The Discourse of Online Texts in Brunei: Extending Bruneian English

Wood, Alistair

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0853-5_12

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“…The finding for RQ1 is that over 90 per cent of the status updates fall into three of Bryant and Marmo's () relational maintenance categories: assurances, positivity, and openness. The main claim to originality and significance for the present study is the multilingual data, which reflects the multilingualism of Brunei society as a whole, a point also highlighted by Wood (). Many previous CMC studies, as lamented by Danet and Herring (: 5–6, 28) in a publication from the pre‐Facebook era, analysed monolingual, predominantly English data.…”

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“…To date there have been very few studies of Bruneian social media interaction specifically in the context of Facebook status updates, termed ‘wall events’ by Androutsopoulos (: 191). Nurdiyana's () study is the first; the chapter by Wood () offers an overview of research into language use across a variety of social media modalities.…”

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Gender and code choice in Bruneian Facebook status updates

Daud

McLellan

2016

World Englishes

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This study investigates language use by Bruneians on Facebook in terms of relational maintenance strategies, the correlations between gender and code choice, the use of emotive language and emoticons, and non‐standardised orthographic forms. A total of 240 Facebook status updates by undergraduates of Universiti Brunei Darussalam were examined. The results show that undergraduates use different categories of maintenance strategies in order to maintain relationships with other users through Facebook status updates, and that gender influences the existence and frequency of a number of linguistic variables in such updates. Women within the sample code‐switch more than men, whereas men use a single code more than women. Women use more emotive language and more emoticons on Facebook more than men do, whilst men use more non‐standardised orthographic forms than women. The implications of these results are discussed.

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confidence: 55%

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Gender and code choice in Bruneian Facebook status updates

Daud

McLellan

2016

World Englishes

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“…Among the most popular platforms are WhatsApp, Instagram and the Brunei Subreddit discussion forum. Wood (2016) highlights the importance of social media platforms for the development of Brunei English, owing to their popularity among younger bi-and multilingual Bruneians. This trend has become more pronounced since early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic first reached Brunei, necessitating lockdowns, restrictions on travel, and working and studying from home.…”

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Malay and English Language Contact in Social Media Texts in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia

McLellan

2022

Front. Commun.

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This paper focuses on aspects of language contact, specifically Malay and English in the domain of social media. Key components of the theoretical framework are world Englishes being by definition code-mixed varieties, and the complementary notions of nativization (of English) and englishization (of Malay, in this case). Texts examined and analyzed are from Whatsapp chats and groups, with the consent of all participants, and from public social media sites in the Malay world, mostly Negara Brunei Darussalam (henceforth Brunei) but also Malaysia. Brunei is known for having a very high percentage of social media use per head of population, with especially high levels of use of Instagram and Facebook, as well as discussion forums such as Reddit. In their social media interactions Bruneians and Malaysians have a range of language choices, from monolingual English to monolingual Malay, and varying degrees of code-mixing or translanguaging. Many Bruneians and Malaysians are multilingual, and thus may have more than two languages as resources to draw on. Analysis of threads of discussion forum postings on the same topic demonstrate the multilingual repertoire of participants, for whom any of the available language choices are unmarked. This is in part owing to the use of English as one medium of education alongside Malay: consistently in Brunei since 1985, inconsistently in Malaysia since 1963. The conclusion of the paper raises two questions: whether it is valid to posit the language of social media as a new variety comprising both local and global influences and inputs, and whether social media is a driver of change in varieties of English in Southeast Asia.

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“…In fact, code switching is a common choice for Bruneians in both written and spoken contexts (Deterding, 2009;McLellan & Noor Azam Haji-Othman, 2012). The ability to code switch between languages arises because interlocutors have high levels of language proficiency (Wood, 2016) as a result of the bilingual education, family background, and exposure to social media and entertainment which are mainly in English.…”

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‘Me inda nampak’ – Pronoun Use in Malay-English Codemixed Social Media Texts

Aziz

2020

Journ of Eng Stud

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This paper investigates the use of English the first-person singular object pronoun ‘me’ as a subject in conversation on WhatsApp and Telegram between university students in their twenties. It was found that the feature occurs more when interlocutors are code switching, especially in paired chats when ‘me’ often replaces the Malay pronoun aku or saya. This paper explores reasons for this, and how this feature has come to be used in synchronous electronically mediated conversations between young Bruneians. The findings show that using ‘me’ serves as a polite speech marker which is perceived as a softer expression than Malay aku in conversations, depending on the interlocutors.

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The Discourse of Online Texts in Brunei: Extending Bruneian English

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Gender and code choice in Bruneian Facebook status updates

Gender and code choice in Bruneian Facebook status updates

Malay and English Language Contact in Social Media Texts in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia

‘Me inda nampak’ – Pronoun Use in Malay-English Codemixed Social Media Texts

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