Helming Malaysia: Najib Razak's metaphors in Malaysian supply bills
This paper discusses the vocational roles constructed by Najib Razak, the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia for himself, his government, and relational identities for Malaysian people and others through Supply Bills. I model the study on Charteris-Black’s Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) and Sack’s...
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Global Council on Anthropological Linguistics
2023
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/104467/1/104467_Helming%20Malaysia.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/104467/6/104467_Helming%20Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/104467/ https://jala.pub/v5-i1/ |
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| Summary: | This paper discusses the vocational roles constructed by Najib Razak, the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia for himself, his government, and relational identities for Malaysian people and others through Supply Bills. I model the study on Charteris-Black’s Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) and Sack’s Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) as frameworks.
The findings indicate that Najib Razak and his government enacted the role as a ship captain where the Malaysian people were positioned as passengers sailing in the sea of world economic and heading towards a status as a developed nation. Through these metaphors, the people were reminded that without the government as helm of the ship, it is to reach the intended destination. Therefore, the use of metaphors in the Supply Bills serve predicative, empathetic, ideological and mythical purposes to legitmize both the government and its purposes as agents of governmentality. |
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