Essays about: "malay"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word malay.
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1. Being Minority and Majority - Chinese Muslims in Malaysia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : This paper examines the identities of Chinese Muslims who are simultaneously an ethnic minority and a religious majority in the Malaysian social context. The research questions how their identities shape their festival practices and social environments. READ MORE
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2. The language of vision in four Aslian speech communities : an introductory investigation of basic vision verbs
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : Vision is often considered to top the hierarchy of the senses, reflected for example in the high relative frequency of vision verbs, in comparison to other perception verbs. Results from some previous studies, however, have shown that there is greater cross-linguistic variation concerning perception language than previously thought, emphasising other sense modalities than vision. READ MORE
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3. Linguistic Landscaping in Singapore: The Local Linguistic Ecology and the Roles of English
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : The present thesis, adopting the ecology of language as its conceptual orientation as well as employing linguistic landscape as its methodological tool to collect and analyze data, firstly aims at investigating (1) how the four official languages of Singapore namely Malay, (Mandarin) Chinese, Tamil, and English have been deployed on signs by three different social actors, i.e. READ MORE
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4. Iamitives : Perfects in Southeast Asia and beyond
University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This study explores grammatical markers with meanings similar to the English perfect tense and words like already, as found in numerous languages across the world, and perhaps especially in languages of Southeast Asia, with the aim of describing the main function of these markers. Such items have previously been treated as belonging to the same category as the perfects of European languages but are tentatively termed "iamitives" in this study (from Latin iam 'already') since they differ from perfects in many respects. READ MORE
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5. Annexation and Assimilation: An ethnic approach to the roots of conflict in Thailand's deep south
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate the root causes of the conflict in southern Thailand. Ethnicity is central to the theoretical approach as the Malay Muslims of Pattani, being one part, and Thailand, being the other, are displaying very contrasting ethnical and cultural benchmarks. READ MORE
