi-layered semantic complexity. Despite Urdu’s cultural importance and the analytical possibilities it presents for computational stylistics…
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Religious Framing in Media Discourse: A Corpus-Based Study of Pakistan-India Conflict 2025
This study highlights the role of religious framing in shaping public discourse during the 2025 Pakistan-India conflict, drawing on comparative corpus-based research of 50 editorials (25 from The Times of India and 25 from Dawn News). Based on the Cognitive Framing Theory by George Lakoff and Teun…
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Rethinking the Banking Voice through Pronouns, Digitalization and Power in Pakistan: A Corpus-based Study
Electronic discourse, as a mixed genre, has become a focus of attention in various disciplines. In line with marketing needs and client demands, corporate organizations shifted their operations from conventional to e-commerce. The banking sector also followed suit, facilitating its clients by…
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Media Portrayals of Terrorism: A Comparative Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Pakistani Newspaper
The study demonstrates how English newspapers employ polarized pronominal framing (us vs them) to create a sharp divide between the nation-state and the terrorist. Urdu newspapers use similar terms, ہم and انھیں, but often with a less rigid, more lenient tone. Analysis of modal expressions…
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Climate Change Reporting in Pakistani English Print Media: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Study of Nouns
The current study aimed to analyze the linguistic strategies used by Pakistani English print media to report on climate change and the role these strategies play in framing climate change ideology, using a mixed-methods approach. The data for the study were obtained from the official website of…
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Speaking Frames of Cognitive Resilience: A Corpus-Driven Discourse Narratives of Health Communication in the Print Journalism of Pakistan
Cognitive resilience occupies a central position in current research. In recent years, corpus linguistic tools have afforded language researchers and health practitioners a powerful means of understanding the linguistic character of health-related communication across diverse contexts. However, the…
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Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Themes in Pakistani English Print Media
This study investigates the complex relationship between language, media, and politics through a comprehensive corpus-based critical discourse analysis of political themes in the Pakistani English newspaper Dawnfrom 2018 to 2020. The research uses James Paul Gee’s discourse analysis framework and…
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A Corpus Analysis of Gender Harassment Policies: Understanding Inclusivity and Cultural Dynamics in Pakistan
In evaluating the 2010 Anti-Harassment Law of Pakistan, the study combines an analysis of the discourse and the linguistic corpora related to the subject matter. This research utilizes corpus tools like AntConc (4.2.4) and Sketch Engine to examine gender framing, cultural sensitivity, trends, and…
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Exploring Pragmatic Markers in The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Mohsin Hamid's Narrative Techniques
In the present research, pragmatic markers are examined in the context of Mohsin Hamid's novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, focusing on the narrative sequence and character identity construction. The linguistic and cultural roles of pragmatic markers, such as hedges and discourse markers, in the…
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Portraying Disaster in Pakistani Urdu and English Newspapers: A Comparative Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Study
This study aims to analyze the portrayal of disasters in Pakistani English and Urdu newspapers through Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis (Baker, 2008; Fillmore, 1982). For this study, 50 articles containing the term disaster were collected from the official website of Dawn and 50 articles…
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Gendered Power Dynamics in What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: A Corpus-Based Verb Analysis
The primary focus of this study is to investigate the gender roles present in Lesley Nneka Arimah's (2017) collection of short stories titled What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, analytically focusing on the use of mental and material verbs. Generally, it is acknowledged by the scholarship…
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Anthropocentric and Ecocentric Perspectives in Environmental News: A Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistic Study
Anthropocentric views place humans at the center of value and concern, while Ecocentric perspectives prioritize the intrinsic worth of all living and non-living elements of nature. This paper examines anthropocentrism and ecocentrism in environmental news texts. Based on Stibbe's (2015)…
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A Corpus-Based Investigation of Linguistic Commodification in Pakistani Online Travel Discourse
This study investigates the linguistic commodification of tourism discourse in Pakistan’s digital landscape. It draws on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Linguistic Commodification Theory (Heller, 2010), and Word Frequency Analysis (Baker, 2006) to examine how English dominates tourism branding…
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A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of the Verbs suggest, recommend and propose in the Corpus of COCA
Synonym discrimination is one of the most challenging yet essential aspects of English language learning. Effective pedagogy enables learners to understand and appropriately use relevant synonym vocabulary. This study investigates the verbs of the English synonyms suggest, recommend, and propose…
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A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis of Gender and Race in Chopin's The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
This research aims to analyze Kate Chopin's book The Awakening and Selected Short Stories with several dimensions to look at the intersectionality of gender and race. It gets deeper into the lexical elements and descriptive strategies that Chopin used to construct identities in her book. The…
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A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of the 2024 Pakistani Election Manifestos
Manifestos are important for the public, as they convey the perspectives and unique preferences of politicians. The present study aims to investigate how Pakistani politicians use election manifestos as manipulative tools to control the public cognitively. Adopting a mixed-method approach, we…
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Analyzing Lexical Bundles in Legal Discourse: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Court Judgments
Lexical bundles are multi-word frequently or repeatedly used in legal writing. These are the units or building blocks of the language in formal text intended to communicate ideas effectively and efficiently. These multi-words contribute in legal conversation and discourse to maintain flow…
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Harnessing Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) for AI-Generated Feedback on ESL Writing: A Corpus-Based Study
This study explores the alignment of AI-generated feedback with Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) principles in English as a Second Language (ESL) writing. The research investigates how AI tools, particularly those providing corrective feedback, adhere to SFL’s three metafunctions,Ideational…
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Linguistics Specificity of Universities Prospectuses: A Corpus-Based Genre Analysis
This study investigates the specific lexical choices found in university prospectuses while examining the linguistic structures that define their textual characteristics and determining the genre type by comparing it with similar text types to understand the unique language features of these…