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Discourses of Southeast Asia

A Social Semiotic Perspective

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Editors:
  1. Kumaran Rajandran

    1. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

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  2. Shakila Abdul Manan

    1. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

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  • The first book to specialize in Systemic Functional Linguistics research in the context of Southeast Asia
  • Reflects the latest regional research in Systemic Functional Linguistics on education, media, translation and language typology
  • Provides a comprehensive treatment of a variety of languages and texts routinely encountered in Southeast Asia

Part of the book series: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series (TMAKHLFLS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Covering Women Candidates in News Reports on Malaysia’s 14th General Elections

    • Shakila Abdul Manan
    Pages 1-22

  3. Governing (Through) Affect: A Social Semiotic Perspective of Affective Governance in Singapore

    • Carl Jon Way Ng
    Pages 23-43

  4. Examining Agency in Thai Argumentative Political Science Texts

    • Ingrid Wijeyewardene
    Pages 45-67

  5. Sungkai Buffet Promotion versus British Sandwich Month: Comparing the Schematic Structures of Bruneian and British Food Promotion Advertisements

    • Debbie Guan Eng Ho
    Pages 69-88

  6. Multimodal Environmental Disclosure in Malaysian CSR Reports

    • Kumaran Rajandran
    Pages 89-110

  7. Indonesian Movie Trailers: Persuading Movie-Goers Through Incomplete Narratives

    • Yusnita Febrianti
    Pages 111-128

  8. An Interpersonal Analysis of a Vietnamese Middle School Science Textbook

    • Van Van Hoang
    Pages 129-144

  9. Implementing the Reading to Learn Bilingual Program in Indonesia

    • Harni Kartika-Ningsih
    Pages 145-163

  10. Thais, Foreigners, and Englishes: Communicative Differences in Spoken Exchanges

    • John S. Knox
    Pages 165-187

  11. The Recreation of Pock-Mark Liu and Wang Lifa in English Translations of Teahouse: A Systemic Functional Analysis of Mood Choices

    • Bo Wang, Yuanyi Ma
    Pages 189-207

  12. Thematic Structures of Paragraph-Initial Sentences in Animal Farm and Its Indonesian Translations

    • Zulprianto, Rebecca Fanany, Ismet Fanany
    Pages 209-224

  13. Relational Processes in Tagalog: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective

    • J. R. Martin, Priscilla Angela T. Cruz
    Pages 225-251

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 253-254
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About this book

Discourses of Southeast Asia presents the latest Southeast Asian research in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). SFL provides a sophisticated social semiotic architecture for exploring meaning in languages and texts in the context of Southeast Asia. This edited volume examines the ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunctions in the domains of education, media, translation and language typology. It applies SFL in text analysis so as to be relevant to theory, research and professional practice. This book brings together 12 original chapters by both seasoned and emerging scholars. Their chapters study the ‘native’ languages of Southeast Asia: Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese, and relatively newer languages in Southeast Asia: English and Mandarin. The chapters analyze a variety of texts, namely advertisements, classroom interactions, corporate reports, dramas, interviews, media reports, narratives, novels, textbooks and video clips. This volume captures the exciting and productive state of the art of SFL in Southeast Asia. It will be of particular interest to scholars trying to understand the application of SFL in this region.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

    Kumaran Rajandran, Shakila Abdul Manan

About the editors

Dr. Kumaran Rajandran is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He primarily teaches courses in English Linguistics. His research involves the multimodal study of corporate, historical, political and religious discourses. He also explores the articulation of identity, power and ideology in contemporary societies.

Dr. Shakila Abdul Manan is a former Professor of English Language at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Her research involves how language is used to constitute, maintain or question relationships of power. She also explores issues of multicultural identity and their intersections with class, ethnicity and gender in contemporary postcolonial creative writings.

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