Rasuah dalam karya sastera Melayu klasik: Satu analisis semantik kognitif
Syed Hussein Alatas has given seven typologies of corruption namely, nepotism, investive, defensive, transactive, autogenic, blackmail and supportive. The typologies listed are based on personal observation. This article attempts to formalize these corruption typologies using a cognitive semantic...
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Journal of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2008
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1562/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1562/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1562/1/shima.pdf |
| Summary: | Syed Hussein Alatas has given seven typologies of corruption namely, nepotism, investive,
defensive, transactive, autogenic, blackmail and supportive. The typologies listed are based
on personal observation. This article attempts to formalize these corruption typologies
using a cognitive semantics approach. Based on the classical literary works such as Sejarah
Melayu, Hikayat Hang Tuah, Hikayat Terung Pipit and Hikayat Raja Pasai, the concept of
corruption will be explicated. The meaning extension of corruption in Malay can be divided
into core meaning, peripheral meaning and sub-peripheral meaning. Cognitive mechanisms,
especially the conceptual metaphor such as container schema, force schema, link schema,
and hierarchical schema are utilized in explaining the corruption typologies in depth.
Subsequently, this article attempts to relate the phenomena of corruption with
contemporary Malay mind. The perception of ‘membalas budi’ (to pay back in return) has
made the concept of corruption ambiguous, in fact ‘halal’ (permissible) in the eyes of the
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