On the expression of verbal irony : pragmatic use of reduplication in Malay

Studies of Malay reduplication have shown that it carries the semantic meaning of plurality, repetition and diversity. This paper examines reduplication in Malay from a pragmatic viewpoint. Parliamentary discourse from the 13th Malaysian parliament was used as a source of data. This paper demonstrat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khuzaimah Mohamad Yuni
Other Authors: Frantisek Kratochvil
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66057