Code-Switching and Code-Mixing in the Practice of Judgement Writing in Malaysia

Zolkapli, Rasyiqah Batrisya Md; Mohamad, Hairul Azhar; Mohaini, Muhammad Luthfi; Wahab, Nadiah Hanim Abdul; Nath, Pavithran Ravinthra

doi:10.47836/pjssh.30.3.23

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“…Chi-square test of independence was used as the statistical test to examine the differences in the use of ILMC move structures and its subcategories by the WESL and WESL groups. The analysis was based on the same content analysis with the same qualitative software and statistical tests applied by Zolkapli et al (2022) in their quantification of qualitative elements by codifying and identifying linguistic constituents at various levels of textual, sentential, and lexical compositions to generate legal text's frequencies of use of specific linguistic items.…”

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Analytical Appeals of Move Structures in Systematically Organising and Communicating Research Ideas

Azhar Mohamad,

Abdul Wahab,

Ravinthra Nath

et al. 2023

IJAREMS

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This study sought to examine the use of a specific type of rhetorical move structure known as the ILMC (Introduction -Literature -Method -Conclusion) organisational model in writing academic research abstract compositions (RACs). A linear structure of writing development commonly associated with native English writers would aid in creating the logical appeal of the academic research composition. This was substantiated by the theoretical concept of Aristotelian Rhetoric to underscore the significance of rhetorical appeal in the form of logos or logical domain shown by the academic research writers. The research design was content analysis in which 480 RACs were employed based on the criterion method of sampling from eighty-eight indexed journals both from Malaysia and International research open-access journal repositories. A qualitative software of NVivo12 was used by the present researcher in manually analysing the employment of the ILMC move structures and its sub-types. The major findings revealed that writers of English as a second language (WESL) from Malaysia employed the sequential form of ILMC move structure, being the standard characteristic of the Anglo-European style of straightforward writing development in expanding the main points of a topic under examination. However, they had difficulties in ascertaining that all parts of the ILMC move structure were retained as they showed more missing moves dedicated to Literature and Methodology sections than the English writers from the UK, US, and Australia utilised these moves for the same sections. It was concluded that Malaysian ESL writers showed the importance of showing the standard linear writing structure commonly used by

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Analytical Appeals of Move Structures in Systematically Organising and Communicating Research Ideas

Azhar Mohamad,

Abdul Wahab,

Ravinthra Nath

et al. 2023

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“…So far, some relevant studies have been conducted by scholars such as Fanani & Ma'u (2018); Zolkapli, Mohamad, Mohaini, Wahab, & Nath (2022); Nahak & Bram (2022);and Pratama (2022). Fanani et al (2018) described the types and factors of codeswitching and code-mixing in English learning.…”

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“…Meanwhile, the current research not only focuses on code mixing but also the context. Zolkapli et al (2022) explored codeswitching and code-mixing in writing the grounds of judgment in the Malaysian Judicial System. The result showed that the use of congruent lexicalization of code-mixing is driven by the absence of specific legal terms in the national language, the need for registrar competence among the writers, and the functions of the legal terms to serve the pragmatic contexts of the text.…”

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Code Mixing as an Anti-Political Indiscretion Among Farm Laborers at Ajung, Kalisat, Jember

Yudistira,

Muta'allim

2023

LiNGUA J.

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One’s identity affects language production in the simplest form of communicational acts. The language serves dual purposes, conveying messages or as a vessel containing information about the speaker's socio-cultural identity. This research employed code-mixing acts constantly applied by farm laborers in their communication with land owners as the primary data to discover how the language codes were picked and arranged in excellent syntactical order to reflect meanings and metafunctions. The result of this research learned sensitive information on how politics allowed subjects equipped with the power to legitimate domination over the society and how the unbalanced rights and obligations were purposively maintained to suppress the farmers and their laborers to remain subordinated and weak subjects who lack resources.

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“…It is demonstrated through various rhetorical tools of linguistic resources by academic writers such as emotive adjectives, impactful choice of words, indirectness in the passive voice, narrative forms of transitional markers and many more. According to Zolkapli et al (2022), despite being a very objective type of text, various linguistic constituents in the academic legal texts with strong legal connotations were used based on the original language of legal discourse to ensure the original meanings of the words could be retained, apart from being persuasive to the larger context of non-legal audience. The purpose of having an embedded strong language and lexicalisation style is to produce the persuasive effect of the legal texts to appeal to the larger legal as well as non-legal audience, locally and internationally.…”

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Emotive Discursivity of Move Structures in the Organisational Rhetoric of Composing Academic Research Abstracts (ARAs)

Mohamad¹,

Mohaini²,

Zolkapli³

et al. 2023

IJARBSS

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This paper sought to explore the Aristotelian appeal of emotions (Pathos) based on the writers' emotive discursivity of writing through their rhetorical use of move structures in organising the content of their research abstract. It is referred to as the TPS move structure which represents the Territory (T), Problem (P), and Solution (S) moves. A total of 480 academic research abstracts (ARAs) of indexed journals from the outer circle of Malaysian Non-native English writers (MNNEWs) and the inner circle of Native English writers (MNNEWs). An NVivo12 software application was used in this study to analyse the frequency of the writers' different types of TPS move structures. It was found that both groups would prefer the non-linear TPS type (non-TPS) of move structures by organising their research ideas through PTS or TPTS structures. These non-TPS structures were discursive, non-linear, and repetitive which reflect the oriental way of writing in trying to appeal to the readers' emotional minds. Despite all writers' less usage of TPS structure in showing their linearity and directness, further analysis showed the Malaysian English writers would be more linear and direct than the native English writers. In doing so, Malaysian English writers would be more likely to omit the move related to the problem statement, demonstrating their less emphasis on the research gap. Further research could be conducted to explore the reasons for the writers' lack of Anglo-European direct writing style in academic research abstracts.

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Code-Switching and Code-Mixing in the Practice of Judgement Writing in Malaysia

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Analytical Appeals of Move Structures in Systematically Organising and Communicating Research Ideas

Analytical Appeals of Move Structures in Systematically Organising and Communicating Research Ideas

Code Mixing as an Anti-Political Indiscretion Among Farm Laborers at Ajung, Kalisat, Jember

Emotive Discursivity of Move Structures in the Organisational Rhetoric of Composing Academic Research Abstracts (ARAs)

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