Composing Meanings Media Text and Language. 2006. Penerbit UKM: Bangi. ISBN 967-942-762-5 (paper back). 190 pp. RM20.00. Lee Swee Chin & Tan Kim Hua

Composing Meanings Media Text and Language. 2006. Penerbit UKM: Bangi. ISBN 967-942-762-5 (paper back). 190 pp. RM20.00. Lee Swee Chin & Tan Kim Hua

In general, theories, concepts, approaches and research methods from language and linguistics, discourse analysis and communication are primarily engaged together with those from anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, among others. This provides a broad multidisciplinary base for this book, which is important in an area which is increasingly multi-and interdisciplinary. The work is also richly situated in the particulars of multilingual or cultural and the rapidly changing language or communication contexts as in the case of Malaysia. All the chapters have significant local-global knowledge to contribute. This book is relevant to an understanding of media texts in this rich multilingual and cultural part of the world. In terms of the general and specifics, this book as a whole can be seen as an important and fresh contribution to the field of language and media text. This book also offers valuable and fresh perspectives in terms of findings in the field. Notable findings reported are not only situated in the rapidly changing communication and language contexts of Malaysia but may be generalisable across similar contexts. At the same time, the work provides significant insights into ways of doing research in media language and texts which will be relevant to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in the area of language and media communications.

LEE SWEE CHIN and TAN KIM HUA, both are lecturers at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

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Malaysia.

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