Helming Malaysia: Najib Razak's metaphors in Malaysian supply bills

• Main Author: Rashid Ali, Farrah Diebaa
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Global Council on Anthropological Linguistics 2023
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); JQ715 Politics and Government in Malaysia; P Philology. Linguistics
• 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/

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...