The present study is a critical discourse analysis of ideological contents related to culture in Pakistan English language textbooks. It critically examines the following books: Punjab Textbook Board (henceforth PTB) English textbooks and Oxford University Press (henceforth OUP) English textbooks. These textbooks are taught in three different types of schools in the country. The PTB English textbooks are taught in the government Urdu- medium schools and private non-elite English-medium schools at the secondary level (i.e. 9th and 10th classes/grades), whereas the latter are taught at the same level (i.e. O level) in some of the elite English-medium schools in Pakistan. The research aims at finding out the cultural ideologies embedded within the textbooks. The research employs Fairclough’s (2003) analytical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth) CDA) to explore cultural themes. The analytical categories adapted for analysis of certain textual issues in this model are: ‘Social Events’, ‘Difference’, ‘Intertexuality’, ‘Assumptions’, ‘Representations of Social Events’ and ‘Styles’. Further analytical devices include Comparison, Presupposition/Assumption/Implicature, Contrast, Foregrounding, Implication, Inclusion, Metaphor, Identity, Representation, Attribution, Backgrounding, Exclusion, Difference, Prominence/Reinforcement, Dialogicality, and Universalization. The purpose of critically analyzing the discourse of English textbooks is, in fact, threefold: (a) To find out the implicit as well as explicit ideological messages related to culture, (b) To see if these ideologies are different in the textbooks of different schools; and (c) To see how far these ideologies impact upon the learners’ worldviews. The analysis shows that both the PTB and OUP English textbooks are replete with cultural ideologies. Moreover, they represent different cultural ideologies which are, therefore, likely to impart different worldviews to their young readers. In order to determine this aspect statistically, I constructed a questionnaire related to the major themes such as gender, jihad etc. The results show that the government and non-elite schools students (who read PTB textbooks) hold almost identical worldview; whereas their counterparts from the elite school (who read OUP books) hold different worldview regarding most of the themes mentioned above. The former ones are more religious, nationalistic, anti-Hindu, anti-Christians, anti-Israel, and closer to indigenous culture as compared to the latter ones. As compared to elite school students, they like male characters more than the females ones. However, so far as the desire for learning English is concerned, difference is little – mostly the students of all schools disagree with the abolition of English in the country. The findings of the present study can be useful in a number of ways. They can be useful in developing new curricula and teaching materials including textbooks with less nationalistic, religious and gender biases. They can also help the policy makers, textbook authors and ELT practitioners to realize the politics of language textbooks, and, thus, seek to establish an egalitarian and symmetrical educational system.
لقد قسمت ھذا البحث إلی أربعۃ أبواب، وکل باب یحتوي علی فصلین، ثم قسمت الفصول إلی مباحث۔
الباب الأول: المقارنة بين عصر نازک الملائكة وعصر بروين شاکر . وكتبت عن الأدب المقارن بشكل مختصر جداً وماالفرق بين الموازنة و المقارنة .
وقسمت ھذا الباب إلی فصلین،
الفصل الأول: ماهو الأدب المقارن؟
وفي ھذا الفصل تحدثتُ عن تعريف الأدب المقارن وما هو الموازنة والمقارنة؟، وبدایۃ الشعر الحر، وحقیقۃ الشعر الحر، وھل الشعر الحر نوع من النثر؟ ھل کانت حرکۃ الشعر الحر قویۃ أم لا؟ ثم تحدثت عن بعض شعراء وشاعرات العصر الجديد وأعطيتُ نُبذة مختصرة عنهم ، واتفاق الشعراء حول نازک الملائکۃ ومکانۃ نازک الملائکۃ بین الشاعرات (النساء) في عصرھا۔
والفصل الثاني: الشعر الجدید في شبہ القارۃ الھندیۃ۔
وتکلمت في ھذا الفصل عن الأدب النسائي، والشاعرات الباکستانیات في اللغات المختلفۃ ثم الأدب النسائي في اللغۃ الأردیۃ وأھم الشاعرات بعد توحید الباکستان۔ ثم الأدب النسائي والعھد الحاضر وتکلمت عن الغزل وبروین شاکر وأعطیت نبذۃ بسیطہ عن بعض أشھر شعراء العصر الجدید۔
لقد تحدثت في ھذا الباب عن دور النساء في الساحۃ الأدبیۃ والشعریۃ بصفۃ عامۃ وعن دور نازک الملائکۃ وبروین شاکر وکیف أن لھما مکانۃ خاصۃ في الساحۃ الشعریۃ وخاصۃ في الشعر الحر والحزین لأن کلتا الشاعرتان من مشجعي الشعر الحر والحزین فأکثر أشعارھما دلیل علی میزتھما الخاصۃ ھذہ۔والنتائج المأخوذة من هذا الباب.
الباب الثاني: الشاعرة العظيمة نازک الملائكة۔
وقسمتُ ھذا الباب إلی فصلین،
الفصل الأول: نازک الملائكة رائدة الشعر العربي الحُر
Tujuan dari riset ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana pengaruh secara parsial dan secara simultan antara firm size, leverage, cash holding, winner/loser dan profitabilitas terhadap perataan pada perusahaan sektor teknologi yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia pada tahun 2019-2021. Metode dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif. Hipotesis dalam penelitian ini di uji menggunakan analisis regresi logistik dengan menggunakan software EViews 12. Teknik pengambilan sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Teknik Purposive Sampling yang menghasilkan 11 sampel perusahaan terpilih dalam kurun waktu 3 tahun sehinnga diperoleh 33 unit sampel perusahaan dalam sektor teknologi yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan variabel firm size, leverege dan profitabilitas berpengaruh signifikan terhadap perataan laba. Sedangkan cash holding dan winner/loser stock tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap perataan laba. Untuk hasil pengujian hipotesis secara simultan antara firm size, leverage, cash holding, winner/loser stock dan profitabilitas berpengaruh signifikan terhadap perataan laba. Implikasi dari penelitian ini adalah agar perusahaan dapat mempertimbangkan terlebih dahulu damapak sebelum melakukan perataan laba.
Priority wise channelization of resources is the key to successful environmental management, especially when remedial resources are limited. The study in hand has successfully explored potential of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques for assessing environmental impacts of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) open dumps. An additional emphasis in this regard was to compare different MSW open dumps for their environmental hazards. The study was mainly done for MSW open dumps of Faisalabad, but for comparison MSW dumps of Lahore have also been incorporated. This study can be divided into the development of an algorithmic criterion that compares MSW dumping sites as a whole, establishing use of the remotely sensed satellite data for detailed bio-thermal hazards assessment of MSW dumps, to study impact of varying geography on these affects, and to study spectral behavior of MSW open dumps for their possible identification. It is first study of its kind that have modeled economical methods within the framework of remote sensing and spatial analysis that can be easily adopted in developing world. The developed ranking algorithm is a Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA) that has made use of the scaling function, to normalize the data values, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) for assigning weights to input parameters showing their relevant importance and Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) for aggregating the normalized scores. Input parameters for this algorithm have been divided into three classes namely resident''s concerns, groundwater vulnerability and surface facilities. Remote Sensing data and GIS analyses were used to prepare most of the input data. Working of the algorithm has been elaborated by comparing four of the dump sites namely main Municipal Solid Waste Open Dump (MSWOD) of Faisalabad (MF-MSWOD), new MSWOD of Faisalabad (NF-MSWOD), Saggian and Mahmood Booti (MB-MSWOD) dumps of Lahore. The comparison has been made first at class levels and then class scores have been aggregated into environmental normalized index for environmental impact ranking. The hierarchy of goodness for the selected sites is found to be NF-MSWOD > MF-MSWOD > MB-MSWOD > Saggian with comparative scores of goodness to environment as 36.67, 28.43, 21.26 and 13.63 respectively. Flexibility of developed criteria to adjust any number of classes and parameters in one class will be very helpful for developing world where availability of data is the biggest hurdle in research based environmental sustainability planning. The proposed model can be run even without 2 purchasing expensive satellite data and GIS software, with little inaccuracy, using imagery and measurement tools provided by Google Earth. To establish the use of the remotely sensed satellite data for detailed bio-thermal hazards assessment of MSW dumps thirty images of Landsat-8 have been selected after validation for the accuracy of their observational details from April, 2013 to October, 2015. Land Surface Temperature (LST), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI) and Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (MSAVI) derived from these images through Digital Image Processing (DIP) and have been used for spatio-temporal analysis in GIS environment. MF-MSWOD has been found with average temperature elevation of 4.3 K and 2.78 K from nearby agriculture land and urban settlement respectively. Vegetation health has been used as the bio-indicator of MSW effects and is implemented through NDVI, SAVI, MSAVI. Spatial analyses have been used to mark boundary of bio-thermally affected zone around dumped MSW and measures 700 m. Seasonal fluctuations of elevated temperatures and boundary of the biothermally affected zones have also been discussed. Based on the direct relation found between vegetation vigor and the level of deterioration within the bio-thermally affected region, use of crops with heavy vigor is recommended to study MSW hazard influence using bio-indicators of vegetation health. The results obtained and the research methodology of spatial analysis for MF-MSWOD, surrounded by a uniform vegetation cover all around, have been compared with that of the MBMSWOD surrounded by a complex neighboring land cover. Contrary to MF-MSWOD, the MBMSWOD has been found to affect surrounding vegetation to an average distance of about 650 m that varies from 400 m in winter to 800 m in dry summer. The thermal influence zone was observed to have about the same radial extent of 650 m with minimum of 350 m found in dry summer and maximum of 1000 m in winter. The comparison has resulted into two main conclusions. In the first place the severity of bio-thermal effects of an open MSW dump, in addition to waste age, characterization, pile etc., also depends on surrounding geography. Secondly, the use of GIS analysis for studying the bio-thermal effects requires modification that varies from case to case, depending upon neighboring land cover. The use of remotely sensed data for monitoring dumped MSW is a good alternative but selection of proper GIS methodology, representing natural setting of phenomena is as important as accuracy of the remotely sensed data.