The main tendencies of discourse representation of immigrant workers in Malaysia: a critical discourse analysis in The Star and Malaysiakini online news portals
Being one of the most industrialised nations in Southeast Asia, Malaysia has been receiving many immigrant workers from neighbouringcountries to provide labor for the economic expansion. The government was heavily criticised following its announcement on the intak...
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my.iium.irep.1099052024-01-11T00:54:17Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/109905/ The main tendencies of discourse representation of immigrant workers in Malaysia: a critical discourse analysis in The Star and Malaysiakini online news portals Mohd Sobri Paridaluddin, Noorfarida Filzah Md Zamin, Ainul Azmin H Social Sciences (General) PE English Being one of the most industrialised nations in Southeast Asia, Malaysia has been receiving many immigrant workers from neighbouringcountries to provide labor for the economic expansion. The government was heavily criticised following its announcement on the intake of 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers into the country. The local media have profoundly reported on the issues of immigrant workers in Malaysia. This study focuses on the main tendencies of discourse representation of immigrant workers in Malaysia, specifically in The Star and Malaysiakini online news portals. A total of 20 news articles, 10 from each news portal concerning the issues of migrant workers from year 2016 to early 2017 are analysed according to Fairclough’s (1995) Discourse Representation in Media Discourse framework. Each phrase undergoes five level parameter analysis to investigate the language and the strategies employed. This research is to identify the main tendenciesof discourse representation of immigrant workers in Malaysia in The Star Online and Malaysiakini. As a whole, both online news portals maintained the ideational meaning of the primary discourse in their news reports IIUM Press 2023-12-28 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/109905/7/109905_The%20main%20tendencies%20of%20discourse%20representation_SCOPUS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/109905/8/109905_The%20main%20tendencies%20of%20discourse%20representation.pdf Mohd Sobri Paridaluddin, Noorfarida Filzah and Md Zamin, Ainul Azmin (2023) The main tendencies of discourse representation of immigrant workers in Malaysia: a critical discourse analysis in The Star and Malaysiakini online news portals. Intellectual Discourse, 31 (2). pp. 445-473. ISSN 0128-4878 E-ISSN 2289-5639 https://journals.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/id/article/view/1962/1053 |
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Being one of the most industrialised nations in Southeast Asia, Malaysia has been receiving many immigrant workers from neighbouringcountries to provide labor for the economic expansion. The government was heavily criticised following its announcement on the intake of 1.5 million Bangladeshi workers into the country. The local media have profoundly reported on the issues of immigrant workers in Malaysia. This study focuses on the main tendencies of discourse representation of immigrant workers in Malaysia, specifically in The Star and Malaysiakini online news portals. A total of 20 news articles, 10 from each news portal concerning the issues of migrant workers from year 2016 to early 2017 are analysed according to Fairclough’s (1995) Discourse Representation in Media Discourse framework. Each phrase undergoes five level parameter analysis to investigate the language and the strategies employed. This research is to identify the main tendenciesof discourse representation of immigrant workers in Malaysia in The Star Online and Malaysiakini. As a whole, both online news portals maintained the ideational meaning of the primary discourse in their news reports |
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