Helming Malaysia: Najib Razak’s metaphors in Malaysian Supply Bills

• Main Author: Rashid Ali, Farrah Diebaa
• Format: Proceeding Paper
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: The GLOCAL, the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics Publishers 2023
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); J General legislative and executive papers
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/111516/12/111516_Helming%20Malaysia%20Najib%20Razak%E2%80%99s%20metaphors%20in%20Malaysian%20Supply%20Bills.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/111516/17/111516_Helming%20Malaysia%20Najib%20Razak%E2%80%99s%20Metaphors%20in%20Malaysian%20Supply%20Bills_Scopus.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/111516/2/EMAIL%20-%20INDEXED%20PROCEEDING%20HELMING.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/111516/

This paper discusses the vocational roles constructed by Najib Razak, the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia for himself, the government, and the relational identities for the people and others in nine Supply Bills read by him. This study was modelled upon Charteris-Black’s Critical Metaphor Analysis...