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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 226-231Publisher
CANADIAN CENTER SCIENCE & EDUCATION
DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v8n4p226
Keywords
apostasy; apostate; Facebook; Malaysia; Islam; speech acts
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- Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme [FRGS/1/2016/SSI03/UniSZA/02/5]
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This paper discusses the speech acts in Facebook Status Updates posted by an apostate of Islam. The Facebook Timeline was observed for a duration of two years (January 2015 to December 2016). More than 4000 postings were made in the data collection period. However, only 648 postings are related to apostasy. The data were classified according to the types of speech acts. Expressive speech act is the most frequent speech act (33%, n=215), followed by the directive (27%, n=177), assertive (22%, n=141), and commissive (18%, n=115), respectively. Based on the speech acts used, it is discernible that the apostate attempts to engage other Facebook users and persuade them into accepting her ideology while gaining their support. This paper is novel in the sense that it puts forth the social actions of an apostate which is very scarce in literature. It is also methodologically innovative as it uses social media postings as a tool to explore the apostate's social actions in an online space.
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