The Perception of Kinship Terms in a Malaysian Politician’s Open Letter
Classical Malay kinship terms are a feature of modern Malaysian political discourse (Omar, 2020). In parliamentary proceedings, they are employed by both male and female... Read More
On Readers’ Ability to Identify and Explicitate Political Implicatures in On-line Media Discourse: The Kommersant Telegram Channel Case Study
Today’s role of Telegram channels in news dissemination, especially among younger audiences, cannot be underestimated. Telegram has now become “an ally in the struggle against... Read More
Intercultural Pragmatics in Multilingual Ecologies
Kecskes (2022) describes the concern of Intercultural Pragmatics as “social encounters between human beings who have different first languages, but communicate in a common language,... Read More
Relevance, Imagined audiences, and Broadcast Communication
Relevance theory is a hearer-oriented framework for understanding utterance interpretation. The relevance of an utterance is assessed from the perspective of the hearer, and the... Read More
“Britain’s Obama moment”: Rishi Sunak’s rise to UK prime minister viewed across intralingual spaces
Rishi Sunak’s ascent to the prime minister’s office (25th October 2022) made breaking news around the globe. The first person of colour to lead a... Read More
Cross-Cultural Dialogue in the China-US Trade War: A Corpus-Assisted Rhetorical Analysis of the FOX vs. CGTN Host Debate
This paper centres on the ongoing China-US trade dispute with a case study of an English-language debate between two hosts, Trish Regan from FOX Business... Read More