Mohamad Nur Raihan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6527033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohamad Nur Raihan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohamad Nur |
| FAMILY NAME | Raihan |
| SIGNATURE | RAIHAN M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Brunei Darussalam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9620-9703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Modal verbs in Brunei English online discourse: A corpus-pragmatic analysis of the Reddit Serious Discussion sub-corpus of CoBE
Modal verbs express epistemic stance, obligation, and dynamic meaning, making them a key resource for investigating variation across World Englishes. Yet modal pragmatics in Brunei English remains unexplored. This study offers the first detailed account, drawing on the Reddit Serious Discussion sub-corpus of the Corpus of Brunei English (CoBE), comprising 771,376 tokens across 323 documents. Frequency and collocational analysis are combined with …
The Corpus of Brunei English (CoBE): An introduction
The Corpus of Brunei English (CoBE) is a large-scale collection of English spoken and written by Bruneians obtained from both formal and informal domains. This article presents the ongoing process of building the first corpus for Brunei English with a two-fold goal in mind: to provide a readily available resource centre for researchers who wish to study Brunei English; and to contribute to the existing corpus on World Englishes, thereby placing B…
The Lingua Franca Core and Englishes in East and Southeast Asia
It has been argued, especially by Jenkins (2000, 2007), that it should not be the goal of learners to imitate speakers from the UK or USA. Instead, they should aim to achieve mutual intelligibility with other speakers of English as a Lingua Franca from around the world. This led her to propose the Lingua Franca Core, an inventory of pronunciation features that she suggests are necessary for maintaining intelligibility in international communicati…
The pronunciation of Brunei English
After briefly reviewing previous studies into the pronunciation of English in Brunei, this article provides an overview of the phonology of Brunei English. It considers rhoticity, the pronunciation of the TH sounds, the simplification of word‐final consonant clusters, devoicing of syllable‐final fricatives, the merging of vowels such as the trap and dress vowels as well as the absence of vowel length distinctions, the use of spelling pronunciatio…
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The Lingua Franca Core and Englishes in East and Southeast Asia
It has been argued, especially by Jenkins (2000, 2007), that it should not be the goal of learners to imitate speakers from the UK or USA. Instead, they should aim to achieve mutual intelligibility with other speakers of English as a Lingua Franca from around the world. This led her to propose the Lingua Franca Core, an inventory of pronunciation features that she suggests are necessary for maintaining intelligibility in international communicati…
The pronunciation of Brunei English
After briefly reviewing previous studies into the pronunciation of English in Brunei, this article provides an overview of the phonology of Brunei English. It considers rhoticity, the pronunciation of the TH sounds, the simplification of word‐final consonant clusters, devoicing of syllable‐final fricatives, the merging of vowels such as the trap and dress vowels as well as the absence of vowel length distinctions, the use of spelling pronunciatio…
The Corpus of Brunei English (CoBE): An introduction
The Corpus of Brunei English (CoBE) is a large-scale collection of English spoken and written by Bruneians obtained from both formal and informal domains. This article presents the ongoing process of building the first corpus for Brunei English with a two-fold goal in mind: to provide a readily available resource centre for researchers who wish to study Brunei English; and to contribute to the existing corpus on World Englishes, thereby placing B…
Modal verbs in Brunei English online discourse: A corpus-pragmatic analysis of the Reddit Serious Discussion sub-corpus of CoBE
Modal verbs express epistemic stance, obligation, and dynamic meaning, making them a key resource for investigating variation across World Englishes. Yet modal pragmatics in Brunei English remains unexplored. This study offers the first detailed account, drawing on the Reddit Serious Discussion sub-corpus of the Corpus of Brunei English (CoBE), comprising 771,376 tokens across 323 documents. Frequency and collocational analysis are combined with …
Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Pronunciation (2 works) · Varieties of English (2 works) · World Englishes (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Consonant (1 works)