“Is Selangor in deep water?”: a corpus-driven account of air/water in the Malaysian Hansard Corpus (MHC)

• Main Authors: Norsimah Mat Awal,, Azhar Jaludin,, Anis Nadiah Che Abdul Rahman,, Imran Ho Abdullah,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14083/1/28556-102502-1-PB.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14083/; http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1188

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 r...