Cultural heritage in Malaysia: a critical discourse analysis of local newspaper
Cultural heritage is one of the prominent components in contributing towards the development of the country's tourism sector. Although research on World Heritage Site at the international level had started in the year 1945, instead in Malaysia, it only began around the 1980s. While still being...
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| Language: | English English English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | https://etd.uum.edu.my/9061/1/s95125_01.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9061/2/s95125_02.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/9061/3/s95125_references.docx https://etd.uum.edu.my/9061/ |
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| Summary: | Cultural heritage is one of the prominent components in contributing towards the development of the country's tourism sector. Although research on World Heritage Site at the international level had started in the year 1945, instead in Malaysia, it only began around the 1980s. While still being relatively new, only a few studies have been conducted on conservation in the country, especially within the world heritage sites. The current study emphasizes on the tangible heritage vis-à-vis historic buildings, and with their connecting issue on the conservation matter within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) world heritage sites in the country. This study sets out to further explore the issue of historic buildings conservation in two historical cities of Melaka and George Town through the portrayal (consisting of text and image) of local newspapers (in bilingual), which are The Star and Berita Harian (BH). The study employs the approaches of content analysis and visual semiotic to examine both newspapers. A total of 503 articles (137 from The Star and 366 from BH) are obtained by utilization of the keywords. Based on the findings, the coverage of The Star was via both text and image specifically on the historic buildings conservation to both historical cities and in contrary, for BH thus, it just merely portrays on the text only. The result also shows that both newspapers emphasized more on intangible rather than tangible and natural heritage. Both newspapers indeed acknowledged the importance of conservation matter. Therefore it is pivotal to have a balance portrayal between the text and image. This research contributes significantly to the further development of visual communication on cultural heritage preservation in the country. |
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