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A study of Chinese loanwords (from South Fujian dialects) in the Malay and Indonesian languages [PDF]
I was in South Fujian (Hokkian) to conduct preliminary research on South Fujian dialect loanwords in Malay and Indonesian languages in April and May 1985. I have additionally consulted eight Malay-Indo nesian dictionaries (Poerwadarminta 1976; Zain 1960; Arifin 1951; Harahap 1951; Chaer 1976; Iskandar 1970; Yang Kui Yee and Chan Meow Wah 1984 ...
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The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
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Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation
ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
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Family dynamics and death row: A dual‐theory approach
ABSTRACT Objective This study investigates how the incarceration and death sentence of a loved one impact family dynamics in Malaysia, drawing on restorative justice and family systems theories. Background Despite the global movement toward abolishing the death penalty, Malaysia continues to impose discretionary death sentences for crimes such as ...
Reyhaneh Bagheri
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ABSTRACT While REDD+ prioritizes carbon sequestration, its narrow focus often overlooks forest‐health linkages critical to community well‐being. This paper examines the holistic model of Health in Harmony (HIH) and Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), which integrates forest conservation with healthcare through radical listening—a decolonial community engagement
Angie Hsu +3 more
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More‐Than‐Debt: Affective Topologies of Buy‐Now‐Pay‐Later (BNPL) Platforms in Singapore
Short Abstract Buy‐now‐pay‐later (BNPL) platforms reconfigure indebtedness by operating as topological‐affective infrastructures that simultaneously modulate spatial relations and felt intensities. Drawing on diaries and interviews with BNPL users in Singapore, this paper reveals how platform mechanisms generate recursive movements across four ...
Gordon Kuo Siong Tan
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Malay and Javanese loanwords in Malagasy, Tagalog and Siraya (Formosa)
L'histoire culturelle et politique de l'Asie du sud-est montre l'importance des groupes ethniques Malais et Javanais. Cette situation est refletee par les emprunts linguistiques dans les langues indonesiennes, malaisiennes et dans quelques langues de la Philippine. En examinant les emprunts dans des langues tels le tagalog et le malgache, l'A.
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Feral Territories: The Suburbanization of Nature in Eastern Bangkok
ABSTRACT Between the 1960s and 1980s, American and international financial and technical assistance spurred men with means to bring together concrete, asphalt, timber, and steel to construct unplanned, poorly serviced (because they were unplanned), and expensive subdivisions at the outskirts of what was then central Bangkok.
Samson Lim
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ARABIC LOANWORD IN HAUSA AND MALAY LANGUAGE: A DESCRIPTIVE-ANALYTICAL STUDY
This descriptive-analytical study examines the systematic integration of Arabic loanwords into Hausa and Malay languages, focusing on phonological, morphological, and semantic adaptation mechanisms and their cultural implications. The research addresses a significant gap in comparative linguistics by analyzing two typologically distinct languages that ...
Abdallah Saleh Abdallah +4 more
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ABSTRACT Paludomidae is a diverse family of limnic gastropods in the Cerithioidea, with a distribution range including most of tropical sub‐Saharan Africa, the Nile Valley, Madagascar, the Seychelles, as well as South and Southeast Asia. Its systematics and taxonomy are currently in a state of confusion, with Thailand being inhabited by probably two ...
Matthias Glaubrecht +6 more
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