Treating and healing Malaysia: a critical analysis of Najib Razak’s metaphors

• Main Author: Rashid Ali, Farrah Diebaa
• Format: Proceeding Paper
• Language: English; English
• Published: Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics (GLOCAL) 2023
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); JA Political science (General); JF Political institutions (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/111515/1/111515_Treating%20and%20healing%20Malaysia.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/111515/2/111515_Treating%20and%20healing%20Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/111515/; https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/cala2022-proceedings/cala22Farrah-Diebaa/
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

This paper discusses the vocational roles constructed by Najib Razak, the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia for himself, the government, and the relational identities for the people and others in nine Supply Bills read by him (2010 – 2018). This study was modelled upon Charteris-Black’s Critical Meta...