Pertanika journal of social science and humanities, 2016
Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) was stricken by crisis on 8 March, 2014 when flight MH370, which ... more Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) was stricken by crisis on 8 March, 2014 when flight MH370, which was scheduled to land in Beijing the same day, lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control in Selangor, Malaysia. What happened to the flight remains a mystery till now. The incident necessitated a lot of press conferences as news of the progress of the Search and Rescue mission needed to be delivered. This study investigated how access to the floor during the MH370 press conferences was decided and regulated and how institutional power was portrayed by participants of the press conferences. Thirteen press conference videos were transcribed and analysed using the Conversation Analysis (CA) approach on institutional interaction and power behind discourse, which is part of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The findings showed that turn-taking was regulated through five mechanisms, namely, pre-allocated turn, turn-allocation techniques, turn-taking cues, overlaps and interruptions. Furthe...
How do members of the new generation praise each other? Do they still adhere to the communication... more How do members of the new generation praise each other? Do they still adhere to the communication strategies prescribed in their traditional cultural values or modernization has played a role in initiating changes in peoples linguistic behavior?The book addresses the changes in the cultural values that have emerged in the speech acts of compliments and compliment responses of native speakers of Malay in Malaysia. In the field of sociolinguistics, the discussion provides insights into the current practices of the Malay speech acts and linguistic identity among the speakers, especially after 60 years of Malaysias independence. The rapid developments in technology and cyber communication have contributed to linguistic innovation and changes in language use to a certain extent, hence calling for a look at its impact on Malay cultural values.Through empirical evidence, the book attempts to elucidate the emerging norms that indicate changes in the cultural values of the new Malays. Our ar...
Pertanika journal of social science and humanities, 2013
Studies have established a correlation between indirectness and politeness; one of them being tha... more Studies have established a correlation between indirectness and politeness; one of them being that a higher level of indirectness indicates a higher level of politeness. Among traditional Malaysian Malays as an instance, indirectness is highly valued as it reflects a cultured and refined upbringing which has been upheld as a way of living at every level of the society. However, Malaysia has seen changes and transformations in many ways in its physical and cultural development, in the values and in the way of speaking, though the latter has not been much documented empirically. This sets the aim of this paper, which is to empirically document this transformation in the way of speaking that involves indirectness, by focusing into the production of requests by a group of 36 young Malay native speakers. Request is one of the common speech acts in interactions, yet highly face-threatening therefore requiring certain politeness strategies for its execution. Writings about the Malay norms ...
Most apology studies in the Jordanian context have investigated apologies based on a corpus of el... more Most apology studies in the Jordanian context have investigated apologies based on a corpus of elicited data. Rarely have apologies been observed in the natural data; nor have the contextual factors that obligated these apologies been considered. This study is based on a corpus of 1100 naturally occurring apology events, collected through an ethnographic observation. Semi-structured interview was also used to examine the influence of contextual factors (social status, social distance, and severity of offence) on the choice of apology strategies. The respondents for this study were selected via convenient sampling. The naturally occurring apologies were coded using a modified version of the apology strategy typology outlined by Olshtain and Cohen (1983). There are series of findings that are worth noting; the first is that, acknowledging responsibility was the most common apology strategy in Jordanian Arabic. Second, acknowledging responsibility and swearing by God’s name, formed the...
Industri kelapa sawit merupakan penyumbang utama kepada ekonomi Malaysia dan memerlukan tenaga bu... more Industri kelapa sawit merupakan penyumbang utama kepada ekonomi Malaysia dan memerlukan tenaga buruh yang mantap. Wagaimanapun, perkembangan dewasa ini telah menyaksikan penggunaan buruh-buruh dari luar Malaysia dan sangat kurang gunatenaga tempatan. Bagi mengatasi masalah pengangguran dan kekurangan pekerjaan, kerajaan perlu melihat bagaimana penduduk tempatan boleh menyumbang kepada pengeluaran dan kelestarian industri ini dan tidak hanya bergantung kepada buruh asing. Salah satu caranya adalah dengan meningkatkan pengetahuan belia kepada industri kelapa sawit di Malaysia serta memberi galakan kepada mereka untuk menyertai latihan tenaga mahir dalam industri ini. Persepsi bahawa golongan belia di Malaysia tidak berminat untuk menyertai bidang kerja kelapa sawit memerlukan kajian terperinci untuk memastikan sikap dan pengetahuan sebenar mereka terhadap industri ini. Permasalahan ini menjadi asas kepada objektif kajian ini untuk mengenalpasti sikap belia Malaysia dalam menyertai ind...
2010 International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR 2010), 2010
... Noraini Ibrahim School of Language and Linguistic Studies Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bang... more ... Noraini Ibrahim School of Language and Linguistic Studies Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi, Malaysia nib@ ukm.my ... end of the interview, one of the interviewers specifically indicated that the candidate was successful in the interview (line 159: ↑Alright!Then you're ready ...
ABSTRAK Kajian ini merupakan tinjauan awal untuk melihat pengaruh sosiobudaya masyarakat Orang As... more ABSTRAK Kajian ini merupakan tinjauan awal untuk melihat pengaruh sosiobudaya masyarakat Orang Asli Kanaq terhadap penerimaan mereka kepada unsur luar selain daripada budaya mereka. Unsur luar yang difokuskan dalam kajian ini adalah penguasaan bahasa kedua, iaitu Bahasa Melayu. Kajian ini merupakan kajian kualitatif yang terdiri daripada kajian kepustakaan dan kajian lapangan. Melalui kaedah lapangan, pengkaji menggunakan teknik temu bual dan pemerhatian tidak turut serta. Seramai lima orang responden terlibat dalam kajian ini yang terdiri daripada tiga orang remaja Orang Asli suku kaum Kanaq dan dua orang pakar. Lokasi kajian ini ialah Kampung Sungai Selangi, Kota Tinggi, Johor. Hasil dapatan kajian mendapati remaja Orang Asli Kanaq sememangnya mempunyai sosiobudaya yang kuat yang membuatkan mereka kurang mengendahkan unsur luar yang boleh membantu mengubah kehidupan mereka. Hal ini menjelaskan keperluan sosiobudaya Orang Asli sangat penting diangkat sama dalam usaha untuk membantu...
The purpose of the study is to investigate code switching (CS) exchanges in the movie Ola Bola; o... more The purpose of the study is to investigate code switching (CS) exchanges in the movie Ola Bola; one of the highest box office movies in the Malaysian history in 2016, with a gross collection of the ticket selling of almost RM16 million (Finas, 2016). The study analysed the reasons why Malaysians; as aptly portrayed by the multi-racial characters in this particular movie, code switch in their daily interactions based on the theory proposed by David Crystal (1987). Another part of this study identified the types of code switchings used in this movie from the categories proposed by Shana Poplack (1980). Discussions from the findings show how the usage of code switchings depicts the spirit of solidarity, patriotism and unity in a multi-racial society; from Malaysian perspective.
Pertanika journal of social science and humanities, 2016
Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) was stricken by crisis on 8 March, 2014 when flight MH370, which ... more Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) was stricken by crisis on 8 March, 2014 when flight MH370, which was scheduled to land in Beijing the same day, lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control in Selangor, Malaysia. What happened to the flight remains a mystery till now. The incident necessitated a lot of press conferences as news of the progress of the Search and Rescue mission needed to be delivered. This study investigated how access to the floor during the MH370 press conferences was decided and regulated and how institutional power was portrayed by participants of the press conferences. Thirteen press conference videos were transcribed and analysed using the Conversation Analysis (CA) approach on institutional interaction and power behind discourse, which is part of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The findings showed that turn-taking was regulated through five mechanisms, namely, pre-allocated turn, turn-allocation techniques, turn-taking cues, overlaps and interruptions. Furthe...
How do members of the new generation praise each other? Do they still adhere to the communication... more How do members of the new generation praise each other? Do they still adhere to the communication strategies prescribed in their traditional cultural values or modernization has played a role in initiating changes in peoples linguistic behavior?The book addresses the changes in the cultural values that have emerged in the speech acts of compliments and compliment responses of native speakers of Malay in Malaysia. In the field of sociolinguistics, the discussion provides insights into the current practices of the Malay speech acts and linguistic identity among the speakers, especially after 60 years of Malaysias independence. The rapid developments in technology and cyber communication have contributed to linguistic innovation and changes in language use to a certain extent, hence calling for a look at its impact on Malay cultural values.Through empirical evidence, the book attempts to elucidate the emerging norms that indicate changes in the cultural values of the new Malays. Our ar...
Pertanika journal of social science and humanities, 2013
Studies have established a correlation between indirectness and politeness; one of them being tha... more Studies have established a correlation between indirectness and politeness; one of them being that a higher level of indirectness indicates a higher level of politeness. Among traditional Malaysian Malays as an instance, indirectness is highly valued as it reflects a cultured and refined upbringing which has been upheld as a way of living at every level of the society. However, Malaysia has seen changes and transformations in many ways in its physical and cultural development, in the values and in the way of speaking, though the latter has not been much documented empirically. This sets the aim of this paper, which is to empirically document this transformation in the way of speaking that involves indirectness, by focusing into the production of requests by a group of 36 young Malay native speakers. Request is one of the common speech acts in interactions, yet highly face-threatening therefore requiring certain politeness strategies for its execution. Writings about the Malay norms ...
Most apology studies in the Jordanian context have investigated apologies based on a corpus of el... more Most apology studies in the Jordanian context have investigated apologies based on a corpus of elicited data. Rarely have apologies been observed in the natural data; nor have the contextual factors that obligated these apologies been considered. This study is based on a corpus of 1100 naturally occurring apology events, collected through an ethnographic observation. Semi-structured interview was also used to examine the influence of contextual factors (social status, social distance, and severity of offence) on the choice of apology strategies. The respondents for this study were selected via convenient sampling. The naturally occurring apologies were coded using a modified version of the apology strategy typology outlined by Olshtain and Cohen (1983). There are series of findings that are worth noting; the first is that, acknowledging responsibility was the most common apology strategy in Jordanian Arabic. Second, acknowledging responsibility and swearing by God’s name, formed the...
Industri kelapa sawit merupakan penyumbang utama kepada ekonomi Malaysia dan memerlukan tenaga bu... more Industri kelapa sawit merupakan penyumbang utama kepada ekonomi Malaysia dan memerlukan tenaga buruh yang mantap. Wagaimanapun, perkembangan dewasa ini telah menyaksikan penggunaan buruh-buruh dari luar Malaysia dan sangat kurang gunatenaga tempatan. Bagi mengatasi masalah pengangguran dan kekurangan pekerjaan, kerajaan perlu melihat bagaimana penduduk tempatan boleh menyumbang kepada pengeluaran dan kelestarian industri ini dan tidak hanya bergantung kepada buruh asing. Salah satu caranya adalah dengan meningkatkan pengetahuan belia kepada industri kelapa sawit di Malaysia serta memberi galakan kepada mereka untuk menyertai latihan tenaga mahir dalam industri ini. Persepsi bahawa golongan belia di Malaysia tidak berminat untuk menyertai bidang kerja kelapa sawit memerlukan kajian terperinci untuk memastikan sikap dan pengetahuan sebenar mereka terhadap industri ini. Permasalahan ini menjadi asas kepada objektif kajian ini untuk mengenalpasti sikap belia Malaysia dalam menyertai ind...
2010 International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR 2010), 2010
... Noraini Ibrahim School of Language and Linguistic Studies Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bang... more ... Noraini Ibrahim School of Language and Linguistic Studies Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi, Malaysia nib@ ukm.my ... end of the interview, one of the interviewers specifically indicated that the candidate was successful in the interview (line 159: ↑Alright!Then you're ready ...
ABSTRAK Kajian ini merupakan tinjauan awal untuk melihat pengaruh sosiobudaya masyarakat Orang As... more ABSTRAK Kajian ini merupakan tinjauan awal untuk melihat pengaruh sosiobudaya masyarakat Orang Asli Kanaq terhadap penerimaan mereka kepada unsur luar selain daripada budaya mereka. Unsur luar yang difokuskan dalam kajian ini adalah penguasaan bahasa kedua, iaitu Bahasa Melayu. Kajian ini merupakan kajian kualitatif yang terdiri daripada kajian kepustakaan dan kajian lapangan. Melalui kaedah lapangan, pengkaji menggunakan teknik temu bual dan pemerhatian tidak turut serta. Seramai lima orang responden terlibat dalam kajian ini yang terdiri daripada tiga orang remaja Orang Asli suku kaum Kanaq dan dua orang pakar. Lokasi kajian ini ialah Kampung Sungai Selangi, Kota Tinggi, Johor. Hasil dapatan kajian mendapati remaja Orang Asli Kanaq sememangnya mempunyai sosiobudaya yang kuat yang membuatkan mereka kurang mengendahkan unsur luar yang boleh membantu mengubah kehidupan mereka. Hal ini menjelaskan keperluan sosiobudaya Orang Asli sangat penting diangkat sama dalam usaha untuk membantu...
The purpose of the study is to investigate code switching (CS) exchanges in the movie Ola Bola; o... more The purpose of the study is to investigate code switching (CS) exchanges in the movie Ola Bola; one of the highest box office movies in the Malaysian history in 2016, with a gross collection of the ticket selling of almost RM16 million (Finas, 2016). The study analysed the reasons why Malaysians; as aptly portrayed by the multi-racial characters in this particular movie, code switch in their daily interactions based on the theory proposed by David Crystal (1987). Another part of this study identified the types of code switchings used in this movie from the categories proposed by Shana Poplack (1980). Discussions from the findings show how the usage of code switchings depicts the spirit of solidarity, patriotism and unity in a multi-racial society; from Malaysian perspective.
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