What does sounding Singaporean mean? by Tan, Charmaine Li Min

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Examining the usage of xiao and its role as vague language in the textual conversations of Singapore millennials by Hong, Amanda Yu Hua

“…Xiao is observed to serve three main social functions – a marker for solidarity, a mask for inadequacy in linguistic proficiency or knowledge about the subject matter, and a way to protect the face of interlocutors. …”
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Sentiment analysis and summarization of movie reviews across genres. by Tun, Thura Thet.

“…The method adopts a linguistic approach of computing the sentiment of a clause from the prior sentiment scores assigned to individual words, taking into consideration the grammatical dependency structure of the clause. …”
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Anger in Indonesian: “Awakening a sleeping tiger” by Rajeg, GPW

“…Overall, the salience-based analyses offer a different perspective in capturing the prominence of metaphors and metonymies for ANGER by considering the central components of metaphor and metonymy in the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), namely the extent of mappings and the linguistic expressions. Furthermore, the Indonesian prototypical cultural model of ANGER (§7) largely corresponds to the five-stage model proposed in the previous work on ANGER in American English (Lakoff and Kövecses 1987). …”