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Full-Text Articles in Semantics and Pragmatics
A Semantic Prosody Analysis Of Swear Words In A Corpus Of English Songs, Hashim Hazri Shahreen
A Semantic Prosody Analysis Of Swear Words In A Corpus Of English Songs, Hashim Hazri Shahreen
Student Works (2020-2029)
This study looks at the semantic prosody of swear words found in a corpus of English songs by looking at their collocations using a corpus software; AntConc. A total of 545 songs were chosen based on the Billboard year-end chart from 2011 to 2016 with 243,689 number of tokens and 8,139 number of word types. Word lists and concordance lines were generated from the corpus for the data analysis. The analysis on the concordance lines showed that not all swear words with negative-based meaning possessed negative semantic prosody. Despite possessing negative semantic prosody, 10 out of 15 swear words possessed …
Analisis Semantik Kata Pinjaman Bahasa Inggeris Dalam Buku Teks Bahasa Jepun, Mohamad Radzi Roslinda
Analisis Semantik Kata Pinjaman Bahasa Inggeris Dalam Buku Teks Bahasa Jepun, Mohamad Radzi Roslinda
Student Works (2020-2029)
Kata pinjaman daripada bahasa lain merupakan fenomena yang kebiasaannya dijumpai dalam banyak bahasa di dunia. Menurut Payne (2006), kata pinjaman membawa maksud penutur dalam sesuatu bahasa menganggap perkataan, morfem atau pembentukan daripada bahasa lain sebagai leksikal dalam bahasa sendiri. Kata pinjaman bahasa Inggeris yang digunakan dalam bahasa Jepun juga turut disesuaikan dalam bentuk penulisan. Oleh itu, kajian ini dijalankan bagi melihat jenis-jenis pinjaman dan juga aspek perubahan semantik kata pinjaman dalam bahasa Inggeris yang digunakan dalam bahasa Jepun dalam buku teks Bahasa Jepun Tingkatan 5, Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia. Pendekatan Myers-Scotton (2006) dan Horikawa (2013) digunakan bagi melihat jenis-jenis pinjaman dan …
The Rhetoric Of “Faith” In The Malaysian Media’S Representation Of Football, Abas Nadhratunnaim
The Rhetoric Of “Faith” In The Malaysian Media’S Representation Of Football, Abas Nadhratunnaim
Student Works (2020-2029)
The present study investigates rivalry discourse in football news of the Malaysian media, The Star which has been produced by local news authors who also refer to themselves as the faithful fans of football teams. As they express faith in their team, these news authors tend to compare their team against the others by highlighting their superiority and inferiority. Hence, the study intends to examine the use of “faith” in rhetorically influencing the media representation of football and the social actors involved in the news (the local and international football teams). Corpus-assisted analysis and approaches in Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) …
The Translation Of Rhetorical Questions In The Holy Quran Into English, Najjar Ibrahim I.I.
The Translation Of Rhetorical Questions In The Holy Quran Into English, Najjar Ibrahim I.I.
Student Works (2020-2029)
The current study deals with Quranic rhetorical questions that carry specific rhetorical functions and their two English translations. The analysis is based on twenty four Quranic rhetorical questions and their two English translations: “the Koran Interpreted” by Arberry (1955/1996) and “the Noble Quran: English translation of the meanings and commentary” (1996) by al-Hilali and Khan. The study aims to (1) find out the types of grammatical shifts that have occurred in the two English translations (2) examine the effects of such shifts on the context of situation especially tenor and mode of the rhetorical questions translated into English. To achieve …
Penggunaan Lakuan Tuturan Dalam Interaksi Semasa Kelas Bahasa Cina Peringkat Prasekolah, Yee Wah Lim
Penggunaan Lakuan Tuturan Dalam Interaksi Semasa Kelas Bahasa Cina Peringkat Prasekolah, Yee Wah Lim
Student Works (2020-2029)
Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengenal pasti jenis-jenis lakuan tuturan yang digunakan oleh kanak-kanak prasekolah semasa mereka berinteraksi dengan guru dan rakan sebaya dalam kelas bahasa Cina di tadika. Pemerolehan bahasa dan perkembangan bahasa kanak-kanak masih berlaku pada peringkat umur mereka antara 4 tahun hingga 6 tahun (Piaget, 1964; Saxton, 2017). Data yang dikumpul melibatkan rakaman video semasa kanak-kanak prasekolah sedang belajar, menjalankan aktiviti, bermain dan berinteraksi dengan guru dan rakan sebaya. Justeru, kajian ini menggunakan kaedah analisis kandungan dan kerangka analitikal yang diadaptasi daripada kerangka lakuan tuturan Searle (1976) dan Yule (1996), serta kajian-kajian lakuan tuturan yang terkini (Özge Gül, …
Politeness In Malaysian Esl Classroom Directives., Khaw Aun Nee
Politeness In Malaysian Esl Classroom Directives., Khaw Aun Nee
Student Works (2010-2019)
The present study investigates teachers’ and students’ use of directives and politeness strategies in realising directives in Malaysian ESL classrooms. Using Bach and Harnish’s (1979) classification of directives and Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness strategies as a theoretical framework, audio recordings of three ESL lessons were analysed to examine the types of directives used by teachers and students in Malaysian ESL classrooms and the types of politeness strategies used to realise these directives. Audio recordings of interviews with participants of the current study were then examined to discover the factors that affect teachers’ and students’ use of directives and politeness …
Entri Agama Berlabel "Ar" Dalam Kamus Dewan : Satu Analisis Semantik., Wan Mohd Saophy Amizul Wan Mansor
Entri Agama Berlabel "Ar" Dalam Kamus Dewan : Satu Analisis Semantik., Wan Mohd Saophy Amizul Wan Mansor
Student Works (2010-2019)
Kamus Dewan (KD4) is the latest issue of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Malay monolingual dictionary. Beside the native Malay words, the dictionary also records a great number of entries of loan words from foreign languages such as Arabic, which is labeled 'Ar'. The loan words normally do not deviate from the narrowing, extension or variation in its actual meaning. As such, the study done is more focused on the aspects of accuracy of the Malay meaning than its original meaning in Arabic with al-Mu‘jam al-Wasit as a key reference in comparing and checking of its original meaning in Arabic besides …
Bahasa Dan Gender Dalam Komik Humor Kanak-Kanak., Mohd Nazim Najmuddin
Bahasa Dan Gender Dalam Komik Humor Kanak-Kanak., Mohd Nazim Najmuddin
Student Works (2010-2019)
This research is on language and gender in children’s humorous comic books. The methodology of this research is through analyzing the content of the comic books that is whether they can improve their language skills. This research is limited to Doraemon humorous comic books which are written in Malay because the emergence of various types of comic books which are now available in the market have been of great concern among parents as to whether they should their children to have access to such books. This research focuses on the language aspect used and also on the social behavior characteristics …
Kajian Metafora Dalam Puisi Tradisional Bahasa Cina., Liew Foot Yuen
Kajian Metafora Dalam Puisi Tradisional Bahasa Cina., Liew Foot Yuen
Student Works (2010-2019)
In recent years, the reading of Chinese traditional poems has become more popular in the Chinese society in Malaysia. Traditional Chinese philosophical poems have even been incorporated into the Chinese language syllabus in primary as well as secondary schools. However, students still encounter difficulty in understanding the real meaning of the poems because of the artistic language of the poems which contain numerous metaphors. This is a descriptive study which aims to identify the kinds of metaphor used and the reasons for using such metaphorical items in traditional Chinese philosophical poems. In this research, 122 lexical metaphors from 30 traditional …
Communication Strategies Of International Students : A Study Of Service Encounters., Suo Yan Ju
Communication Strategies Of International Students : A Study Of Service Encounters., Suo Yan Ju
Student Works (2010-2019)
Communication strategies are important in helping L2 learners to communicate successfully when they are faced with a problem in speech production. This study looked at one of the components in Communication Competence, i.e strategy competence or the use of Communication Strategies (CS) in oral interactions among Middle Eastern students and counter staff in institute of postgraduate studies (IPS) at University of Malay. Data collected from video-tape and interviews were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. It was found that the most frequently used communication strategy was the use of „modification devices‟. The other strategies used in order of frequency were „interaction strategies‟, …
Investigating Gricean Maxims In Conversations Among Malaysian Women., Lee Pei Ling
Investigating Gricean Maxims In Conversations Among Malaysian Women., Lee Pei Ling
Student Works (2010-2019)
In this investigation into the conversations of Malaysian women friends, H.P. Grice’s conversational maxims are analyzed in terms of fulfillment and non-fulfillment. Included are the theoretical aspects and findings of both foreign and local researchers who have done studies pertaining to all female conversations (Coates, 1996; Hafizah Ahamad, 2004) and Grice’s maxims (Rundquist, 1992; Kulasingam, 2004; Brumark, 2006). Data is drawn from audio-tape recordings of different groups of women friends, transcribed and instances of fulfillment and non-fulfillment were singled out in the analysis process. To strengthen the validity of the findings, the recordings were triangulated with onsite observations, field notes, …
A Study Of Refusal Strategies Used By Malaysian Teenagers., Phaveena Primsuwan
A Study Of Refusal Strategies Used By Malaysian Teenagers., Phaveena Primsuwan
Student Works (2010-2019)
The aim of this study is to identify the refusal strategies used by Malaysian students when they make refusals. The data was taken from 80 respondents in one of the universities in Malaysia, where conversations between the researcher and the respondents based on a task that was set by the researcher were recorded. The spoken data was analyzed based on Beebe et. al’s refusal strategies (1990) which consist of direct and indirect refusals. Data was then transcribed using Jefferson’s(1978) transcription conventions. This study found that most of the respondents employed the direct refusal when they refuse. Most of them tend …
Tasybih Dalam Surah Al-Baqarah : Satu Analisis Balaghah., Faridah Omar
Tasybih Dalam Surah Al-Baqarah : Satu Analisis Balaghah., Faridah Omar
Student Works (2010-2019)
The aim of this research is to introduce one of the styles of al-Tasybih language ( style of comparative language ) in balaghah’s analysis . Tasybih is a form of Arabic rhetoric which lead to education, teaching and effective communication through the correct use by linguist. The style of al-Tasybih not only in the surface structure, but it contains the meaning of balaghah beautifully in sentences context to the listeners heart and mind. This research is based on fifteen sentences of tasybih from the chapter al-Baqarah that contain two hundred and eighty six sentences. These sentences are categorised based on …
Cohesion And Coherence Shifts In Chinese Argumentative Texts Translated From English., Soh Bee Kwee
Cohesion And Coherence Shifts In Chinese Argumentative Texts Translated From English., Soh Bee Kwee
Student Works (2010-2019)
this study focuses on the shifts of cohesion and coherence in argumentative texts translated from English into Chinese. This research aims to substantiate theoretical assumptions by testing them against authentic data. Firstly, the study discusses the shift of cohesion by comparing the use of third person pronoun and conjunction based on the bottom-up approach proposed by Baker (1992). Secondly, it shows how micro-level coherence affects macro-level coherence of argumentative texts in terms of text-type. Adopting Hatim and Mason’s text-type model (1990), this study highlights the ways in which overall discoursal relations evolve in the 29 unit ‘texts’ used as data. …
Conversational Skills Of An Autistic Teenager : A Pragmatic Analysis., Che An Abdul Ghani
Conversational Skills Of An Autistic Teenager : A Pragmatic Analysis., Che An Abdul Ghani
Student Works (2010-2019)
This study aimed to analyze the conversational skills of an autistic teenager. The sample of this study was a 16 year old male autistic boy; and was referred to a Y in this study. He was verbal and had completed primary school education and at the time of the study he was attending a special education program. He speaks English and Malay, able to read and write in both languages fairly and has high cognitive ability. He is considered relatively intelligent by his teachers and his therapists. This study engaged three theories as its framework. They were Grice’s Theory (l975), …
Strategi Tanya-Jawab Dalam Bilik Darjah : Satu Analisia Pragmatik., Woon Chee Chee
Strategi Tanya-Jawab Dalam Bilik Darjah : Satu Analisia Pragmatik., Woon Chee Chee
Student Works (2010-2019)
This study analyzed pragmatically on the usage of Malay Language in classrooms’ question-answer contexts. The study focused on main question-answer strategies used by the lecturers and the students of Ungku Omar Polytechnic during five sampled sessions of teaching and learning. This research report explicitly revealed some significantly unique sequences of question-answer throughout the whole data, to be analyzed based on Searle’s felicity conditions specified in the Speech Act Theory (1969). The methodology of observation, note-jotting, and audio recordings were used to gather data in the study. Five sessions of teaching and learning in Pendidikan Moral were recorded and transcribed based …
A Study Of Epistemic Modality In A Television Interview., Papiya Chakrabarty
A Study Of Epistemic Modality In A Television Interview., Papiya Chakrabarty
Student Works (2010-2019)
This research explores the use of modals such as will, would and shall which are epistemic in nature in an interview from America’s MTP (Meet the Press) of the present millennium which involves five politicians as speakers. It applies a qualitative approach and is a corpus based lexico-grammatical research which plans to identify the modality and its frequency in only one type of discourse. The research tests aims to test why speakers use epistemic modality and how committed they are towards their views, opinions which become truth propositions when involved in a question and answer session with other participants of …
Machine Translation From The Perspective Of Relevance Theory : An Evaluative Study, Yvonne Hwee Hong Yeo
Machine Translation From The Perspective Of Relevance Theory : An Evaluative Study, Yvonne Hwee Hong Yeo
Student Works (2000-2009)
This study evaluates the efficacy of machine translation (MT) in domains where MT is not conventionally used, that is, in non-technical domains where the subject matters involve human, social and/or societal phenomena. The ultimate purpose of this endeavor is to assess the capacity of MT in dealing with the phenomenon of 'context' as well as utterance interpretation. The evaluation endeavor is twofold, consisting of evaluation of MT product and evaluation of MT process, with the latter being the main focus. Such evaluation is carried out through comparison between human translation corpora (HT product) and machine translation corpora (MT product). This …
Analisis Tautan Dan Runtutan Dalam Teks Klasik Dan Moden, Hasnah Mat Adnan
Analisis Tautan Dan Runtutan Dalam Teks Klasik Dan Moden, Hasnah Mat Adnan
Student Works (2000-2009)
Research in this field has touched beyond grammatical barrier, which is specification of traditional about Malay discourse and modern type. The to two main aspects, being the base of text, which are cohesion and coherence will be the main focus in this investigation. One who investigates the aspect of cohesion without studying the aspect of coherence in a discourse is not complete as both are linked to one another. Although both are different concepts, they are revealing continuous interplay at the level of textual structure. Cohesion, being the form and coherence as the function of meaning should not be ignored …
Stereotypes In The Language Of Beauty Product Advertisements, J.R. Shanmugam
Stereotypes In The Language Of Beauty Product Advertisements, J.R. Shanmugam
Student Works (2000-2009)
This study focuses on the connotative language used in printed facial and slimming advertisements, which may be adhering to any common stereotypes of tile ideal Malaysian beauty in terms of complexion and figure or body weight. It was found that beauty product advertisements do convey a stereotypical beauty to the potential consumer. This so-called ideal beauty has a fair and youthful-looking complexion and a slim figure However, this stereotypical beauty is only implied subtly through the advertisement The research methodology has been carried out in 4 stages Stage 1 consisted of mere extraction of words from the advertisements Stage 2 …
Kajian Diakronik Penterjemahan Istilah Biologi : Satu Analisis Morfologi Semantik, Hasnah Mohamad
Kajian Diakronik Penterjemahan Istilah Biologi : Satu Analisis Morfologi Semantik, Hasnah Mohamad
Student Works (2000-2009)
This is a diachronic study of scientific terminology, which discusses changes in biological terminology after 20 years. Changes are viewed from the morphological and semantic aspects and the relationship between them. The research also determines the existence of specific patterns of linguistic change and whether they have differences in the variety of language form used in the two different time periods. A text analysis approach is used and the study is limited to written material as it is well documented and easier to obtain. Data was collected from, b:tilah Kajihayat, Perhul
Pemerolehan Dan Penguasaan Bahasa Di Kalangan Kanak-Kanak, Noor Azmira Mohamed
Pemerolehan Dan Penguasaan Bahasa Di Kalangan Kanak-Kanak, Noor Azmira Mohamed
Student Works (2000-2009)
Kajian dilakukan untuk melihat tahap pemerolehan dan penguasaan bahasa di kalangan kanak-kanak yang berusia 2.6 tahun dan 3.7 tahun berdasarkan analisis am, analisis sintaksis dan semantik bahasa Melayu. Kedua-dua sampel merupakan kanak-kanak Melayu yang mempunyai latar belakang bahasa yang sama iaitu dilahirkan dan dibesarkan di Kelantan. Oleh itu bahasa pertama kedua-dua mereka ialah bahasa Melayu dialek Kelantan. Oleh kerana kedua-dua sampel yang dipilih terdiri daripada kanak-kanak Melayu yang dibesarkan dalam masyarakat Melayu dan menggunakan bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa pertama dalam sebarang bentuk perhubungan, maka analisis bagi melihat tahap pemerolehan dan penguasaan bahasa di kalangan mereka juga akan dilakukan berdasarkan aspek-aspek …
Pengendalian Kata Ganda Dalam Kamus Dewan Dan Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia : Satu Kajian Perbandingan, Ibrahim Ahmad
Pengendalian Kata Ganda Dalam Kamus Dewan Dan Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia : Satu Kajian Perbandingan, Ibrahim Ahmad
Student Works (2000-2009)
This descriptive comparative study is to find out the similarities and differences in the use of reduplication forms in KD and KBBI. The intertext approach in this study chooses KD and KBBJ as they are regarded as the most authoritative and renowned monolingual dictionaries which becomes a main source of references for vocabulary and linguistic inputs. This study is focused on two major aspects, namely the entry status and the meaning description. The entry status deals with the status of the reduplication forms in the dictionary either as a lemma, sublemma, precategories form. phrase, variant, polysemy, or cross-reference. This also …
Analisis Ayat Berpredikat Frasa Kerja : Satu Pendekatan Tata Bahasa Kasus, Samsur Rijal Yahaya
Analisis Ayat Berpredikat Frasa Kerja : Satu Pendekatan Tata Bahasa Kasus, Samsur Rijal Yahaya
Student Works (2000-2009)
Disertasi ini mengungkapkan struktur ayat berfrasa kerja dalam bahasa Malaysia. Untuk menjabarkannya, digunakan Teori Tata Bahasa Kasus yang dipelopori oleh Charles Fillmore. Penelitian ini menggunakan data yang dikumpulkan dari sebuah novel iaitu Menrouw Toga yang ditulis oleh Sasterawan Negara Arena Wati. Penulis mengumpulkan data melalui metode catatan tentang satuan tematis. Pada tahap analisis data, telah digunakan metode distribusional dengan teknik substitu si, delesi, dan ekspansi. Kemudian metode distribusional ini digabungkan pula dengan teknik lmmideate Constituens (ICs). lmplikasi dan pengaplikasian Teori Tata Bahasa Kasus ini, suatu ayat terdiri atas proposisi. Proposisi terbahagi kepada Verba dan Argumen-argumennya. Argumen-argumen inilah yang diberi label …
A Study Of The Variant Forms Of Chinese Characters In Jiyun, Lye Hin Lee
A Study Of The Variant Forms Of Chinese Characters In Jiyun, Lye Hin Lee
Student Works (2000-2009)
This thesis attempts to give an initial etymological, semantics and phonological analysis of the variant forms of the Chinese characters found in a phonology lexicon, Jiyun. The focus of this study is on the comparison among the above-mentioned variant forms and the relevant scripts listed in the ancient Chinese etymological and phonological works, namely, Erya (EY), Shuowen Jiezi (SW), Fangyan (FY), Guangya (GYa), Yupian (YP), Longkan shuojing (LKSJ), Guangyun (GY) and other classical literary works. In the introduction, a brief elaboration of JY with its praises and disparages by the scholars through the ages is given, followed by the scope …
Perkamusan Melayu : Sumbangan Data Korpus Berkomputer, Norliza Haji Jamaluddin
Perkamusan Melayu : Sumbangan Data Korpus Berkomputer, Norliza Haji Jamaluddin
Student Works (2000-2009)
This study is on the definition aspect in Malay lexicography with the focus on kamus Melayu Inqqeris Dewan. The definition aspect being discussed in this thesis is on the way the definition is done based on the COBUILD definition practice. The elaboration of every word entry is based on the analysis of the computer corpus data. There are six chapters in this thesis . The first chapter provides the background of the study, the objectives, scope and methodology. Chapter II is on the lexicographic convention and definition practice by the COBUILD and kamus Dewan projects. Chapter III presents the computer …