Nor Fariza Mohd Nor
Biographic Data
| ID | 796985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nor Fariza Mohd Nor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nor Fariza Mohd |
| FAMILY NAME | Nor |
| SIGNATURE | NOR N F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7929-351X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
"The "Transition Generation”
Climate change remains a heavily debated global challenge, yet public understanding is frequently obscured by abstract scientific narratives. This exploratory study utilizes Moscovici’s Social Representation Theory (SRT) to examine how a group of Generation Z in Malaysia, commonly referred to as the "Transition Generation", perceives climate change and defines their role in addressing it. This qualitative research used semi-structured group inter…
Posting back at patriarchy
Across digital platforms, women’s participation in public discourse remains marked by risk, scrutiny, and uneven power. While social media is often framed as a space of empowerment, it frequently mirrors offline hierarchies, reproducing gendered surveillance, backlash, and moral regulation. In conservative societies like Pakistan, young women who speak publicly online do so under intense cultural pressure, where expectations around modesty, silen…
A Systematic Literature Review on Corpus-based Studies in Malaysian Media Discourse
Media discourse plays a vital role in shaping public perceptions, constructing ideologies, and influencing societal narratives. However, the study of media discourse in the Malaysian context has been relatively limited, particularly through a corpus-based lens. This review systematically identifies the research trends in Malaysian media discourse using a corpus-based approach. The included papers were extracted from two databases, namely Scopus a…
ChatGPT as a Tool in Developing Research and Language Skills in a Research Methodology Course
ChatGPT has been utilised across various applications, such as language translation, content generation, and language modelling. This empirical study examines how this technological tool is used by a class of postgraduate students to develop their research and language skills. 36 participants, comprising MA, MPhil, and PhD students, were involved. Data was collected through a questionnaire survey and interviews. Results from the questionnaire ind…
Food, Identity, Power and Multicultural Solidarity in Preeta Samarasan’s Tale of a Dreamer’s Son
The role of food from a sociocultural perspective is one that has been increasingly explored in cultural narratives and academic inquiry in the past few decades. In literature, food is used as a tool to evoke the senses and convey meaning about identity, culture, relationships and emotions. Food can be instrumental in shaping personal and cultural identities, community dynamics and embedding ideologies, particularly in culturally diverse societie…
What Is Corruption and Bribery? A Social Representations Study From the Views of Young Adults
Corruption and bribery are often seen as the same in public messages, but people might understand them in different ways. These varying perceptions can significantly influence how anti-corruption efforts are received and understood. Therefore, we explored the perceived definitions of “corruption” and “bribery” among young adults ( N = 253, M_age = 21.32; 59.3% female) using the structural approach of Social Representation Theory as the underlying…
Voices of resistance and solidarity
Three Key Dimensions of Climate Change from Opinion News in a Malaysian Newspaper
Previous studies have pointed to a notable increase in public interest on climate change using the survey method. These studies documented public opinion on climate change using survey method to derive data and establish findings. The current study is based on public opinion in Malaysia regarding climate change and the data was gleaned from the nation’s opinion news. It adopts a corpus linguistics approach together with a sentiment analysis to id…
Promoting Medical Tourism
The medical tourism industry, seriously affected by the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), must effectively communicate its online promotional messages to boost the sector. Given that the medical tourism sector is a global one, cultural diversity is also essential. Studies on cultural heterogeneity, however, have only looked at one type of discourse, primarily the linguistic mode. Previous research failed to consider the multimodal approach,…
The politeness of criticism speech acts in Japanese and Minangkabau films
Criticism tends to be a face-threatening speech act that can endanger social relationships if not managed using appropriate strategies, especially in the intercultural context. This study aims to compare and contrast the politeness of criticism speech acts used in Japanese and Minangkabau languages as depicted in film series. The data on criticism speech acts in this study were collected from eleven Japanese film series with a total duration of 5…
A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis Case Study of Public Opinion on Climate Change in Malaysia
Climate change is a global emergency that necessitates urgent action from policymakers and the public. Public opinion plays a crucial role in shaping climate change policy, making it essential to understand how people perceive and respond to the issue. Studies on public opinion on climate change are emerging, but are lacking in examining linguistic aspects. The present study intends to conduct a linguistic analysis of public opinion news to ident…
The Metaphorical and Metonymical Conceptualizations of the Term Sea (Hai) in the Four-Character Chinese Idioms
This paper investigates the term "sea" (hai) in the four-character Chinese idioms according to conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory, attempting to illustrate their conceptualization, determine their possible underlying motivations, and explore Chinese maritime thought and culture. Based on idiomatic expressions, three types of conceptual metaphors are identified: abstract qualities of concrete entities are the sea, abstract entity is sea, and …
Media Report About Climate Change in an English Online Malaysian Newspaper Through Thematic and Discourse Analysis Approaches
Climate change studies are mainly focused on disaster management and inundated with scientific jargons that the public could not fathom. Thus, the dissemination of climate change discourse to the public has been less effective due to lack of information and understanding which explains the lack of public engagement and participation. Studies on climate change that consider linguistics aspects are beginning to emerge, but are still lacking. Theref…
Multimodal Communicative Acts of Thailand’s Private Hospital Website Promoting Medical Tourism
Websites of private hospitals are significant channels for delivering the communicative acts in relation to information of hospitals’ facilities and expertise to international medical tourists. However, studies that involved communicative acts have mainly focused on examining the language mode. It overlooked the multimodal perspective which hinder prospective international medical tourists from receiving the intended promotional messages. This st…
Malaysian Food Culture as a Communal Identity Marker in Shih-Li Kow’s The Sum of Our Follies
Food is deeply rooted in cultural traditions and has been a ubiquitous and prominent element in cultural productions and narratives of cultures around the world. In literature, food is often employed literally and metaphorically to evoke the senses or communicate meaning about the identity, culture, or emotions of people. This article examines the connection between food and cultural identity in multicultural Malaysia as represented in the novel,…
A Functional Analysis of Theme and Thematic Progression of Private Hospital Websites
Medical tourism has been seriously affected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that has become a huge threat to global economy. In mitigating this issue, attention needs to be given to the online promotional message strategy to boost medical tourism. However, there is a scarcity of work on medical tourism promotional discourse from the textual function perspective despite the considerable number of studies in other types of discourse. This st…
Visual analysis of self-presentation of teenagers and emerging adults on Facebook
Facebook has become a worldwide phenomenon and is one of the greatest important means of communication between people. Given that teenagers and emerging adults are typically concerned with peer acceptance, physical appearance and the self-impressions they convey, they are active users of social networking sites (SNS) because these sites provide platforms for them to connect to their peers and facilitate identity construction and experimentation w…
Public Perceptions on Climate Change
Public perception on climate change is a paramount component that affects the implementation of adaptation and mitigation measures. Taking into account the public perceptions on the issue may assist decision-makers in producing appropriate strategies to ameliorate the impacts of climate change. A corpus-driven sentiment analysis approach was done to classify the polarity of Malaysian public perceptions, identify the sentiment lexicon, and analyse…
Health is Wealth
In view of the increase mental health cases in Malaysia, it is timely to examine how Malaysian newspapers portray mental health issues. A corpus-driven approach was employed to identify the adjective collocates for the node word mental health, determine the semantic grouping of the collocates and investigate the portrayal of mental health issues in two newspapers. A total of 585 news articles, from January 2020 to December 2020 were collected fro…
Corpus Driven Analysis of News Reports about Covid-19 in a Malaysian Online Newspaper
Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 th March, 2020. Scientists and researchers immediately took interests to find a vaccine. While researchers in various discipline, particularly in medicine, began to study about the virus to help us understand the situation from various perspectives, there is limited research on linguistics analysis to date about Covid-19. Therefore, the present study aims to contribute…
A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word ‘ekonomi’ in Malaysian Hansard Corpus
Politicians constantly talk about wealth, power and education, which is often justified on the grounds that it will aid economic growth, which in turn will raise living standard. Thus, many economic issues are seen through the eyes of political beliefs. This paper reports on a corpus-driven analysis around the word ekonomi (economy) in the Malaysian Hansard Corpus. The objectives are to analyse the trend concerning the word ekonomi and to find ou…
Linguistic Representation of Violence in Judicial Opinions in Malaysia
Violent behaviour is understood as being a social and unilateral action initiated by one party. It is social in nature as it occurs within an interpersonal context and unilateral per se because it involves action taken by one individual against the well-being of another. Judges use strategic discursive strategies to describe the accounts of the crime in their judicial decisions. This research aims to investigate the language used by judges to des…
Advice-Giving Roles and Strategies in Selected Faculty Member-Graduate Student Advising
In mentoring graduate students, it is hard to deny the ubiquity of graduate student advising. Faculty members, who are usually engaged in advising to tease out problems and suggest solutions, could often times be faced with negative attributions concerning faculty members’ competence, as well as receive unaligned responses rather than collaborative understanding of issues or recommendations. While previous studies on advising may have focused on …
Metacognitive Online Reading and Navigational Strategies by Science and Technology University Students
Reading has taken a new dimension, where students in higher institutions are consistently required to read massive amounts of online materials to gain knowledge, complete tasks and assignments. Hence, the ability to read online effectively is becoming increasingly important, as students need to utilize, understand and respond to online materials. However, most university undergraduates lack the ability to read effectively and critically. Therefor…
Kajian Jati Diri Kakitangan dalam Organisasi Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (A Study on Self-Identity Concept Among Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Staff)
Isu jati diri merupakan aspek penting dalam organisasi untuk memupuk penglibatan dan rasa setia individu terhadap organisasi. Berlandaskan konsep jati diri, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui konsep jati diri dalam kalangan warga Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), di mana hasil kajian ini akan dapat mengenal pasti perkara yang perlu dilakukan untuk memupuk perasaan jati diri terhadap UKM. Teori yang mendasari kajian ini ialah teori Identiti…
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Discursive Legitimation of Human Values
Construction of identities can be manifested in the form of competing legitimation discourses over an intercultural issue. This study investigates the power relations between local identities and global identities over the discursive legitimation of human values in global media discourse. Yemen Times (YT) is the most circulated English-language newspaper in Yemen. YT can be voice of Yemen to the world through the use of the English language and t…
Legitimation Analysis
Research in discourse analysis has demonstrated that power can be illuminated through analyzing discourses. Centered on the notion that power and legitimation go hand-in-hand, these discourses are distinguished by specific linguistic components. One of the ways to explore how legitimation is tranquilized is to scrutinize its discourses, which some scholars (Wang, 2006; Van Leeuwen, 2007) argue have the precedence to control some of everyday, soci…
Metacognitive Online Reading and Navigational Strategies by Science and Technology University Students
Reading has taken a new dimension, where students in higher institutions are consistently required to read massive amounts of online materials to gain knowledge, complete tasks and assignments. Hence, the ability to read online effectively is becoming increasingly important, as students need to utilize, understand and respond to online materials. However, most university undergraduates lack the ability to read effectively and critically. Therefor…
Kajian Jati Diri Kakitangan dalam Organisasi Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (A Study on Self-Identity Concept Among Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Staff)
Isu jati diri merupakan aspek penting dalam organisasi untuk memupuk penglibatan dan rasa setia individu terhadap organisasi. Berlandaskan konsep jati diri, kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui konsep jati diri dalam kalangan warga Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), di mana hasil kajian ini akan dapat mengenal pasti perkara yang perlu dilakukan untuk memupuk perasaan jati diri terhadap UKM. Teori yang mendasari kajian ini ialah teori Identiti…
Advice-Giving Roles and Strategies in Selected Faculty Member-Graduate Student Advising
In mentoring graduate students, it is hard to deny the ubiquity of graduate student advising. Faculty members, who are usually engaged in advising to tease out problems and suggest solutions, could often times be faced with negative attributions concerning faculty members’ competence, as well as receive unaligned responses rather than collaborative understanding of issues or recommendations. While previous studies on advising may have focused on …
A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word ‘ekonomi’ in Malaysian Hansard Corpus
Politicians constantly talk about wealth, power and education, which is often justified on the grounds that it will aid economic growth, which in turn will raise living standard. Thus, many economic issues are seen through the eyes of political beliefs. This paper reports on a corpus-driven analysis around the word ekonomi (economy) in the Malaysian Hansard Corpus. The objectives are to analyse the trend concerning the word ekonomi and to find ou…
Linguistic Representation of Violence in Judicial Opinions in Malaysia
Violent behaviour is understood as being a social and unilateral action initiated by one party. It is social in nature as it occurs within an interpersonal context and unilateral per se because it involves action taken by one individual against the well-being of another. Judges use strategic discursive strategies to describe the accounts of the crime in their judicial decisions. This research aims to investigate the language used by judges to des…
Corpus Driven Analysis of News Reports about Covid-19 in a Malaysian Online Newspaper
Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 th March, 2020. Scientists and researchers immediately took interests to find a vaccine. While researchers in various discipline, particularly in medicine, began to study about the virus to help us understand the situation from various perspectives, there is limited research on linguistics analysis to date about Covid-19. Therefore, the present study aims to contribute…
A Functional Analysis of Theme and Thematic Progression of Private Hospital Websites
Medical tourism has been seriously affected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that has become a huge threat to global economy. In mitigating this issue, attention needs to be given to the online promotional message strategy to boost medical tourism. However, there is a scarcity of work on medical tourism promotional discourse from the textual function perspective despite the considerable number of studies in other types of discourse. This st…
Visual analysis of self-presentation of teenagers and emerging adults on Facebook
Facebook has become a worldwide phenomenon and is one of the greatest important means of communication between people. Given that teenagers and emerging adults are typically concerned with peer acceptance, physical appearance and the self-impressions they convey, they are active users of social networking sites (SNS) because these sites provide platforms for them to connect to their peers and facilitate identity construction and experimentation w…
Public Perceptions on Climate Change
Public perception on climate change is a paramount component that affects the implementation of adaptation and mitigation measures. Taking into account the public perceptions on the issue may assist decision-makers in producing appropriate strategies to ameliorate the impacts of climate change. A corpus-driven sentiment analysis approach was done to classify the polarity of Malaysian public perceptions, identify the sentiment lexicon, and analyse…
Health is Wealth
In view of the increase mental health cases in Malaysia, it is timely to examine how Malaysian newspapers portray mental health issues. A corpus-driven approach was employed to identify the adjective collocates for the node word mental health, determine the semantic grouping of the collocates and investigate the portrayal of mental health issues in two newspapers. A total of 585 news articles, from January 2020 to December 2020 were collected fro…
Media Report About Climate Change in an English Online Malaysian Newspaper Through Thematic and Discourse Analysis Approaches
Climate change studies are mainly focused on disaster management and inundated with scientific jargons that the public could not fathom. Thus, the dissemination of climate change discourse to the public has been less effective due to lack of information and understanding which explains the lack of public engagement and participation. Studies on climate change that consider linguistics aspects are beginning to emerge, but are still lacking. Theref…
Multimodal Communicative Acts of Thailand’s Private Hospital Website Promoting Medical Tourism
Websites of private hospitals are significant channels for delivering the communicative acts in relation to information of hospitals’ facilities and expertise to international medical tourists. However, studies that involved communicative acts have mainly focused on examining the language mode. It overlooked the multimodal perspective which hinder prospective international medical tourists from receiving the intended promotional messages. This st…
Malaysian Food Culture as a Communal Identity Marker in Shih-Li Kow’s The Sum of Our Follies
Food is deeply rooted in cultural traditions and has been a ubiquitous and prominent element in cultural productions and narratives of cultures around the world. In literature, food is often employed literally and metaphorically to evoke the senses or communicate meaning about the identity, culture, or emotions of people. This article examines the connection between food and cultural identity in multicultural Malaysia as represented in the novel,…
The politeness of criticism speech acts in Japanese and Minangkabau films
Criticism tends to be a face-threatening speech act that can endanger social relationships if not managed using appropriate strategies, especially in the intercultural context. This study aims to compare and contrast the politeness of criticism speech acts used in Japanese and Minangkabau languages as depicted in film series. The data on criticism speech acts in this study were collected from eleven Japanese film series with a total duration of 5…
A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis Case Study of Public Opinion on Climate Change in Malaysia
Climate change is a global emergency that necessitates urgent action from policymakers and the public. Public opinion plays a crucial role in shaping climate change policy, making it essential to understand how people perceive and respond to the issue. Studies on public opinion on climate change are emerging, but are lacking in examining linguistic aspects. The present study intends to conduct a linguistic analysis of public opinion news to ident…
The Metaphorical and Metonymical Conceptualizations of the Term Sea (Hai) in the Four-Character Chinese Idioms
This paper investigates the term "sea" (hai) in the four-character Chinese idioms according to conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory, attempting to illustrate their conceptualization, determine their possible underlying motivations, and explore Chinese maritime thought and culture. Based on idiomatic expressions, three types of conceptual metaphors are identified: abstract qualities of concrete entities are the sea, abstract entity is sea, and …
Three Key Dimensions of Climate Change from Opinion News in a Malaysian Newspaper
Previous studies have pointed to a notable increase in public interest on climate change using the survey method. These studies documented public opinion on climate change using survey method to derive data and establish findings. The current study is based on public opinion in Malaysia regarding climate change and the data was gleaned from the nation’s opinion news. It adopts a corpus linguistics approach together with a sentiment analysis to id…
Promoting Medical Tourism
The medical tourism industry, seriously affected by the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), must effectively communicate its online promotional messages to boost the sector. Given that the medical tourism sector is a global one, cultural diversity is also essential. Studies on cultural heterogeneity, however, have only looked at one type of discourse, primarily the linguistic mode. Previous research failed to consider the multimodal approach,…
Food, Identity, Power and Multicultural Solidarity in Preeta Samarasan’s Tale of a Dreamer’s Son
The role of food from a sociocultural perspective is one that has been increasingly explored in cultural narratives and academic inquiry in the past few decades. In literature, food is used as a tool to evoke the senses and convey meaning about identity, culture, relationships and emotions. Food can be instrumental in shaping personal and cultural identities, community dynamics and embedding ideologies, particularly in culturally diverse societie…
What Is Corruption and Bribery? A Social Representations Study From the Views of Young Adults
Corruption and bribery are often seen as the same in public messages, but people might understand them in different ways. These varying perceptions can significantly influence how anti-corruption efforts are received and understood. Therefore, we explored the perceived definitions of “corruption” and “bribery” among young adults ( N = 253, M_age = 21.32; 59.3% female) using the structural approach of Social Representation Theory as the underlying…
Voices of resistance and solidarity
"The "Transition Generation”
Climate change remains a heavily debated global challenge, yet public understanding is frequently obscured by abstract scientific narratives. This exploratory study utilizes Moscovici’s Social Representation Theory (SRT) to examine how a group of Generation Z in Malaysia, commonly referred to as the "Transition Generation", perceives climate change and defines their role in addressing it. This qualitative research used semi-structured group inter…
Posting back at patriarchy
Across digital platforms, women’s participation in public discourse remains marked by risk, scrutiny, and uneven power. While social media is often framed as a space of empowerment, it frequently mirrors offline hierarchies, reproducing gendered surveillance, backlash, and moral regulation. In conservative societies like Pakistan, young women who speak publicly online do so under intense cultural pressure, where expectations around modesty, silen…
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