Foreigner and foreign in English-language newspapers in Malaysia: A framesemantic approach

This paper explores the usage of two morphologically related words, foreign and foreigner, in two major daily English-language newspapers circulated widely in Malaysia. On the basis of 285 tokens, the study shows a striking tendency indicating that they do not share exactly the same semantic conte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Toshiko Yamaguchi, Huixin Yeo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2015
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8863/1/8819-25691-1-PB.pdf