المؤلفون: Lee Kam-Fong, Chan Mei Yuit, Ali Afida Mohamad

المصدر: Psychology of Language and Communication, Vol 28, Iss 1, Pp 169-208 (2024)

مصطلحات موضوعية: online romance fraud, user profiles, computer mediated communication, judgement evaluation, societal endorsement, linguistic analysis, Oral communication. Speech, P95-95.6, Psychology, BF1-990

الوصف: Online romance fraud is a crime carried out largely using language, as the victim and scammer typically do not meet in person in their entire interaction. As a language-enabled crime, a linguistic analysis of scam communication can shed light on how language is used to attract victims and influence their thoughts and actions. This study examined the first stage in the online scam strategy, that is, the putting up of a dating profile (user biography) on online dating service websites. The analysis employs the judgement evaluation framework of appraisal theory to examine the extent to which scammer profiles differ from a set of general user profiles in terms of their use of social approval as a linguistic strategy to attract a more compliant victim type. Findings from the study can help in raising public awareness about how linguistic resources are employed in luring potential victims in scammer dating profiles.

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2083-8506

URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/b11f9a2126564549877732f8407d6708

المؤلفون: Lee, Kam-Fong^{Aff1, Aff2}, Chan, Mei Yuit^{Aff1, IDs41300022001697_cor2}, Mohamad Ali, Afida

المصدر: Crime Prevention and Community Safety. 25(1):20-46

المؤلفون: Jibril, Ahmed Tanimu, Mohamad Ali, Afida, Mohd Kasim, Zalina, Chan, Mei Yuit

المصدر: African Identities; May2024, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p277-292, 16p

مصطلحات موضوعية: NORMALIZATION (Sociology), FUNCTIONAL discourse grammar, LINGUISTIC analysis

مستخلص: This study examines the linguistic resources employed in the discursive reproduction and normalisation of national unity, as constructed by the private sponsors of newspaper congratulatory announcements (NCAs) in Nigeria during the period between 2011 and 2016. The analysis is focused on how the processes of lexicalisation and metaphorisation were utilised in realising such discursive purposes. The study is theoretically informed bysystemic functional grammar (SFG) and theory of conceptual metaphors. The analysis includes linguistic analysis and qualitative content analysis (QCA) in identifying the lexical items as well as the figures of speech used in the NCAs. Findings from the analysis revealed that positively charged lexical items have been employed by the non-state sponsors of the NCAs in an attempt to recontextualise and normalise the unity discourse in the Nigerian context, which goes against the status quo and the lived experiences of the masses. Moreover, the problem of unity is also metaphorised, naturalised and reproduced in the NCAs in another attempt to transform and manipulate people's thoughts and practices through such a metaphorical construction of unity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Khan, Munir, Chan, Mei Yuit, Mohamad Ali, Afida, Mohd Isa, Muhammad, Narayanan, Prepageran, Abu Bakar, Zulkiflee, Yap, Ngee Thai, Foo, Yoke Loong, Hoo, Fan Kee, Hod, Rafidah

المصدر: In English for Specific Purposes July 2021 63:107-119

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المؤلفون: Tay, Li Chia, Chan, Mei Yuit, Yap, Ngee Thai, Wong, Bee Eng

المصدر: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 2016 Jan 01. 172(4), 479-509.

URL الوصول: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44325675

المؤلفون: Lee, Kam-Fong, Chan, Mei Yuit, Ali, Afida Mohamad

المصدر: Psychology of Language and Communication; January 2023, Vol. 28 Issue: 1 p169-208, 40p

مستخلص: Online romance fraud is a crime carried out largely using language, as the victim and scammer typically do not meet in person in their entire interaction. As a language-enabled crime, a linguistic analysis of scam communication can shed light on how language is used to attract victims and influence their thoughts and actions. This study examined the first stage in the online scam strategy, that is, the putting up of a dating profile (user biography) on online dating service websites. The analysis employs the judgement evaluation framework of appraisal theory to examine the extent to which scammer profiles differ from a set of general user profiles in terms of their use of social approval as a linguistic strategy to attract a more compliant victim type. Findings from the study can help in raising public awareness about how linguistic resources are employed in luring potential victims in scammer dating profiles.

المؤلفون: Jamal, Noorjan Hussein, Chan, Mei Yuit, Rafik-Galea, Shameem, Yap, Ngee Thai, Lee, Geok Imm, Rani, Puteri Azaziah Megat Abd

المصدر: Discourse & Interaction; 2022, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p51-76, 26p

مصطلحات موضوعية: TRAINING of veterinarians, MALAYSIANS, VETERINARIANS, COMMUNICATION barriers, SYMPTOMS

مستخلص: Question design by medical practitioners has been shown to have important consequences on how patients present their problems in clinical consultations. Linguistic structure of questions as part of question design implements different communicative and pragmatic functions, and hence, affects patients' response in different ways. This study examined types of questions asked by veterinarians in the problem presentation phase of the clinical consultation in relation to their linguistic forms and functions. Veterinary illness consultations were video-recorded and veterinarians' question types, their linguistic forms and clients' response in the interaction were identified and examined. The results show that the general inquiry question implemented using the open-ended wh-question structure and the closed-ended declarative interrogative are the preferred forms used by veterinarians to solicit patients' presenting problems from clients. Also, alignment of the linguistic form of questions with their pragmatic functions and the discourse goal of problem presentation affects clients' ascription of veterinarians' actions. The findings from the study can inform veterinarian communication training for more effective veterinarian-client communication to accomplish problem presentation in clinical consultations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Jibril, Ahmed Tanimu, Ali, Afida Mohamad, Kasim, Zalina Mohamad, Chan Mei Yuit

المصدر: GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies; Aug2021, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p194-214, 21p

مصطلحات موضوعية: PATRIOTISM, CRITICAL discourse analysis, CONCORD, CORPORATE image, NATIONAL emblems, WAR memorials

مصطلحات جغرافية: NIGERIA

مستخلص: The realisation of genuine national unity within its ethnically diverse society has always been the primary challenge facing Nigeria since its Independence in 1960. This study investigated the discursive recontextualisation of national unity through newspaper congratulatory announcements (NCAs) within Nigeria's ethnically diverse society, focusing on the pseudopatriotic undertones of the privately sponsored NCAs. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the agenda-setting theory informed the theoretical underpinning of the study. The data is drawn from four major dailies, covering the period between 2011 and 2016. Multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) and the visual grammar (VG) are used as analytical methods to examine 97 privately sponsored NCAs. Dominant themes in the NCAs are highlighted along with the type of national unity projected in the NCAs. The analysis revealed that, in the name of promoting unity, private individuals and global conglomerates utilize pseudo acts to boost profits, enhance customer index, and construct their corporate image in the eyes of the ruling regimes and the general public in their host communities. It was also found that the envisioned future of the country as a united reality appears to contradict the common perception and lived experiences of the people. This study is meant to highlight the way certain ideologies are promoted and further interests are realised through the print media in the name of pseudo-patriotism. Further research may investigate comparable representations likely found in other newspaper genres as well as additional semiotic resources such as Nigeria's Civil War artefacts and monuments, statues, and other national symbols. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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