Vol 31, No 4 (2025)

December 2025

Table of Contents

Articles

Speaking Like a Man: Linguistic Convergence of Female Dota 2 Gamers
Noor Farah Adeebah Abdul Rahman, P Sharimila Bai Pandurenga Rao
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1-22
Psycholinguistic Functions in War Poetry: A Comparative Study of the Battles of Uhud and Maldon
Nurul Iman Mohamad Anuar Kamal, Suziana Mat Saad
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23-38
Mnemonic Intersections: Renegotiating Turkey’s Contested Past through Familial Memory in Fethiye Çetin’s My Grandmother
Atchaya Devi M, Meera B
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39-52
Environmental Preservation in D. Zawawi Imron’s Poetry: Critical Discourse Analysis through Madurese Sufi Perspectives
Ismatul Izzah, Darni Darni, Mintowati Mintowati, Setya Yuwana, Anas Ahmadi
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53-68
Four Travelogues on the Politics of River: Water Conflict, Climate Change, and Ecocide
Kanseng Shyam, Prof. Mridul Bordoloi, Basil N Darlong Diengdoh
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69-82
Care and Vulnerability in Liminal Spaces: A Study of The Blind Matriarch
Pragya Dev, Binod Mishra
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83-94
Exploring Karachi’s Landscapes of Memory and Urban Ecology through Saeed’s The Year of Sound and Heat (2022)
Hajra Umer, Maria Farooq Maan
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95-109
In The Shadows of Piety: Women and Religious Authority through Nawal El Saadawi’s ‘The Fall Of the Imam’ and Tehmina Durrani’s ‘Blasphemy’
Mehak Fayaz Khan, Rafraf Shakil Ansari
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110-123
Everyday Resistance in the Yin Space-Tracing Queer Heterotopias in Body2Body: A Malaysian Queer Anthology (2009)
Jin Beng Seach
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124-136
Revisiting Andalusian History: Sociocultural Influences on the (Re)translation of Early Arab Narratives
Yomna Aly, Riham Debian, Abeer M. Refky M. Seddeek
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137-153
A Chronotopic Analysis of Transgenerational Trauma in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography
Altaf Ahmad Khan, Anita Harris Satkunananthan
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154-168
Developing Genre and Pragmatic Competence Through Service-Learning: A Discourse-Based Study in a Vietnamese Transnational Hospitality ESP Programme
Nguyen Nhat Tuan, To Ngan Ha, Vu Thuy Duong, Vu Thi Huyen
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169-184
Mapping Malaysian Rainforest Landscape in Children’s Fantasy Novel: Hamra and the Jungle of Memories by Hanna Alkaf
Juan Yang, Nadiatul Shakinah Abdul Rahman
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185-199
Unlocking Tourism Potential: Enhancing English through an E-book in Thailand's Remote Areas
Narinthorn Sombatnan Behr, Nuntana Wongthai
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200-216
From Reading a Text to Becoming the Text: Towards Deeper Engagement in Philippine Literature through Reader Response–Subjective Interpretation in a Tertiary Context
Priscilla Gonzaga Sarabia-Cielo
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217-237
The Role of Chatbots, Google and Online Dictionaries in Meaning Comprehension and Retention
Anna Dziemianko
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238-258
Can ChatGPT Translate Like a Pro? A Pilot Benchmarking Study of English–Malay Translation Quality
Mohamed Zain Sulaiman, Intan Safinaz Zainudin, Haslina Haroon
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259-278
Best-Selling Youth Literature Titles: Cross-Cultural Translation from English to Thai Through Linguistic and Cognitive Perspectives
Panitnan Iemtom
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279-295
Interpreting Social Media Memes: Exploring Variations in Understanding Gen Z Slang Across Gen X, Gen Y and Gen Z
Marielle V Carganilla, Johnell Bringas Desalit, Chi Wei, Geraldine S. Wakat
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296-311
Cohesion Shifts and Strategies in Handling Elliptical Structures in English-Arabic Translation among Younger Scholars of Translation
Eassa Ali Mohammed Ali, Rafik Jamoussi, Aladdin Al Zahran
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312-329
Persuasion through Metadiscourse: Examining the Textual Metadiscourse Used in the Malaysian Universities’ Digital Promotional Materials
Nor Atifah Mohamad, Ameiruel Azwan Ab Aziz, Airil Haimi Mohd Adnan, Nazarul Azali Razali
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330-344
The Translator’s Voice and Visibility in Chinese Sci-tech Classics: A Case Study of the English Translation of Chajing
Dan Peng, Wan Rose Eliza Abdul Rahman
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345-361
A Comparative Literary Study of the Prosodic Systems of English and Arabic Poetry
Yasir M Elyasa
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362-374
Through the Looking Glass: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Social Integration and Growth in Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Chaitanya Sabhasundar, Martha Karunakar
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375-387
Magical Doors and Digital Gateways: Exploring Global Connectivity and Alienation in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West
Alshaymaa Mohamed M. Ahmed
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388-403
Metaphor Salience in Thai Higher Education: A Cognitive Linguistics Perspective
Passakorn Chatreepinyo, Nuntana Wongthai
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404-419
Multidimensional Perspectives on Language Vitality and Linguistic Landscapes in Indonesia
Nurenzia Yannuar, Yusnita Febrianti, Ika Nurhayani, Nazarudin Nazarudin, Yazid Basthomi
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420-448

Book Review

Book Review: The Asian family in literature and film: Changing perceptions in a New Age-East Asia, Volume 1 (eds. Bernard Wilson & Sharifah Aishah Osman), Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Siti Nuraishah Ahmad
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449-450