Vol 32, No 1 (2026)

March 2026

Table of Contents

Articles

War and Conflicting Voices: Attitudinal Analysis of Chinese and British News Reports on the Israel-Gaza War
Wang Yitong, Hanaa Samaha
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1-20
Making Disclosure Credible: An Intertextual Analysis of Argentine and Malaysian Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Reports
Kumaran Rajandran
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21-34
Interpreters’ Subjectivity in Diplomatic Interpreting: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of China’s 14th NPC Press Conference
Jinming Ju, Leelany Ayob
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35-49
Politeness Strategies of Anglo Expatriates in Indonesia: A Sociopragmatic Analysis of Directive Speech Acts
Ade Mulyanah, Ekaning Krisnawati, Lina Meilinawati Rahayu, Herry Yogaswara
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50-69
Journeys of Change: Merantau and Diffusionism in Khatijah Sidek’s Memoirs of Khatijah Sidek:Puteri Kesateria Bangsa (2001)
Rabiatul Adawiyah Yusoff, Raihanah M. M., Shamsul A. B.
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70-84
A Contrastive Study on Conceptual Metaphor “WOMEN ARE SUPERNATURAL FORCES” in 20th-Century Vietnamese and American Literature: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach
Pham Thuy Giang, Nguyen Thi Thuy Chung
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85-108
Non-Self and Mindfulness in Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Buddhist Prose: An Ecocritical and Yin–Yang Perspective
Hoang Thị Thuy Duong
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109-125
Language, Space, and Cultural Identity in the Bilingual Landscape of Amman
Ghazi K. Al-Naimat, Yassir Y. Al Suod
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126-142
Thanatopolitics and the Constant Smallness of Being: Necropower and Bare Life in Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin
Sanniya Batool
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143-156
Bare Life in the Digital Age: Homo Sacer, Necropolitics, and Algorithmic Control in the Selected Contemporary Fiction
Ali Khoshnood, Sajjad Gheytasi, Abbas Sohrabzadeh
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157-171
Assessing Legal Translations Generated by GPT-4 Turbo Using MQM: A Comparative Study
Lama Abdullah Aldosari, Nasrin Altuwairesh
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172-186
ChatGPT as a Tool in Developing Research and Language Skills in a Research Methodology Course
Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, Jamaluddin Aziz
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187-200
Evaluative Meaning and Persuasion in Shaanxi Tourism Website Discourse: An Appraisal-Based Analysis
Shi Weiping, Ng Lay Shi, Azianura Hani Shaari
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201-217
An Exploration of the Informal Waste Scavenger’s Case as Reflected in Mirdula Koshy’s Bicycle Dreaming
Shatha M. Abuelhommus, Husam A. Abu hajar, Abdalhadi Nimer Abdalqader Abu Jweid, Abdelsalam A. Hammash, Abdel Rahman M. Altakhaineh
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218-231
Mimicry, Resistance, and the Desire for Assimilation in Unmarriageable: Reclaiming Identity through Writing Back to the Empire
Huma Ahmed, Rasib Mahmood, Akhtar Habib Shah
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232-245
From Fat Shaming to Body Positivity: Resilience and Identity Transformation in R. Chaitanya’s The Cursed Curves
Pavithra R A, Ananthan B
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246-259
Non-normative Sexuality And Genders Confronted: A Study of Translators-In-Training’s Intercultural Competence through English-Thai Translation of LGBTQ+ Texts
Narongdej Phanthaphoommee, Gritiya Rattanakantadilok
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260-277
Reading Between the Lines: Exploring Narrative Identity through Genre-based Sentiment Analysis of a Corpus of Student-Teachers’ Narratives
Teh David Tchaikovsky Boon Ern
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278-294
TED Talks as a Pedagogical Bridge: Exploring Strategies for Reducing Speaking Anxiety in Iranian and Indian Contexts
Fatemeh Akbarian Chaleshtari, Ahmad R. Lotfi, Fatemeh Karimi
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295-313
Group Communication in Work-related Instant Messaging (IM): Request Strategies Among Adult Malay Speakers of English
Petani Mohd Noor, Kesumawati Abu Bakar, Normalis Amzah, Marlyna Maros
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314-332
Towards a Tribal Literary Criticism in India: Engaging Northeast Tribal Voices in English Literature
M. Maisuangdibou, Abilash Chandran R.
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333-348
The Intersection of Postcolonial Ecofeminism and Gendered Trauma in J.M. Coetzee’s in the Heart of the Country
Lan Zhang, Amalia Qistina Castaneda Abduliah, Mok Soon Sim
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349-360