Negotiating the GST Minefield: The Discourse of Nation Building in GST News Reports
The exercise of power through language instead of physical coercion is commonly employed by governments to persuade and convince people about certain policies and issues. This study contextualises such sophisticated operationalisation of power through the promotion of the GST discourse by the former...
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| author | Ong, Cheng Teik Abdul Rahim, Hajar |
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| description | The exercise of power through language instead of physical coercion is commonly employed by governments to persuade and convince people about certain policies and issues. This study contextualises such sophisticated operationalisation of power through the promotion of the GST discourse by the former Barisan Nasional (BN) government in curated GST news articles on the previous BN government’s GST website GST Malaysian Info that published positive GST news articles by the BN friendly mainstream media. Among the various discourses subsumed under the nodal GST discourse, this paper will focus on the discourse of nation building in the selected news articles and how it is linguistically realised. Used interchangeably, nation-building and national development refers to the improvement of a country and her people in all aspects of life such as economy, culture and an equitable distribution of benefits and wealth (The United Nations Declaration of the Right to Development, 1986). Over the years, nation building in Malaysia hinges on carefully formulated economic policies and plans by the government to chart the development of the country’s economy, including the implementation of the GST. |
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| spelling | usm.eprints-456182019-10-11T08:10:38Z http://eprints.usm.my/45618/ Negotiating the GST Minefield: The Discourse of Nation Building in GST News Reports Ong, Cheng Teik Abdul Rahim, Hajar H1-99 Social sciences (General) The exercise of power through language instead of physical coercion is commonly employed by governments to persuade and convince people about certain policies and issues. This study contextualises such sophisticated operationalisation of power through the promotion of the GST discourse by the former Barisan Nasional (BN) government in curated GST news articles on the previous BN government’s GST website GST Malaysian Info that published positive GST news articles by the BN friendly mainstream media. Among the various discourses subsumed under the nodal GST discourse, this paper will focus on the discourse of nation building in the selected news articles and how it is linguistically realised. Used interchangeably, nation-building and national development refers to the improvement of a country and her people in all aspects of life such as economy, culture and an equitable distribution of benefits and wealth (The United Nations Declaration of the Right to Development, 1986). Over the years, nation building in Malaysia hinges on carefully formulated economic policies and plans by the government to chart the development of the country’s economy, including the implementation of the GST. Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan Moussa, Pourya Asl Kumaran, Rajandran Azam, Yazir 2019 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/45618/1/ART11.pdf Ong, Cheng Teik and Abdul Rahim, Hajar (2019) Negotiating the GST Minefield: The Discourse of Nation Building in GST News Reports. In: The 5Th International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Culture. Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, pp. 49-54. ISBN 9789674614362 |
| spellingShingle | H1-99 Social sciences (General) Ong, Cheng Teik Abdul Rahim, Hajar Negotiating the GST Minefield: The Discourse of Nation Building in GST News Reports |
| title | Negotiating the GST Minefield: The Discourse of Nation Building in GST News Reports |
| title_full | Negotiating the GST Minefield: The Discourse of Nation Building in GST News Reports |
| title_fullStr | Negotiating the GST Minefield: The Discourse of Nation Building in GST News Reports |
| title_full_unstemmed | Negotiating the GST Minefield: The Discourse of Nation Building in GST News Reports |
| title_short | Negotiating the GST Minefield: The Discourse of Nation Building in GST News Reports |
| title_sort | negotiating the gst minefield the discourse of nation building in gst news reports |
| topic | H1-99 Social sciences (General) |
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