Vol 31, No 3 (2025)

September 2025

Table of Contents

Articles

Telling Your Side of the Story: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Israel-(non) Normalising Middle East Countries
Raith Zeher Abid, Thulfiqar Hussein Altahmazi, Zuhair Abdulameer Abdulrahman
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1-16
Restorative Rhetoric and Ideological Positioning in Leaders’ Social Media Crisis Communication on Food Security
Nor Azila Hasbullah, Ramesh Nair, Isma Noornisa Ismail
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17-35
News Media Representation of China’s Three-child Policy in China Daily: A Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis
Can Wang, Mohammad Fadzeli Jaafar, Anis Nadiah Che Abdul Rahman
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36-51
Disrupting Masculine Hegemony: Feminist Stylistics and the Discursive Construction of Vulnerable Masculinity in The King’s Speech (2010)
Nur Syuhada Mohd Radzi
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52-73
Text Mining Analysis of Malaysia’s National Image in China Daily
Zhang Jie, Mohd Azidan Abdul Jabar, Farhana Muslim Mohd Jalis
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74-90
Do Modern Arab Televangelists Argue or Preach? A Pragma Dialectical Analysis of Mustafa Husni's Live the Moment TV Show
Nahla Mounir, Salwa Mohamed Farag, Mona Fouad Attia
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91-110
Rhetoric in the Translation of Selected Kinship Terms in the Holy Quran into French and English
Noor Hamid Abdullah Al-Shams, Sarmad Mohammed Essa Al-Jbori
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111-126
Neo-Orientalist Representations of Muslims in the 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World Senior High School Textbooks
Mosa-ab Z Mangurun
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127-144
Servant Subversions: Reading the British Anxiety over ‘Native Nuisance’ as Infra-Politics in Anglo-Indian Household Manuals
Francis Banerjee, Arindam Das
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145-160
Relating Behavioural Intentions towards Collaborative Discussions and Language Performance of ESL Online Game Players in MMORPG Context
Rino Shafierul Azizie Shahrir Raghbir, Lee Luan - Ng, Shin Yi Chew
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161-183
To Mix or Not to Mix? A Study of English-Vietnamese Code-Mixing in Vietnamese Weekly Magazines
Ton Nu My Nhat, Hoang Thi Thu Hien
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184-207
Using Digital Tools and Storytelling for Transforming the English Language Pronunciation in Thai Tertiary Contexts
Varangkana Pusiripinyo, Siwaporn Saito
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208-225
Tracing the Spectral Bodies and Ghostly Landscapes in Iraqi Fiction
Yusra Ashraf, Aasia Nusrat, Sardaraz khan
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226-238
“What Does the Virus Look Like…?”: Disability, Pandemic, Senility and the Bodily Embodiment of Crises in Namita Gokhale’s The Blind Matriarch
Sharmila Vairamanickam, Sivakumar Kuppusamy
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239-252
Unmasking Slow Violence: Ecological Imperialism and Climate Justice in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse
Sathikulameen A, Vijayakumar S, Naresh G V, Abdul Hadi H, Noormohamed S
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253-263
A New Historicist Analysis of Gendered History in Mo Yan’s Soaring
Anwei Tu, Halimah Mohamed Ali
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264-276
Language Innovations in Digital Literature: Neologisms in Filipino Alternative Universe Fanfiction
Angel Nikki Sales Henson, Margaux Julia Amacio Manzano, Aldrin Ludovice Salipande
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278-297
Rejecting “His” Food: An Animal Ecofeminist and Eco-Deconstructive Reading of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2007)
Shaimaa Ahmed Elateek
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298-311
Koch and al-Attas on Solitary Freedom: An Analysis of Bryce Andrews’s Ranch Memoir
Mohd Zaimin Haris Fathillah, Ravichandran Vengadasamy
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312-326
Spiritual Beliefs in Early 20th Century Arab Culture Amidst a Pandemic: Taha Hussein's Al-Ayyam
Nur Asyiqin Zohkarnain, Firuz-Akhtar Lubis, Zulkarnain Mohamed
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327-340
Media Representation of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in Arab and Western Outlets: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Awham Rashid Mohammed, Ashinida - Aladdin, Azianura Hani Shaari
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341-361

Special Section

[EDITORIAL BOARD SPECIAL SECTION] Minority Sites and Situations: English Language Studies in an Age of Evolving Intelligences
Editor-in- Chief
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Kaherak-herak na Orag: Gender, Violence, and Cultural Translation in a Bikol Romeo & Juliet
Maria Lorena Martinez Santos, Gene Segarra Navera
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362-374
“No longer languished in the periphery of existence:” Female bodies, computational-sentiment analysis, and Malay folktales
Wan Nur Madiha Ramlan, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Nurul Izzati Hassan
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375-395
Religiously Deviant or a Cult? A Corpus-based Collocational Analysis of the Representation of GISBH in Malaysian English and Malay News Reports
Christina Sook Beng Ong, Hajar Abdul Rahim
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396-415
Changing Covenants: Sociolinguistic Mobilities and the Transgenerational Discursivities of the Convent in the Malaysian Cultural Imaginary
Shanthini Pillai, Angeline Wong Wei Wei, Joanna Tan Tjin Ai
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416-429
Conceptual Metaphors of Time in Malaysian English Textbooks: A Comparative Cognitive Linguistic Study
Hicham Lahlou, Kumaran Rajandran
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430-445
Authorial Voices and Minority Realities: South Indian Muslim Women's Narratives
Ayshath Shamah Rahmath, Raihanah M.M.
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446-460
Attitudinal Stance and Code-Switching as Persuasive Tools in Malaysian Digital Activism: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Mobilisation Discourse
Habibah Ismail, Nurshafawati Ahmad Sani
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461-484
Framing the Marginalised: An Analysis of Themes in History and Sociology Book Reviews
Leng Hong Ang, Mengyu He
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485-500
Untranslatable Flavours: Examining the Loss of Culinary and Cultural Nuance in Chinese-to-English Dish Name Translation
Lay Shi Ng, Ruey Shing Soo, Chun Keat Yeap
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501-514
Unspoken Thresholds: Exploring Spatiality and Invasion in Zoya Pirzad's Things We Left Unsaid and Vanessa Chan’s The Storm We Made
Jeslyn Sharnita Amarasekera, Marziyeh Farivar
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515-528
Translating Emotion Words in a Japanese Healing Fiction – Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Normalis Amzah, Azalia Zaharuddin, Roswati Abdul Rashid
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529-548