1st HDSRC – International Human Development and Social Research Conference | 2025

Articles

• Face-Threatening Acts in Workplace Email Communication: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Corpus-Based Analysis of British, Indian, and Japanese Professional Discourse and Politeness Strategies

  Jamal Latif Sulangi, Javeiria Bilqees Fatima

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• Directive Speech Acts in Courtroom Cross-Examination: A Comparative Pragmatic Analysis of Ghanaian and British Legal Discourse Using an Interactional-Discursive Speech Act Framework

  Muhammad Umair Yasufzai

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• Heritage Language Maintenance and Diaspora Identity among Second-Generation Pakistani Migrants in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Spain: A Mixed-Methods Investigation

  Muhammad Farhan Insari

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• Conceptual Metaphors in Climate Change Discourse: A Critical Comparative Analysis of Ideological Framing in British and American Newspaper Reporting, 2020–2024

  John Baker Devidom

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• Source Text Complexity and Machine Translation Post-Editing Effort: Evidence from Professional Arabic–English Translators across Technical and Legal Domains

  Muhammad Saad Iman

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• Evaluating the Impact of Plain Language Reform on Citizen Comprehension of Legal Documents: Evidence from Tenancy, Employment, and Social Benefit Texts

  Fiza Sameer Khan

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• Apology Strategies in Commercial Chatbots: A Speech Act Analysis of Formulaicity, Pragmatic Deficits, and Design Implications for Customer-Service Conversational AI Systems

  Syeda Sabika Naqvi, Ayyan Ahmed Niayzi

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• Cross-Disciplinary Variation in Hedging Strategies: A Corpus-Based Study of Linguistics, Medicine, Economics, and Engineering Research Articles through Metadiscourse and Genre Analysis

  Bisma Binte Zehra

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• Translating English Gender-Neutral Language into Gendered Languages: Strategies, Challenges, and Policy Implications for Arabic, French, and German Institutional Translation

  Qasim Javed Parveiz

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• Code-Switching as a Pragmatic Resource in Multilingual Classrooms: A Conversation Analytic Study of English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Zulu Interaction in Cape Town Schools

  Syeda Sabika Hussain, Durdana Imtiaz Parveen

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• A Comparative Legal Linguistic Analysis of Hate Speech Definitions across Twelve Jurisdictions: Definitional Structures, Protected Characteristics, and Regulatory Thresholds

  Salma Manzoor Tanooli

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