This edited volume conducts linguistic and literary analyses of the discourse involving race, religion and royalty (3R) in Malaysia. Grounded in Discourse Studies, it reveals the language features and strategies that articulate the vitality of 3R in historical and contemporary texts in English and Malay. The chapters employ language-based approaches to generate empirical explanations on 3R in multiple contexts. This volume is of interest to scholars, advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in Language, Linguistics and Literature to understand the discursive contours of race, religion and royalty in Asia.
1 Introduction (Kumaran Rajandran & Siti Nurnadilla Mohamad Jamil).- 2
Race, Religion and Royalty (3R): Permanent Features of Malaysian Society
(James Chin).- 3 Race, Religion and Royalty in COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Telegram
Posts (Mohd Nazriq Noor Ahmad, Noor Aqsa Nabila Mat Isa & Sheena Kaur).- 4
Racial and Religious Threatoric in TikTok during the 15th General Elections
(Siti Nurnadilla Mohamad Jamil).- 5 Theosemiotics and the Discourse of the
Malaysian Islamic Party (Kumaran Rajandran).- 6 French Missionaries, Malay
Rulers, and the Pioneer Moments of Interfaith Dialogues in Nineteenth-century
Malaya (Shanthini Pillai).- 7 The Crackhouse Comedy Club Incident: Unearthing
Group Affiliations on Interactional Orderliness and Disorderliness (David
Yoong).- 8 Positioning Race and Religion in Sabah: Insights from Scholarly
Discourse (Daron Benjamin Loo).- 9 Unveiling Sarawakians Perspectives on
Race, Religion and Royalty: A Thematic-Ideological Discourse Analysis (Collin
Jerome).- 10 Rulers Titles and Salutations: A Critical Discourse Analysis of
State Assembly Opening Speeches (Farrah Diebaa Rashid Ali).- 11 Dehijabbing
and Identity Reconstruction: Self and Other among Malay Muslim Women (Natrah
Noor & Kesumawati Abu Bakar).
Kumaran Rajandran is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research involves the multimodal study of various discourses in English, Malay and Spanish, exploring the articulation of identity and ideology in contemporary societies.
Siti Nurnadilla Mohamad Jamil is an Assistant Professor at AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia. Her research centres on how language constructs and deconstructs narratives of race, racism, marginalisation, and hate speech.
