Foreigner and foreign in English-language newspapers in Malaysia: A framesemantic approach

This paper explores the usage of two morphologically related words, foreign and foreigner, in two major daily English-language newspapers circulated widely in Malaysia. On the basis of 285 tokens, the study shows a striking tendency indicating that they do not share exactly the same semantic content...

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Main Authors: Toshiko Yamaguchi (Author), Huixin Yeo (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM, 2015.
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