Norsimah Mat Awal
Biographic Data
| ID | 6152659 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norsimah Mat Awal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norsimah Mat |
| FAMILY NAME | Awal |
| SIGNATURE | AWAL N M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7693-2344 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Analysis of Attitudinal Resources in China-Related News in The Star Online
The portrayal of nations in media discourse not only reflects current events but also potentially shapes public perceptions and relationships between countries. This study examines the representation of China, Malaysia's largest trading partner, in Malaysian news, an area previously under-explored. Utilising the Appraisal Framework, we examine attitudinal resources that describe China, thereby assessing how the nation is linguistically and semant…
Kata Ganti Nama dan Representasi Identiti Pewacana Parlimen
Dalam wacana interaksi politik, penggunaan kata ganti nama dalam ujaran secara tidak langsung dapat mencerminkan identiti pewacana yang terlibat, khususnya ahli parlimen kerajaan dan pembangkang. Selain berfungsi sebagai perujukan, pemanfaatan kata ganti nama diri (KGND) dapat menggambarkan bentuk hubungan sosial antara pewacana dan khalayaknya. Kajian ini bertujuan mengenal pasti bentuk KGND pertama yang dimanfaatkan oleh pewacana kerajaan dan p…
Sentiment Analysis of China-Related News in The Star Online Newspaper
As China and Malaysia approach their 47th year of diplomatic relationships, cooperation and trust between the two countries have deepened in aspects ranging from politics to economy. Despite this mutual reliance, the relationship between Malaysia and China is not without its conflicts and these conflicts are often manifested in media reports. How China is presented in Malaysia news is a field that has been scarcely explored. As part of the resear…
Representasi Halal dan Haram dalam Wacana Parlimen Malaysia (Representations of Halal and Haram in Malaysian Parliamentary Discourse)
Isu-isu berkaitan halal dan haram amat penting bagi masyarakat Islam di Malaysia kerana ianya berkaitan dengan pelbagai aspek sosial dan budaya seperti perhubungan, pakaian, makanan dan juga perniagaan. Ramai yang berpandangan bahawa isu berkaitan halal dan haram - iaitu apa yang dibenarkan dan dilarang dalam Islam - sering dikaitkan dengan makanan dan juga pergaulan. Berteraskan dinamik kedua-dua konsep ini dalam kehidupan seharian, kajian ini b…
Modaliti dalam Wacana Perbahasan Parlimen (Modality in Parliamentary Debates)
Perbahasan Parlimen merupakan salah satu kegiatan interaksi bahasa yang melibatkan perbincangan antara pemeran utama yang secara tidak langsung dapat menyerlahkan hubungan sosial melalui unsur bahasa yang dimanfaatkan. Juseru, analisis unsur modaliti dalam klausa ujaran merupakan salah satu penelitian awal yang boleh menonjolkan hubungan sosial pemeran dengan khalayak pewacananya. Makalah ini bertujuan mengenal pasti dan menghuraikan aspek makna …
Variasi Linguistik di Greater KL (Linguistic Variation in Greater KL)
Setelah enam dekad merdeka, sering dipersoalkan kebolehan kaum bukan Melayu berbahasa Melayu dengan baik. Tambahan lagi, kaum bukan Melayu, misalnya Cina dan India masih mengutamakan sekolah vernakular berbanding sekolah kebangsaan. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menyiasat kebolehan berbahasa kaum Cina dan India dalam aspek sebutan dan pertuturan. Kajian ini mengaplikasi metod interviu sosiolinguistik sebagaimana yang pernah dicadangkan oleh Labov (1…
“Is Selangor in Deep Water?”
Air or its English equivalent ‘water’ is very important in our everyday life so much so that when the tap runs dry, it even made it as one of the topics debated by politicians. This paper looks at the issues that surround air /water in Malaysian Parliamentary debates by specifically focusing its relation to the state of Selangor. The air /water related issues were examined based on the collocates of air and Selangor in the Malaysian Hansard Corpu…
Rhetorical Structure of the Arabic Patent Abstracts
Patent abstracts function as an essential part of patents, in which drafters summarize their invention and try to persuade the evaluators to accept their invention. These abstracts also have a crucial function as a useful alternative tool for effective and quick information retrieval. However, there is a scarcity of work on how these abstracts are constructed in Arabic context despite a considerable number of studies in different languages. This …
Language and Identity
Negeri Sembilan, as one of the states in Malaysia, has been greatly influenced by the Minangkabau culture, in particular the Perpatih custom which led to the socalled misunderstanding that Negeri Sembilan Malay language (NSML) resembles or is similar to the Minangkabau language. This article aims to describe the distinctive phonological features of Negeri Sembilan language to mark its identity and therefore prove that it is free from the Minangka…
Dialek Negeri Sembilan dan Dialek Minangkabau (Morphosyntax of Negeri Sembilan and Minangkabau Dialects)
Terdapat kajian yang memperlihatkan persamaan di antara dialek Negeri Sembilan dengan dialek Minangkabau, misalnya sistem fonologi dan kata sapaan. Bagaimanapun, makalah ini adalah percubaan untuk membandingkan morfosintaksis kedua-dua dialek tersebut. Kajian ini mengandaikan bahawa hampir tiada kajian tentang morfosintaksis dilakukan untuk kedua-dua dialek berkenaan. Matlamat makalah ini adalah untuk membandingkan kategori gramatikal dialek Nege…
Meanings of Near-Synonyms and Their Translation Issues in the Holy Qur'ān
The Holy Qur'ān includes near-synonyms which have seemingly similar meanings but convey different meanings upon deeper analysis of the semantic constituents of these words. Such near-synonyms usually pose a challenge that often presents itself to the translators of the Holy Qur'ān. This study investigates the meanings of near-synonyms and their translation issues in the Qur'ān. It aims to identify the contextual meanings of Qur'ānic near-synonyms…
The patterns of language choice at the border of Malaysia-Thailand
Any activities conducted at the boundary area between countries will only be successful if the community of speakers has mutual understanding in terms of language, especially those involving business. This study focuses on a community in the northern part of Malaysia near the Thailand border where majority of people are bilingual in Malay and Thai. This study aims to investigate the patterns of language used by speakers in the Malaysia-Thailand b…
Strategi Wacana Teks Akademik Sains dan Teknologi
Pewacanaan ilmu merupakan hasil tindakan yang strategik dan unik. Dikatakan strategik dan unik kerana wacana yang dihasilkan memperkatakan bidang ilmu tertentu, dengan cara tertentu serta untuk kelompok sasaran yang tertentu. Pewacanaan ilmu juga merupakan sebahagian proses komunikasi antara penutur/penulis sebagai penghasil wacana dengan pendengar/pembaca sebagai sasaran. Makalah ini menganalisisdan meneroka strategi wacana akademik bidang sains…
Second Person Reference in Indonesian Christian Prayer
One might expect that the divine person addressed in prayers by Indonesian Christians matches those in biblical prayers. However, this seems not always to be the case. Since referential differences in such texts are not always obvious, the aim of this paper is to define steps for identifying who exactly is being addressed. For that purpose, sample prayers in Indonesian are analysed. These samples consist of prayers from an Indonesian Bible transl…
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Strategi Wacana Teks Akademik Sains dan Teknologi
Pewacanaan ilmu merupakan hasil tindakan yang strategik dan unik. Dikatakan strategik dan unik kerana wacana yang dihasilkan memperkatakan bidang ilmu tertentu, dengan cara tertentu serta untuk kelompok sasaran yang tertentu. Pewacanaan ilmu juga merupakan sebahagian proses komunikasi antara penutur/penulis sebagai penghasil wacana dengan pendengar/pembaca sebagai sasaran. Makalah ini menganalisisdan meneroka strategi wacana akademik bidang sains…
Second Person Reference in Indonesian Christian Prayer
One might expect that the divine person addressed in prayers by Indonesian Christians matches those in biblical prayers. However, this seems not always to be the case. Since referential differences in such texts are not always obvious, the aim of this paper is to define steps for identifying who exactly is being addressed. For that purpose, sample prayers in Indonesian are analysed. These samples consist of prayers from an Indonesian Bible transl…
The patterns of language choice at the border of Malaysia-Thailand
Any activities conducted at the boundary area between countries will only be successful if the community of speakers has mutual understanding in terms of language, especially those involving business. This study focuses on a community in the northern part of Malaysia near the Thailand border where majority of people are bilingual in Malay and Thai. This study aims to investigate the patterns of language used by speakers in the Malaysia-Thailand b…
Dialek Negeri Sembilan dan Dialek Minangkabau (Morphosyntax of Negeri Sembilan and Minangkabau Dialects)
Terdapat kajian yang memperlihatkan persamaan di antara dialek Negeri Sembilan dengan dialek Minangkabau, misalnya sistem fonologi dan kata sapaan. Bagaimanapun, makalah ini adalah percubaan untuk membandingkan morfosintaksis kedua-dua dialek tersebut. Kajian ini mengandaikan bahawa hampir tiada kajian tentang morfosintaksis dilakukan untuk kedua-dua dialek berkenaan. Matlamat makalah ini adalah untuk membandingkan kategori gramatikal dialek Nege…
Meanings of Near-Synonyms and Their Translation Issues in the Holy Qur'ān
The Holy Qur'ān includes near-synonyms which have seemingly similar meanings but convey different meanings upon deeper analysis of the semantic constituents of these words. Such near-synonyms usually pose a challenge that often presents itself to the translators of the Holy Qur'ān. This study investigates the meanings of near-synonyms and their translation issues in the Qur'ān. It aims to identify the contextual meanings of Qur'ānic near-synonyms…
“Is Selangor in Deep Water?”
Air or its English equivalent ‘water’ is very important in our everyday life so much so that when the tap runs dry, it even made it as one of the topics debated by politicians. This paper looks at the issues that surround air /water in Malaysian Parliamentary debates by specifically focusing its relation to the state of Selangor. The air /water related issues were examined based on the collocates of air and Selangor in the Malaysian Hansard Corpu…
Rhetorical Structure of the Arabic Patent Abstracts
Patent abstracts function as an essential part of patents, in which drafters summarize their invention and try to persuade the evaluators to accept their invention. These abstracts also have a crucial function as a useful alternative tool for effective and quick information retrieval. However, there is a scarcity of work on how these abstracts are constructed in Arabic context despite a considerable number of studies in different languages. This …
Language and Identity
Negeri Sembilan, as one of the states in Malaysia, has been greatly influenced by the Minangkabau culture, in particular the Perpatih custom which led to the socalled misunderstanding that Negeri Sembilan Malay language (NSML) resembles or is similar to the Minangkabau language. This article aims to describe the distinctive phonological features of Negeri Sembilan language to mark its identity and therefore prove that it is free from the Minangka…
Modaliti dalam Wacana Perbahasan Parlimen (Modality in Parliamentary Debates)
Perbahasan Parlimen merupakan salah satu kegiatan interaksi bahasa yang melibatkan perbincangan antara pemeran utama yang secara tidak langsung dapat menyerlahkan hubungan sosial melalui unsur bahasa yang dimanfaatkan. Juseru, analisis unsur modaliti dalam klausa ujaran merupakan salah satu penelitian awal yang boleh menonjolkan hubungan sosial pemeran dengan khalayak pewacananya. Makalah ini bertujuan mengenal pasti dan menghuraikan aspek makna …
Variasi Linguistik di Greater KL (Linguistic Variation in Greater KL)
Setelah enam dekad merdeka, sering dipersoalkan kebolehan kaum bukan Melayu berbahasa Melayu dengan baik. Tambahan lagi, kaum bukan Melayu, misalnya Cina dan India masih mengutamakan sekolah vernakular berbanding sekolah kebangsaan. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menyiasat kebolehan berbahasa kaum Cina dan India dalam aspek sebutan dan pertuturan. Kajian ini mengaplikasi metod interviu sosiolinguistik sebagaimana yang pernah dicadangkan oleh Labov (1…
Representasi Halal dan Haram dalam Wacana Parlimen Malaysia (Representations of Halal and Haram in Malaysian Parliamentary Discourse)
Isu-isu berkaitan halal dan haram amat penting bagi masyarakat Islam di Malaysia kerana ianya berkaitan dengan pelbagai aspek sosial dan budaya seperti perhubungan, pakaian, makanan dan juga perniagaan. Ramai yang berpandangan bahawa isu berkaitan halal dan haram - iaitu apa yang dibenarkan dan dilarang dalam Islam - sering dikaitkan dengan makanan dan juga pergaulan. Berteraskan dinamik kedua-dua konsep ini dalam kehidupan seharian, kajian ini b…
Sentiment Analysis of China-Related News in The Star Online Newspaper
As China and Malaysia approach their 47th year of diplomatic relationships, cooperation and trust between the two countries have deepened in aspects ranging from politics to economy. Despite this mutual reliance, the relationship between Malaysia and China is not without its conflicts and these conflicts are often manifested in media reports. How China is presented in Malaysia news is a field that has been scarcely explored. As part of the resear…
Kata Ganti Nama dan Representasi Identiti Pewacana Parlimen
Dalam wacana interaksi politik, penggunaan kata ganti nama dalam ujaran secara tidak langsung dapat mencerminkan identiti pewacana yang terlibat, khususnya ahli parlimen kerajaan dan pembangkang. Selain berfungsi sebagai perujukan, pemanfaatan kata ganti nama diri (KGND) dapat menggambarkan bentuk hubungan sosial antara pewacana dan khalayaknya. Kajian ini bertujuan mengenal pasti bentuk KGND pertama yang dimanfaatkan oleh pewacana kerajaan dan p…
Analysis of Attitudinal Resources in China-Related News in The Star Online
The portrayal of nations in media discourse not only reflects current events but also potentially shapes public perceptions and relationships between countries. This study examines the representation of China, Malaysia's largest trading partner, in Malaysian news, an area previously under-explored. Utilising the Appraisal Framework, we examine attitudinal resources that describe China, thereby assessing how the nation is linguistically and semant…
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