In the 1990s, much discourse both in and about global civil society was beset by a false opposition. On the one side was the utopia of cosmopolitan liberalism. On the other was the specter of reactionary nationalism or fundamentalism. And, of course, in a variety of settings, some national and some diasporically transnational, the value loading was reversed: fundamentalist or national utopia, t...

Although deixis has received increasingly academic attention in linguistic research, its use sermons, particularly the Islamic context, been largely underexplored. Therefore, this paper examined Friday sermons from perspective of pragmatics and discourse analysis. Drawing on Levinson’s Framework, it aimed at analyzing three main types (personal, temporal, spatial), focusing their forms, feature...

in diasporic literature the question of identity is tangled with the question of history. this study aims at discussing how yasmin crowther reviews the persian tradition in the saffron kitchen, her autobiographical novel which is mainly set-in early 60s, iran. the novel focuses on evoking and rewriting history by using different types of counter narratives that contrast with iranian hegemonic d...

Muslims around the globe are multicultural, from different age range, and multi socioeconomic backgrounds. This highlights importance of exploring lingua franca multilingual in communicating Islamic related genres multiple forms discourses. Currently, studies how Malaysian tertiary level students approach spoken written discourses, have been insufficiently limited. In relation to this, appropri...

<em>In the era before internet, memes could take form of posters containing messages, invitations, and even propaganda. Propagandists manipulated those discourses presented them at public events such as theatres festivals. It has evolved into computational propaganda using media popular in modern era. Muslims are effortless targets for offensive memes, which have been going on last decade...