Malaysia belongs to the Malays': A critical discourse analysis of netizens’ comments on Zainal Kling’s opening speech at the Malay Dignity Congress (2019)

Mohamad Jamil, Siti Nurnadilla (2020) Malaysia belongs to the Malays': A critical discourse analysis of netizens’ comments on Zainal Kling’s opening speech at the Malay Dignity Congress (2019). In: International Conference on Language and Literature 2020 (ICLL 2020), 15th-17th January 2020, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Online news pages have provided a communicative space where citizens can, in principle, exercise power, creating and sustaining an identity as participating members in political processes (Dahlgren, 2009). While this holds democratic potential, it also provides venues for racial hatred provocation. Using ‘Facepager 4.0’, a tool for gathering social media platforms data developed by Jünger and Keyling (2019), this paper focuses on netizen’s responses on Free Malaysia Today news site to Professor Emeritus Dr Zainal Kling’s opening speech at the Malay Dignity Congress on 6 October 2019. In his speech, he claimed that Malaysia is for Malays and reminded other communities of the social contract they have with Malays. The in-depth representational analysis via the discourse-historical approach’s (DHA, see Wodak and Reisigl, 2016) nomination and predication strategies explores the discursive dynamics of Malaysian online “patriotism” and its interface with incitement to racial hatred as a reaction to the speech. This paper reveals that this, further dichotomized the Us and Them groups, imagined homogenous communities inside/outside imagined well-protected territories through the discursive construction of such in-groups and out-groups.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Slide Presentation)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Malay, Malaysia, discourse analysis, Zainal Kling, speech, Malay Dignity Congress (2019)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of English Language & Literature
Depositing User:	Dr Siti Nurnadilla Mohamad Jamil
Date Deposited:	24 Dec 2020 11:14
Last Modified:	24 Dec 2020 11:14
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/85673

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