Covid to Beat: Creative Intermingling of Translingualism in Comic If Malaysia was Anime: Covidball Z

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3L-Language Linguistics Literature-The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI:10.17576/3l-2023-2901-02

Wirda Syaheera Mohd Sulaiman, S. Chew

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Abstract

Malaysia, home to a multiracial community consisting of Malay, Chinese, Indian and others, typically practise two or more languages as Malay language is the official national language and English is the second language. The use of translanguaging amongst Malaysians is regular in spoken as well as written discourse. This particular research examined the use of translanguaging in written discourse, specifically in a comic book by Malaysian cartoonist Ernest Ng titled If Malaysia was Anime: Covidball Z. This comic book addresses real Malaysian scenarios such as the recent Covid-19 pandemic and political scenes with an adoption of Malaysian style of spoken discourse in written form. This research aims to explore the use of translanguaging in the mentioned comic book and explore Malaysians' views of the use of translanguaging in this comic book through interviews. To determine the use of translanguaging in the comic book, this study adopted Jakobson's (1987) six language functions as the theoretical framework. The findings of this study revealed that out of the six language functions stated by Jakobson, five were found in the comic book excluding the phatic function. Most interviewees were also found to have positive perceptions towards the use of translanguaging in comic books as it could display Malaysians' unique plurilingual communication skills. © 2023 Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. All rights reserved.

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如果马来西亚是动漫:Covid - ball Z

马来西亚是一个由马来人、华人、印度人和其他民族组成的多种族社区，通常使用两种或两种以上的语言，因为马来语是官方语言，英语是第二语言。马来西亚人在口头和书面话语中经常使用翻译语言。这项特别的研究考察了在书面话语中使用跨语言的情况，特别是在马来西亚漫画家Ernest Ng的漫画书《如果马来西亚是动漫:covid - ball z》中。这本漫画书讲述了马来西亚的真实场景，如最近的Covid-19大流行和政治场景，并采用了马来西亚风格的书面口头话语。本研究旨在探讨上述漫画书中译语的使用，并通过访谈探讨马来西亚人对该漫画书中译语使用的看法。为了确定漫画书中译语的使用，本研究采用Jakobson(1987)的六种语言功能作为理论框架。研究结果表明，在雅各布森所说的六种语言功能中，除了语言功能外，漫画书中有五种语言功能。大多数受访者对漫画书中使用跨语言也有积极的看法，因为它可以展示马来西亚人独特的多语言沟通技巧。©2023马来西亚Penerbit大学。版权所有。

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3L-Language Linguistics Literature-The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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1.60

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28.60%

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审稿时长

25 weeks

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