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NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry Vol 17 (I) June, 2019 ISSN 2222-5706 ii NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry Vol 17 (I) June, 2019 ISSN 2222-5706 iii NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry Vol 17 (I) June, 2019 ISSN 2222-5706 Patron-in-Chief Maj Gen Muhammad Jaffar HI(M)(Retd) Rector, National University of Modern Languages Patron Brig. Muhammad Ibrahim DG, National University of Modern Languages Advisory Board Dr. Randi Reppen Professor Dr. Douglas Mao Professor Russ Family Professor in the English Department Humanities Northern Arizona University, Department of English, Johns Flagstaff, AZ, USA Hopkins University, USA. Dr. James D'Angelo Dr. Almuth Degener Professor Associate Professor Department of World Englishes Department of Indology Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany Dr. Sergei Serebriany Dr. Fawzia Afzal-Khan Director Professor of English, University E. M. Meletinsky Institute for Distinguished Scholar, Former Advanced Studies in the Director of Women and Gender Humanities Studies Russian State University for the Montclair State University, USA Humanities, Moscow, Russia Dr. Masood Ashraf Raja Dr. Samina Amin Qadir Associate Professor Vice Chancellor Department of English Fatima Jinnah Women University College of Arts & Sciences Rawalpindi, Pakistan University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA Dr. Nelofer Halai Dr Iftikhar Shafi Professor Associate Professor, Institute for Educational Department of English, Development University of Karachi Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan iv NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry Vol 17 (I) June, 2019 ISSN 2222-5706 Editorial Board Dr. Haj Ross Dr. Maria Staton Professor Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics and Department of English Technical Communication, College Ball State University, Muncie, IN, of Arts & Sciences USA University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA Dr. Ryan Skinnell Dr. Munira Cheema Assistant Professor Lecturer in Media and Cultural Department of English & Studies Comparative Literature College of (Media and Film) Humanities & the Arts School of Media, Film and Music San José State University, San José, University of Sussex, UK CA, USA Dr. Jesse Egbert Dr. Ummul Khair Ahmad BAA 315 Associate Professor Northern Arizona University Language Academy Flagstaff, AZ 86011 Universiti Teknologi Phone (928) 523-6265 Malaysia, JohorBahru, [email protected] Malaysia Dr. Waseem Anwar Dr. Amra Raza Dean of Humanities & Professor of Chairperson/Associate Professor English Department of English Language & Forman Christian College Literature (A Chartered University), Lahore, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan Pakistan Dr. Arshad Mehmood Dr. Shahid Siddiqui Professor Dean Department of English Faculty of Social Sciences National University of Modern National University of Modern Languages Languages Dr. Marium Din Dr. Naveed Akhtar Assistant Professor Dean Faculty of Management Education Department Sciences, National University of National University of Modern Modern Languages Languages Dr. Faisal Nazir Dr. Mubina Talaat Assistant Professor, Advisor Department of English, Department of English University of Karachi Women University, Multan v NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry Vol 17 (I) June, 2019 ISSN 2222-5706 Vol 17 (I), June, 2019 ISSN 2222-5706 CONTENTS Advisory Board Iv Editorial Board v Contents vi Contributors vii Research Papers Muhammad Tanweer Abdullah & Khadija Nowaira Abdullah 1 No Warfare: Let us render unto metaphor’s paradox we live by Shehr Bano Zaidi 20 Peace Sociolinguistics: A Constructivist Grounded Theory of Pakistani English Newspapers Abdul Ghaffar Bhatti & Munawar Iqbal Ahmad 39 A New Historicist Perspective of John Denham’s The Sophy and Robert Baron’s Mirza Mavra Ahmed & Saiyma Aslam 55 Palestinian Narratives of Silence and Consciousness Raising: A Critical Study of Mourid Barghouti’s Autobiographies Akhtar Abbas & Wasima Shehzad 67 A Corpus-based Study of Interdisciplinary Variation of Metadiscourse in Pakistani Research Papers of Soft Sciences Copyright Statement 89 Disclaimer 90 Call for Papers 91 Subscription Form 9 2 vi NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry Vol 17 (I) June, 2019 ISSN 2222-5706 Contributors No Warfare: Let us render unto metaphor’s paradox we live by Dr. Muhammad Tanweer Abdullah is professor of qualitative research at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He received BA and MA degrees in Public Administration from the University of Peshawar, an MS in Operational Research and a PhD in Applied Social Science from Lancaster University, UK, and a professional certification in Project Management from the Arthur D. Little School of Management, Cambridge, USA. He has been a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the School of Education and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development at Leeds University, UK, and a Visiting Scientist at Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London, UK. His academic interest is metaphorical analysis of organization. Email: [email protected] Dr. Khadija Nowaira Abdullah is director of undergraduate medical research at Prime Institute of Public Health, PMC, Peshawar, Pakistan. She received MBBS degree from the Khyber Medical College and MS in Community Ophthalmology, Peshawar, Pakistan and MPH from Leeds Beckett University, UK (with distinction). Her academic interests are quantitative and qualitative research in health education and health promotion. Peace Sociolinguistics: A Constructivist Grounded Theory of Pakistani English Newspapers Shehr Bano Zaidi is an Assistant Professor of English at National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad. Pursuing her PhD in the field of Linguistics from NUML, she likes to call herself a grounded theorist and passionately believes that it’s time sociolinguistic research in Pakistan was geared towards theorizing as a way of understanding afresh the relationship between language and society. Email: [email protected] A New Historicist Perspective of John Denham’s The Sophy and Robert Baron’s Mirza Abdul Ghaffar Bhatti (Principal author) is an Assistant Professor and Head, Department of English at University of Education Lahore, Multan Campus. He is a PhD scholar at International University, Islamabad. He has published research papers in national and international journals. His area of interest is Renaissance drama. Email: [email protected] vii NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry Vol 17 (I) June, 2019 ISSN 2222-5706 Prof. Dr. Munawar Iqbal Ahmad (Second Author) has served in Department of English, International Islamic University Islamabad for more than three decades in multiple capacities and retired as Professor / Dean, Faculty of Languages and Literature in 2019. With a Postdoc from University of North Carolina, Wilmington, he has published research papers in diverse academic fields of interest like postcolonial literature, diasporic literature, and Anglophone Pakistani literature. Currently, he is working as Professor / Chair, Department of English at Air University, Islamabad. Palestinian Narratives of Silence and Consciousness Raising: A Critical Study of Mourid Barghouti’s Autobiographies Mavra Ahmed (Principal Author) An M Phil in English literature, she is a visiting lecturer in Translation and Interpretation Department at International Islamic University, Islamabad. She intends to pursue her PhD research in the field of spatial cartographies with focus on chronotopic consciousness, narrative mapping, life narratives, and diaspora. Email: [email protected] Saiyma Aslam (Second Author) is Assistant Professor of English at International Islamic University, Islamabad. A researcher in Postcolonial Studies and English Literature, she also prefers to keep her critical focus on travelling theory, mobility, life narratives, globalization, and Islamic feminism. She is the author of From Stasis to Mobility: Arab Muslim Feminists and Travelling Theory (2017) and The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing (2019) co-authored with Aroosa Kanwal. Email: [email protected] A Corpus-based Study of Interdisciplinary Variation of Metadiscourse in Pakistani Research Papers of Soft Sciences Dr. Akhtar Abbas (Principal author) is Assistant Professor at Department of English, Air University. He is Manager of Corpus Research Centre. He has completed a research project titled as Pakistan National Corpus of English (PNCE) as Co-Principal Investigator. His research interests are academic discourse, corpus linguistics, and language policy. Email: [email protected] Prof Dr Wasima Shehzad (Second Author) is Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences at Air University. She is the Director of Corpus Research Centre. She has recently completed a research project titled as Pakistan National Corpus of English (PNCE) as Principal Investigator. Her research interests are corpus linguistics, ELT, discourse studies, language policy. Email: [email protected] viii .