The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus

Numeral classifiers are primarily used to provide semantic information about the physical and functional properties of objects, the cognitive categories of objects in a particular culture, and the perceptions of the speakers within a particular speech community towards the objects. Numeral classifi...

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Main Authors:	Khazriyati Salehuddin, Heather Winskel, Marlyna Maros
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2011
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1005/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1005/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1005/1/137-153.pdf

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spelling	ukm-10052016-12-14T06:28:33Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1005/ The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus Khazriyati Salehuddin, Heather Winskel, Marlyna Maros, Numeral classifiers are primarily used to provide semantic information about the physical and functional properties of objects, the cognitive categories of objects in a particular culture, and the perceptions of the speakers within a particular speech community towards the objects. Numeral classifiers of Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese and Thai have been found to perform pragmatic functions as well. To identify if Malay does use numeral classifiers to perform a number of pragmatic functions, we analysed a 73,000- word modern Malay corpus targeted at both adult and young audience. Results indicate that in the modern Malay corpus, the Malay numeral classifiers perform several pragmatic functions in various contexts: they function as anaphoric and cataphoric references, as indicators of definiteness and indefiniteness, and as foregrounding mechanisms in modern Malay discourse. Using twelve instances of numeral classifier usage and omission in the modern Malay corpus, this study proposes that the absence of numeral classifiers in texts is not likely to be due to language users’ ignorance of the need to use a numeral classifier or of the correct form of numeral classifiers. On the contrary, the absence of numeral classifiers in the corpus exhibits the Malay language users’knowledge of the pragmatic functions of Malay numeral classifiers. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2011-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1005/1/137-153.pdf Khazriyati Salehuddin, and Heather Winskel, and Marlyna Maros, (2011) The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 11 (2). pp. 137-153. ISSN 1675-8021 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/Gema/gemahome.html
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description	Numeral classifiers are primarily used to provide semantic information about the physical and functional properties of objects, the cognitive categories of objects in a particular culture, and the perceptions of the speakers within a particular speech community towards the objects. Numeral classifiers of Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese and Thai have been found to perform pragmatic functions as well. To identify if Malay does use numeral classifiers to perform a number of pragmatic functions, we analysed a 73,000- word modern Malay corpus targeted at both adult and young audience. Results indicate that in the modern Malay corpus, the Malay numeral classifiers perform several pragmatic functions in various contexts: they function as anaphoric and cataphoric references, as indicators of definiteness and indefiniteness, and as foregrounding mechanisms in modern Malay discourse. Using twelve instances of numeral classifier usage and omission in the modern Malay corpus, this study proposes that the absence of numeral classifiers in texts is not likely to be due to language users’ ignorance of the need to use a numeral classifier or of the correct form of numeral classifiers. On the contrary, the absence of numeral classifiers in the corpus exhibits the Malay language users’knowledge of the pragmatic functions of Malay numeral classifiers.
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author	Khazriyati Salehuddin, Heather Winskel, Marlyna Maros,
spellingShingle	Khazriyati Salehuddin, Heather Winskel, Marlyna Maros, The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus
author_facet	Khazriyati Salehuddin, Heather Winskel, Marlyna Maros,
author_sort	Khazriyati Salehuddin,
title	The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus
title_short	The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus
title_full	The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus
title_fullStr	The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus
title_full_unstemmed	The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus
title_sort	pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern malay written corpus
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2011
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1005/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1005/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1005/1/137-153.pdf
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The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus

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