Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan - Tesis

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Exploring The Postmodern Multiple Subjectivity In Selected Works Of Malaysian Prose Fiction In English
(2023-02)
Yakin, Haryasindra Mohd.
The focus of this study is to examine the representation of the postmodern multiple subjectivity in the works of a few contemporary Malaysian writers. The concept of the postmodern multiple subjectivity comprises of two other concepts which are the concept of the double (Freud, 1919) and the concept of the protean self by Lifton (1993). The writers that comprise the corpus of this study include Karim Raslan, Dina Zaman, Tash Aw, Zen Cho, Sharmilla Ganesan and Angeline Woon to explore the dynamism of the postmodern self in responding to the challenges brought about by the social and cultural changes that have taken place due to globalisation, transnationalism and diaspora. This research also endeavours to study a group of vibrant and contemporary Malaysian writers whose mode of writing reflects a break away from the nationalistic fervour, local and communal sentiments shown by Malaysian writers in the years preceding the 21st century. These new writers approach issues of the self and identities in a much broader sense, mirroring a postmodern outlook in their works as a result of the influences of technological developments, sophisticated interconnectivity of communications and free movements of people across the globe.
A Corpus-Based Study Of Give, Take, And Make Light Verb Constructions In Mesolectal Malaysian English
(2023-03)
Christina Sook Beng, Ong
This study investigated the structural and aspectual functional patterns of light verb constructions (LVCs) in mesolectal Malaysian English and identified nativised LVCs. LVCs refer to combinations of a semantically “empty” or light verb with a deverbal noun. The three selected light verbs are give, take, and make. A standard or prototypical LVC is made up of a light verb and a deverbal noun preceded by the indefinite article as shown in this sentence, I’ll take a look at her feet myself. Studies examining the use of LVCs in postcolonial Englishes suggest emerging variants such as make good decision may not be idiomatic and may not be acceptable by native speakers. To facilitate this research, a 100-million words general corpus of mesolectal Malaysian English was created. This corpus is known as the Corpus of Malaysian English Forum (CMEF). It consists of threads from Lowyat.NET, a popular Internet forum in Malaysia, representing the mesolectal variety of Malaysian English which is commonly used and nationally intelligible. The British National Corpus (BNC) was used as the reference corpus. The structural analysis reveals that Malaysian English LVCs do not deviate much from the standard structure of LVCs except the overuse of zero-article LVCs.
"Holff's Philosophical Anarchism - An Analysis"
(1980-08)
Tan Kuan Aw
This thesis begins with an Introduction which briefly describes the two basic theses of Wolff's position. Firstly, Wolff argues that political authority cannot be justified on moral grounds because there lS an irresolvable conflict between political authority and autonomy - man's fundamental moral duty. Secondly, he argues that no political theory can succeed in resolving this problem and in particular classical / democratic theory has failed to do so. Hence Wolff concludes that political authority must be rejected and anarchism is the only conclusion left for a rational man.
English Error Analysis Of Written English Of Chinese Students In A Malaysian Secondary School : A Case Study
(1994-03)
Margery Lim Phek Chu
The objective s of this study were to identify the written errors produced by a group of Chinese learners of English as a second language, trace the sources of these errors and offer plausible explanantions for their occurrence.
Optimization Of Optical And Radar Satellite Data In Google Earth Engine For Monitoring Oil Palm Changes In Tropical River Basins
(2023-09)
Zeng, Ju
Accurate mapping of oil palm plantations is crucial for planning agricultural best management practices. Google Earth Engine (GEE), a cloud-based computing platform, allowing users to process multi-source satellite images more quickly and effectively. In fact, it is difficult to distinguish oil palm from other crops using only optical satellites due to the issue of cloud cover in tropical regions. Unfortunately, there is only little scientific understanding about how various satellite images within GEE can be helpful for mapping oil palm plantations. Hence, this study aims to determine the optimal combination of open-source optical and radar satellite data for mapping oil palm plantations in tropical river basins using the Muda River Basin (MRB) and the Johor River Basin (JRB) as test sites. First, the two machine learning classifiers available in GEE, random forest (RF) and support vector machine (SVM), were compared to identify which is the most effective classifier for mapping oil palm plantations. Then, eight different data combinations have been constructed from the satellite images and indices such as C-band Sentinel-1, L-band PALSAR2, Landsat8, Sentinel-2, topographic, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), etc. Lastly, the optimal data combination was employed to project future oil palm distribution using the CA-Markov approach. The findings demonstrate that RF outperformed SVM in mapping oil palm plantations in both river basins.

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