Research Thrusts

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    Language, Culture and Society
    (in and beyond the Malay World)

    Research clusters (thrusts) are inclusive, not exclusive (…. so is good research). On this page, you will find info regarding our publications, research projects, and relevant conferences.

    Publications / Outputs

    Despite the constraints inevitably faced during the Covid19 pandemic 2020-2022, notably the lockdown and the inability to travel for research purposes, a broad perspective of current and recent FASS research projects and publications demonstrates that this cluster is active and viable.

    Books

    Deterding, D., Gardiner, I. A., & Noorashid, N. (2022). The phonetics of Malay. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108942836

    Ho, H. M. Y., & Deterding, D. (Eds.). (2021). Engaging modern Brunei: Research on language, literature and culture. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2

    He, D. (2020). China English in world Englishes: Education and use in the professional world. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8187-8
    (Publisher’s Link   |   PDF Version)

    Articles and Book Chapters

    Asiyah Kumpoh. (2023). Can cultural homogenization be an open-ended process? Reconstructing the narratives of Brunei’s homogenization process. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 10(2), 75-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/1489

    Asiyah Kumpoh. (2022). "I want to go home, but I can’t leave": Narratives of the South Asian diaspora in Brunei during COVID-19. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 18(2), 37–69. https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.3 (PDF Link).

    Asiyah Kumpoh, & Hoon, C. Y. (2023). Brunei in historical context: Governance, geo-politics and socio-economic development. In A. Ananta, C. Y. Hoon, & M. Hamdan (Eds.), Stability, growth, and sustainability: Catalysts for socio-economic development in Brunei Darussalam (pp. 26-48). ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute and Universiti Brunei Darussalam.

    Baha, N., & Asiyah Kumpoh. (2023). Pengaruh faktor peribadi dan kontekstual terhadap amalan fesyen Muslimah berkerjaya di Brunei Darussalam. Journal of Islamic, Social, Economics and Development, 8(52), 104-116.

    He, D., & Li, D. (2023). Glocalizing ELT reform in China: A perspective from the use of English in the workplace. RELC Journal, 51(4), 149–165. (PDF Version)

    Ho, D. G. E., & Ho, H. M. Y. (2021). Ethnic identity and the Southeast Asian Chinese: Voices from Brunei. In C. Y. Hoon & Y. K. Chan (Eds.), Contesting Chineseness: Ethnicity, identity, and nation in China and Southeast Asia (pp. 149-166). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6096-9_8

    Ho, D. G. E., Munawwarah Sa’adi, He, D., & Hoon, C-Y. (2023). Silence over the wire: Student verbal participation and the virtual classroom in the digital era. Asia Pacific Education Review, 1–17. (PDF Version)

    Ho, H. M. Y. (2022). Beyond intractability: Muslim women negotiating identities in Brunei Darussalam. In F. Jussawalla & D. Omran (Eds.), Muslim women's writing from across South and Southeast Asia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003248064

    Ho, H. M. Y. (2021). Chinese Bruneian identity: Negotiating individual, familial and transnational selves in anglophone Bruneian literature. The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, 14(2), 1-34. DOI: 10.30395/WSR.202106_14(2).0001 (PDF Link)

    Ho, H. M. Y. (2022). Mental health challenges of migrant domestic workers in the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Brunei Darussalam. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 18(2), 99–125. https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.5 (PDF Link).

    Ho, H. M. Y. (2020). The violence of othering and (non-)indigenous revival: Aammton Alias’ The Last Bastion of Ingei: Imminent as postcolonial speculative fiction of Brunei Darussalam. Southeast Asian Review of English, 57(1), 55-79. https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol57no1.6 (PDF Link)

    Ho, H. M. Y. (2020). Unclean subject(s) of depression within the Singaporean state. In J. R. Velasco (Ed.), The faces of depression in literature (pp. 143-160). Peter Lang. (Link)

    Lewis, C., & Deterding, D. (2022). The pragmatics of other-initiated repair in ELF interactions among Southeast Asians. In I. Walkinshaw (Ed.), Pragmatics in English as a lingua franca (pp. 107–126). De Gruyter Mouton. DOI: 10.1515/9781501512520-006

    Li, D. C. S., & He, D. (2021). When does an unconventional form become an innovation? In A. Kirkpatrick (Ed.), Routledge handbook of world Englishes (pp. 624-640). Routledge. (PDF Version)

    McLellan, J. (2020). Brunei English. In K. Bolton, W. Botha, & A. Kirkpatrick (Eds.), The handbook of Asian Englishes (pp. 399-418). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118791882.ch17

    McLellan, J. (2023). Digital technologies, social media, global and local languages in Southeast Asia. Kemanusiaan, 30(1). http://web.usm.my/kajh/vol30_s1_2023.html

    McLellan, J. (2022). Malay and English language contact in social media texts in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia. Frontiers in Communication: Special issue on Englishes in a Globalized World: Exploring Contact Effects on Other Languages. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.810838/full

    Noor Azam Haji-Othman, & McLellan, J. (2020). Inside or outside the mainstream? An ethnolinguistic study of the status of minority indigenous groups in Negara Brunei Darussalam. In V. T. King & S. C. Druce (Eds.), Continuity and Change in Brunei Darussalam: A celebration and evaluation of the work of Professor Donald E. Brown. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.

    Noor Azam Haji-Othman & McLellan, J. (2022). Language, society and change: Shifting identities? In V. T. King & K. G. Ooi (Eds.), Routledge handbook of contemporary Brunei (pp. 233-247). Routledge.

    Noor Azam Haji-Othman, & McLellan, J. (2021). Researching Borneo language description, language maintenance and language shift. In V. T. King & J. Jammes (Eds.), Fieldwork and the self: Encounters, confessions and new trajectories in Southeast Asian research (pp.291-306). Springer.

    Noorashid, N., & McLellan, J. (2021). “I speak English, but I’m still a Malay”: Language attitudes and identity amongst bilingual Bruneians living in London. REFLections, 28(1), 121-143. https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/reflections/issue/view/16875

    Nur Raihan, M. (2021). The use of American and British lexis in Brunei English. J-Lalite: Journal of English Studies, 2(2), 73-85. (PDF Version).

    Rinni Haji Amran. (2020). 'The fundamental magic of flying': Changing perspectives in Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s North to the Orient and Virginia Woolf’s The Years and Between the Acts. In M. McCluskey & L. Seaber (Eds.), Aviation in the literature and culture of interwar Britain (pp. 201-224). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60555-1_10

    Salbrina, S., & Mabud, S. A. (2021). Malay, muslim and monarchy: An introduction to Brunei Darussalam and its national identity. In L. H. Phan, A. Kumpoh, K. Wood, R. Jawawi, & H. Said (Eds.), Globalization, education, and reform in Brunei Darussalam. Palgrave MacMillan.

    Salbrina, S., & Noor Hasharina, H. (2021). The Malays of Brunei: An investigation of their family language policies. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2021.1931245

    Salbrina, S., & Zayani, Z. A. (2021). Language and the Malay Muslim identity: An insight into Brunei. Thought Paper Series No. 6. Journal of Islamic Governance. islamicgovernance.org/tp6

    Salbrina, S., & Zayani, Z. A. (2021). Language and the Malay Muslim identity: The investigation continues. Thought Paper Series No. 7. Journal of Islamic Governance. islamicgovernance.org/tp7

    Siti Mazidah Mohamad. (2020). Creative Production of 'COVID-19 Social Distancing' Narratives on Social Media. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. Special Issue on The Geography of the Corona Virus. https://doi.org/10.1111/TESG.12430

    Yaqin, L., Badriyah Yussof, Norazmie Yusof, & Ifwah Fauzani Chuchu. (2023). Trend kajian Bahasa Melayu Brunei: Analisis bibliometrik. Pendeta 14(2), 185-200.

    Selected Student Research - PhD Theses

    Chorbwhan, Rungroj Musa. (2018). A comparison of receptive and productive English collocational knowledge of Thai learners of English as a Foreign Language with different first languages. PhD awarded November 2021.

    Muhammad Najib Noorashid. (2018). A study of attitudes towards the Malay language and its vitality in Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. PhD awarded November 2021.

    Hjh Nur’Aqilah Hj Abd. Aziz. (2019). Code switching in UBD students’ daily conversations through electronically mediated communication. PhD awarded March 2022.

    Pranika Lama. (2019). Language maintenance and ethnic identity of British Gurkha families in Brunei Darussalam. PhD awarded March 2022

    Salinayanti Salim. (2019). Media roles in Da’wah: Perceptions of Muslim converts in Sabah, Brunei and Sarawak. PhD awarded March 2022.

    Research Projects

    Proposed — “Borneo and Mindanao: A Comparative Study of Translanguaging Practices and Identity Projection, Negotiation And Concealment”. Due for submission to FASS Research Committee

    Conferences

    Linguistic Society of the Philippines International Conference, April 2023, MSU/IIT, Iligan, Mindanao: https://www.lsphil.net/post/call-for-abstracts-lspic2023

    Malaysia-Brunei Forum, December 2023, FASS, University of Malaya: https://fass.um.edu.my/events/malaysia-brunei-forum-2023-mbf-2023-nbsp

    AILA 2024 (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliqué), August 2024, Kula Lumpur (KLCC): https://aila2024.com/

    DRAL5 / ESEA22 (Doing Research in Applied Linguistics, English in South East Asia): King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Chonburi, Thailand: https://sola.pr.kmutt.ac.th/dral2024/

    Connections with the Globalization, Migration and Diaspora thrust:

    Migration Linguistics: