Engaging Modern Brunei: Research on language, literature, and culture

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Abstract

1 An overview of the language, literature and culture of Brunei Darussalam -- Section I Language -- 2 An overview of the language, literature and culture of Brunei Darussalam -- 3 An overview of the language, literature and culture of Brunei Darussalam -- 4 A comparison of Malay and English texts in the Royal Brunei Muhibah magazine -- 5 On-line communication by the Brunei government in Malay and English -- 6Chinese dialects in Brunei: Shift, maintenance or loss? 6 Chinese dialects in Brunei: Shift, maintenance or loss? -- Section II Literature -- 7 Urih Pesisir: A reflection of the political history of the Sultanate of Brunei in the 19th century -- 8 Re-thinking lost subjects: Arrested intercultural identity in Muslim Burmat's Permainan Laut -- 9 Examining the imagined environments in contemporary Bruneian fiction: Developing Southeast Asian ecocriticism -- 10 Negotiating identity in Anglophone literature in Brunei -- 11 A case study of key processes experienced in an English 'A' Level literature classroom -- Section III Culture -- 12 Defining Bruneian cultural identity through contemporary artistic practice -- 13 A cultural enterprise: A study of modern Bruneian films -- 14 Deconstructing symbolism in Brunei Malay wedding customs -- 15 Local social media responses to Sharia Law in Brunei -- 16 Revisiting dominant cultural knowledge through the prism of Islam: How young Malays Islamize culture in Brunei.