Kumaran Rajandran
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 176932 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kumaran Rajandran |
| NOMBRES | Kumaran |
| APELLIDO | Rajandran |
| FIRMA | RAJANDRAN K |
| AFILIACIONES | Universiti Sains Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4956-0645 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Making Disclosure Credible
The recent interest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns reveals growing recognition of human-induced crises. ESG disclosure is articulated in various texts, but ESG reports are the principal genre. These reports display intertextuality because the absorption and transformation of other texts are crucial to making meaning. The present article investigates ESG reports from Argentina and Malaysia and performs an intertextual analy…
Conceptual Metaphors of Time in Malaysian English Textbooks
Traditional vocabulary research often overlooks the crucial role of metaphorical language, essential for comprehensive lexical understanding. The presence of conceptual metaphors in English language textbooks for non-native speakers remains under-examined, despite their pervasive nature. This study addresses this gap, investigating conceptual metaphors of time in selected Malaysian English language textbooks to highlight their importance for seco…
A multimodal analysis of Nigerian public health awareness posters
This article presents a multimodal analysis of the public health awareness posters from Katsina state, Nigeria. 100 posters were purposefully sampled and analysed using the generic structure potential (GSP) of printed advertisements after Cheong, Kress and Van Leeuwen’s visual grammar, Martinec and Salway’s model of text-image relations and Airhihenbuwa’s PEN-3 model. The findings show that display, which refers to the photographic show of the me…
Portraying people with disability in Indonesian online news reports
This article investigates representations of individuals with disabilities in Indonesian news media by drawing on corpus-assisted discourse study, social actor analysis, and news models of disability. The data comprises news articles which refer to disability published on popular Indonesian online news platforms over a ten-year period (2011–2020). The findings reveal prevalent portrayals of disabled people as passive beneficiaries and objects of …
Islamic fashion in Malaysia
Islamic fashion has expanded considerably in the last five years and it has gained favour from people due to different branding communication strategies. One of the major strategies is commodifying Islamic teachings to make and sell female attire that appeals to Muslim women. To understand this phenomenon, this article examines five Malaysian Muslim women’s fashion brands on Instagram, analysing the language and pictures used to represent Muslim …
Representation of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Malaysian National Strategic Plan and Medical Brochures
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease and diabetes have a high mortality rate, which inspired governments to develop plans to manage NCDs. The Malaysian government produced the National Strategic Plan for Non-Communicable Diseases 2016-2025 (NSPNCD 2016-2025) and various brochures to enhance NCD prevention and management, and to inform the public about heart disease and diabetes. However, healthcare is one of the most prevalent …
Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia
This open access book exploring how language serves to (de)legitimise governance, and its subsequent policies and activities in Malaysia
The Macrostructure of Earnings Videos
Financial communication produces various texts, among which are earnings videos. The videos disclose corporate performance two/four times yearly (once every six/three months). The thrust of research on earnings videos is primarily representation and evaluation, but organization should also be analyzed. It can reveal a macrostructure, the ‘layout’ dictating where representation and evaluation should be placed. The present article operationalizes a…
Polarised Discourse of Complaint Management
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Malaysia signals a significant achievement in the reform of the country’s tax system. An important feature of the tax implementation is the provision of a complaint management mechanism in defusing potentially explosive issues. In response to the negative perception of the tax, the Barisan Nasional (BN) government began a nationwide educational campaign in 2010 to clarify perceived misinform…
Get the Jab
The present article studies how the government of Malaysia legitimises COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccination is a whole government endeavour but the Special Committee on COVID-19 Vaccine Supply (Jawatankuasa Khas Jaminan Akses Vaksin COVID-19 [JKJAV]) is the central government organisation that manages national-level vaccination. The management involves a discursive aspect and the discourse on social media sites should be explored because it frames beli…
“Does the pronominal copula exist in the Arabic verbless clause?”
This study attempts to offer a single unified account for the syntactic features of the pronominal copula in Modern Standard Arabic ( MSA ), traditionally known as ḍamīr al-faṣl ‘Separation Pronoun/ SP ’ within the Cardiff Grammar ( CG ) model of Systemic Functional Grammar ( SFG ). Such a pronoun is typically used in nominal verbless clauses to separate Subject from its Predicate (Complement) when both are definite. This study argues against the…
Constructing collective identities and solidarity in premiers’ early speeches on Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a unique global experience, arousing both exclusionary nationalistic and inclusionary responses of solidarity. This article aims to explore the discursive and linguistic means by which the COVID-19 pandemic, as a macro-event, has been translated into local micro-events. The analysis studies the global pandemic through the initial statements of 29 leading political actors across four continents. The aim is to exa…
Reverse and Reserve
The sequence of clause elements not only determines the syntactic relations of categories but also recognizes the semantic and pragmatic roles associated with them. Therefore, this paper aims to examine reversibility in verbless Equational Clauses (ECls) by investigating the syntactic, experiential (Transitivity), and textual (thematic and informational) features of the reversed elements in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) within the Cardiff Grammar …
Change and Preservation in Language, Literature and Culture in Southeast Asia
‘A Long Battle Ahead’
The short article reports a preliminary exploration about how the Prime Ministers of Malaysia and Singapore frame COVID-19 through metaphors. The framing can shape our understanding of the virus. The Prime Ministers gave public broadcasts on or to the media in March, April and May 2020. The analysis of the broadcasts is comprised of metaphor identification using the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP), and metaphor interpretation. COVID-19 in…
Representing the Incumbent and the Contender in the 2019 Indonesian Presidential Debates
Background and Purpose: The 2019 Indonesian presidential debates were an important part of the presidential election because it drew public interest, enabling the candidates to persuade the electorate. The debates reunited Joko Widodo, the incumbent and Prabowo Subianto, his former contender. Methodology: The article selected the five debates during the 2019 presidential debates. The debates were analyzed with Transitivity from Systemic Functiona…
Portraying Economic Competence in Malaysian Federal Budget Speeches
Budget speeches are a fixed political event in Malaysia. Their content involves the whole country and a variety of domains. Despite the cornucopia of research on speeches, budget speeches are rarely selected and speeches from Malaysia have not been examined in detail. The discourse in these speeches can display how a developing country tackles economic decision-making. The article explores the portrayal of economic competence in Malaysian federal…
John Oddo. (2018) The Discourse of Propaganda
This article reviews The Discourse of Propaganda: Case Studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror
Rajandran, Kumaran
From Matter to Spirit
The article examines the use of metaphors in a prominent Hindu scripture named Bhagavad-gītā. Although Hindu scriptures have been analyzed for centuries, the focus is rarely on metaphors. Bhagavad-gītā has 700 verses in 18 chapters and it records a historical conversation between Lord Krishna and Prince Arjuna. Krishna teaches Arjuna philosophical concepts, which are frequently articulated through metaphors. The article selects an English transla…
Singapore in Malaysia
The article explores how the Malaysian Form 3 history textbook portrays Singapore's merger and separation. The portrayal can influence the perception of Singapore among Malaysians. Singapore was part of Malaysia for about two years (1963)(1964)(1965) and its brief union represents a crucial historical episode. The episode is analysed using Toulmin's argument structures. The analysis identifies the claims, grounds and warrants for the arguments, a…
Disclosing Compliant and Responsible Corporations
In Malaysia, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is relatively new but corporations are required to engage in and disclose CSR. CSR reports are a common register for disclosure and their CEO Statements provide an overview of CSR performance in these reports. This article studies how language features in Malaysian CEO Statements disclose CSR performance. A corpus containing 27 CEO Statements from 2009 to 2011 from 10 Malaysian corporations was a…
Us and Them
This article conducts a linguistic analysis of the history textbook from Malaysia. It studies the way language portrays the Malaysians and British during colonization and independence. These periods are chosen because their economic and political changes resulted in social shifts which continue to influence modern Malaysia. The article analyzes the history textbook for secondary years two, three and five. Transitivity from Systemic Functional Lin…
Us and Them
This article conducts a linguistic analysis of the history textbook from Malaysia. It studies the way language portrays the Malaysians and British during colonization and independence. These periods are chosen because their economic and political changes resulted in social shifts which continue to influence modern Malaysia. The article analyzes the history textbook for secondary years two, three and five. Transitivity from Systemic Functional Lin…
Us and Them
This article conducts a linguistic analysis of the history textbook from Malaysia. It studies the way language portrays the Malaysians and British during colonization and independence. These periods are chosen because their economic and political changes resulted in social shifts which continue to influence modern Malaysia. The article analyzes the history textbook for secondary years two, three and five. Transitivity from Systemic Functional Lin…
Disclosing Compliant and Responsible Corporations
In Malaysia, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is relatively new but corporations are required to engage in and disclose CSR. CSR reports are a common register for disclosure and their CEO Statements provide an overview of CSR performance in these reports. This article studies how language features in Malaysian CEO Statements disclose CSR performance. A corpus containing 27 CEO Statements from 2009 to 2011 from 10 Malaysian corporations was a…
From Matter to Spirit
The article examines the use of metaphors in a prominent Hindu scripture named Bhagavad-gītā. Although Hindu scriptures have been analyzed for centuries, the focus is rarely on metaphors. Bhagavad-gītā has 700 verses in 18 chapters and it records a historical conversation between Lord Krishna and Prince Arjuna. Krishna teaches Arjuna philosophical concepts, which are frequently articulated through metaphors. The article selects an English transla…
Singapore in Malaysia
The article explores how the Malaysian Form 3 history textbook portrays Singapore's merger and separation. The portrayal can influence the perception of Singapore among Malaysians. Singapore was part of Malaysia for about two years (1963)(1964)(1965) and its brief union represents a crucial historical episode. The episode is analysed using Toulmin's argument structures. The analysis identifies the claims, grounds and warrants for the arguments, a…
Rajandran, Kumaran
Portraying Economic Competence in Malaysian Federal Budget Speeches
Budget speeches are a fixed political event in Malaysia. Their content involves the whole country and a variety of domains. Despite the cornucopia of research on speeches, budget speeches are rarely selected and speeches from Malaysia have not been examined in detail. The discourse in these speeches can display how a developing country tackles economic decision-making. The article explores the portrayal of economic competence in Malaysian federal…
John Oddo. (2018) The Discourse of Propaganda
This article reviews The Discourse of Propaganda: Case Studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror
Change and Preservation in Language, Literature and Culture in Southeast Asia
‘A Long Battle Ahead’
The short article reports a preliminary exploration about how the Prime Ministers of Malaysia and Singapore frame COVID-19 through metaphors. The framing can shape our understanding of the virus. The Prime Ministers gave public broadcasts on or to the media in March, April and May 2020. The analysis of the broadcasts is comprised of metaphor identification using the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP), and metaphor interpretation. COVID-19 in…
Representing the Incumbent and the Contender in the 2019 Indonesian Presidential Debates
Background and Purpose: The 2019 Indonesian presidential debates were an important part of the presidential election because it drew public interest, enabling the candidates to persuade the electorate. The debates reunited Joko Widodo, the incumbent and Prabowo Subianto, his former contender. Methodology: The article selected the five debates during the 2019 presidential debates. The debates were analyzed with Transitivity from Systemic Functiona…
Constructing collective identities and solidarity in premiers’ early speeches on Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a unique global experience, arousing both exclusionary nationalistic and inclusionary responses of solidarity. This article aims to explore the discursive and linguistic means by which the COVID-19 pandemic, as a macro-event, has been translated into local micro-events. The analysis studies the global pandemic through the initial statements of 29 leading political actors across four continents. The aim is to exa…
Reverse and Reserve
The sequence of clause elements not only determines the syntactic relations of categories but also recognizes the semantic and pragmatic roles associated with them. Therefore, this paper aims to examine reversibility in verbless Equational Clauses (ECls) by investigating the syntactic, experiential (Transitivity), and textual (thematic and informational) features of the reversed elements in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) within the Cardiff Grammar …
“Does the pronominal copula exist in the Arabic verbless clause?”
This study attempts to offer a single unified account for the syntactic features of the pronominal copula in Modern Standard Arabic ( MSA ), traditionally known as ḍamīr al-faṣl ‘Separation Pronoun/ SP ’ within the Cardiff Grammar ( CG ) model of Systemic Functional Grammar ( SFG ). Such a pronoun is typically used in nominal verbless clauses to separate Subject from its Predicate (Complement) when both are definite. This study argues against the…
Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia
This open access book exploring how language serves to (de)legitimise governance, and its subsequent policies and activities in Malaysia
The Macrostructure of Earnings Videos
Financial communication produces various texts, among which are earnings videos. The videos disclose corporate performance two/four times yearly (once every six/three months). The thrust of research on earnings videos is primarily representation and evaluation, but organization should also be analyzed. It can reveal a macrostructure, the ‘layout’ dictating where representation and evaluation should be placed. The present article operationalizes a…
Polarised Discourse of Complaint Management
The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Malaysia signals a significant achievement in the reform of the country’s tax system. An important feature of the tax implementation is the provision of a complaint management mechanism in defusing potentially explosive issues. In response to the negative perception of the tax, the Barisan Nasional (BN) government began a nationwide educational campaign in 2010 to clarify perceived misinform…
Get the Jab
The present article studies how the government of Malaysia legitimises COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccination is a whole government endeavour but the Special Committee on COVID-19 Vaccine Supply (Jawatankuasa Khas Jaminan Akses Vaksin COVID-19 [JKJAV]) is the central government organisation that manages national-level vaccination. The management involves a discursive aspect and the discourse on social media sites should be explored because it frames beli…
A multimodal analysis of Nigerian public health awareness posters
This article presents a multimodal analysis of the public health awareness posters from Katsina state, Nigeria. 100 posters were purposefully sampled and analysed using the generic structure potential (GSP) of printed advertisements after Cheong, Kress and Van Leeuwen’s visual grammar, Martinec and Salway’s model of text-image relations and Airhihenbuwa’s PEN-3 model. The findings show that display, which refers to the photographic show of the me…
Portraying people with disability in Indonesian online news reports
This article investigates representations of individuals with disabilities in Indonesian news media by drawing on corpus-assisted discourse study, social actor analysis, and news models of disability. The data comprises news articles which refer to disability published on popular Indonesian online news platforms over a ten-year period (2011–2020). The findings reveal prevalent portrayals of disabled people as passive beneficiaries and objects of …
Islamic fashion in Malaysia
Islamic fashion has expanded considerably in the last five years and it has gained favour from people due to different branding communication strategies. One of the major strategies is commodifying Islamic teachings to make and sell female attire that appeals to Muslim women. To understand this phenomenon, this article examines five Malaysian Muslim women’s fashion brands on Instagram, analysing the language and pictures used to represent Muslim …
Representation of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Malaysian National Strategic Plan and Medical Brochures
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease and diabetes have a high mortality rate, which inspired governments to develop plans to manage NCDs. The Malaysian government produced the National Strategic Plan for Non-Communicable Diseases 2016-2025 (NSPNCD 2016-2025) and various brochures to enhance NCD prevention and management, and to inform the public about heart disease and diabetes. However, healthcare is one of the most prevalent …
Conceptual Metaphors of Time in Malaysian English Textbooks
Traditional vocabulary research often overlooks the crucial role of metaphorical language, essential for comprehensive lexical understanding. The presence of conceptual metaphors in English language textbooks for non-native speakers remains under-examined, despite their pervasive nature. This study addresses this gap, investigating conceptual metaphors of time in selected Malaysian English language textbooks to highlight their importance for seco…
Making Disclosure Credible
The recent interest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns reveals growing recognition of human-induced crises. ESG disclosure is articulated in various texts, but ESG reports are the principal genre. These reports display intertextuality because the absorption and transformation of other texts are crucial to making meaning. The present article investigates ESG reports from Argentina and Malaysia and performs an intertextual analy…
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