https://journals.umt.edu.pk/index.php/llr <p style="text-align: justify;">Linguistics and Literature Review (LLR) is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Management and Technology a leading university in Pakistan. Various international indexing and abstracting agencies cite the journal.</p> Department of English and Literary Studies (DELS), School of Liberal Arts (SLA), University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan en-US Linguistics and Literature Review 2409-109X <p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license"><img src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License"></a><br>This work is licensed under a&nbsp;<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. </a>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License</a>&nbsp;that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p> https://journals.umt.edu.pk/index.php/llr/article/view/6506 <p>Idioms are an important part of any language and they are a very prominent source of understanding the culture of a language due to their rich cultural content and character. Despite the potential role of idioms to be a great source of insight into a culture<strong>,</strong> the cross-cultural exploration of Sindhi and English language, through idioms, is an under-researched area. This research is an attempt to explore the similarities and differences regarding the perception of animals in the above-mentioned cultures through the idioms with animal imagery. For this purpose, the data was collected from three books of idioms for each language and the technique employed to collect the data was that of purposive sampling. The analysis of data was guided by the Conceptual Metaphor Theory or CMT presented by Lakoff and Johnson (<a href="#Lakoff_1980">1980</a>) in their seminal work “Metaphors We Live by”. The findings of the research show that the idioms of Sindhi language demonstrate a more negative perception of animals than the idioms of English language. In addition to that, it was observed that English and Sindhi idioms have similarities as well as differences when it comes to the perception and representation of animals. Hopefully, this research will prove to be helpful in clarifying the confusions faced by the native Sindhi speakers who are actively engaged in learning English as their second language.</p> Saniya Bablani Copyright (c) 2025-12-31 2025-12-31 11 2 1 24 10.32350/llr.112.01 https://journals.umt.edu.pk/index.php/llr/article/view/6704 <p>&nbsp;More recent literature on the conflict in Palestine has focused on historical and political injustice. The structural violence, the people of Palestine have encountered from Israel’s regime, arguably a Zionist ideology has been condemned by a sizeable section of the international community.&nbsp; However, the literature mostly by exiled Palestinian writers carries on the flame of resistance. Historically, women are the worst victims of warfare, however, postmodernity envisages the non-human agency of nature as an equal victim of war. Therefore, ecofeminism sees women and nature as joint victims of war and violence. Susan Abulhawa is an American-Palestinian author and activist whose fictional accounts of the torture and daily violence Palestinian women face bring a fresh insight not only into Israel’s brutalization of human rights but into the impunity they enjoy having political franchises in the Western political corridors. Abulhawa’s novels <em>Mornings in Jenin </em>(2006)<em>, The Blue Between Sky and Water </em>(2015)<em>, </em>and<em> Against the Loveless World </em>(2020), document the horrors of Israel’s colonial project and its aftermaths for women and Nature. I argue that both women and Nature are uprooted. Therefore, the theory of ecofeminism aligns with my line of argument. Notably, ecofeminism is a sub-branch of feminism, originally coined by a French feminist Françoise d’Eaubonne who contends that patriarchal society maltreats both women and nature. The aggressor is masculine may it be a war machine or an ideology. By implication, in the fictional narratives, the victim is female deriving her resistance from nature’s resilience against hegemonic masculinity and the resultant man-made destruction of vegetative life. Therefore, Abulhawa’s novels encompass feminist resistance as a version of ecological resistance- a literary trope. In the present thesis, this survivalist behavior of mythical Mother Earth and the woman as a natural and biological nurturer in Palestine-occupied territory under Israel’s colonial gaze is investigated through the lens of Ecofeminism, a combination of Ecocriticism and Feminism.</p> Fatima Ibrahim Bajwa Dr. Rizwan Akhtar Copyright (c) 2026 Fatima Ibrahim Bajwa, Dr. Rizwan Akhtar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2026-02-09 2026-02-09 11 2 26 41