Beyond barriers fresh frontiers: selected readings on languages, literatures and cultures

“…Two of the papers are on Malaysia; one discusses language choice in the Malaysian legal context, and the other argues for a more proactive approach towards Malaysian research in corpus linguistics. …”

Beyond barriers fresh frontiers: selected readings on languages, literatures, and cultures

“…Two of the papers are on Malaysia; one discusses language choice in the Malaysian legal context, and the other argues for a more proactive approach towards Malaysian research in corpus linguistics.…”
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Methodological flaws in corpus-based studies on Malaysian ESL textbooks by Zarifi, Abdolvahed, Mukundan, Jayakaran, Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani

“…With the increasing interest among the pedagogy researchers in the use of corpus linguistics methodologies to study textbooks, there has emerged a similar enthusiasm among the materials developers to draw on empirical findings in the development of the state-of-the-art curricula and syllabi. …”

Combining problem-solution categories and communicative acts: an analysis of Malaysian and British business journalistic texts by Mohamad Ali, Afida

“…By comparing Malaysian (MB) and British (MT) business journalistic texts, this paper examines the feasibility of combining [13] and [5] theories to search for speech acts that fall into the Problem- Solution categories. Using a corpus linguistics methodology, the results indicate that 1) there are significant differences in the frequencies of communicative acts underlying the Problem and Solution in MB compared with MT and 2) there are no one-to-one mappings of communicative functions onto either a Problem or a Solution.…”
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Use of phrasal verbs in an ESL learner corpus and its corresponding pedagogic corpus by Zarifi, Abdolvahed, Mukundan, Jayakaran

“…With the emergence of corpus linguistics, phrasal verbs have been extensively studied in General, Learner and Pedagogic corpora. …”
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A corpus-based comparative study of Malaysian ESL learners and native English speakers in compliments patterns by Muthusamy, Paramasivam, Farashaiyan, Atieh

“…In recent years, however, with corpus linguistics gaining currency in academia, a new light has begun to glimmer at the end of the tunnel that corpus-based materials and data-driven language instructions can actively and consciously engage learners and acquaint them with what authentic language is rather than what the text books prescribe it to be. …”
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Development of a corpus of Malaysian KBSM engineering texts and related word list by Ng, Yu Jin

“…These objectives were addressed in four research questions and the research design used was content analysis (corpus linguistics approach) to obtain data. The reliable concordance software was the WordSmith Tools Version 5.0 (Scott, 2008) and RANGE (Heatley, Nation & Coxhead, 2002) were used for the purpose of text analysis and word list development. …”
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Getting physical with the market: a study of metaphors in the business times by Tengku Mahmood, Tengku Farah Petri, Mohd Ali, Afida, Rafik Galea, Shameem, Mohd Kasim, Zalina

“…This study investigates the metaphorical linguistic manifestations of the conceptual metaphor, market movements are physical movements, using Charteris-Black and Ennis’s (2001) notion of conceptual metaphors. Following a corpus linguistic approach for data collection purposes, it analysed 50 unique Business Times articles randomly identified from a total of 292 articles. …”
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Creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in ESL learner language by Zarifi, Abdolvahed, Mukundan, Jayakaran

“…Interest in ESL learner language has gained momentum since the 1990s with the generation of learner corpora, development of robust Concordance software and the establishment of the principles of the corpus –-linguistic methodology. All these innovations have empowered researchers to investigate not only the frequent but also the idiosyncratic features of different language phenomena in learner language. …”
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The economy is an organism? A study of metaphors in Malaysian business times by Tengku Mahmood, Tengku Farah Petri, Rafik-Galea, Shameem, Mohamad Ali, Afida, Mohd Kasim, Zalina

“…This study is a non-experimental descriptive study, which uses the corpus linguistic approach for data collection and the corpus for analysis of 50 share market news reports that were randomly identified. …”
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Conceptual Metaphors in Stock Market Reports in the Malaysian Business Times by Tengku Mahmood, Tengku Farah Petri

“…This study is a non-experimental descriptive study, which uses the corpus linguistic approach for data collection and the corpus for analysis of 50 share market news reports that were randomly identified. …”
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