Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Qasim

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Brief Statement of research work

My research primarily centers on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), particularly Halliday's metafunctional framework, including transitivity, appraisal, thematic structure, modality, and grammatical metaphor. My PhD research on A Transitivity Analysis of Mohsin Hamid's Fiction established my scholarly focus on functional grammar and discourse analysis. Over the years, I have extensively applied SFL to literary texts, media discourse, political speeches, academic writing, and newspaper editorials, integrating corpus-based methods and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to explore ideology, gender, identity, and representation. My broader research interests include corpus linguistics, stylistics, multimodal discourse analysis, eco-linguistics, translation studies, lexicography, and the morphosyntactic description of Pakistani languages such as Saraiki and its varieties. I have supervised numerous MPhil and PhD theses in areas related to transitivity analysis, media framing, gender construction, educational linguistics, and language policy, reflecting my strong engagement with both theoretical and applied dimensions of linguistics within Pakistani and global contexts.