Conceptualizing Money Laundering in the 1MDB Scandal: An Analysis of Metaphors in The Sarawak Report
Asia in Transition, ISSN: 2364-8260, Vol: 18, Page: 251-268
2023
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Book Chapter Description
The 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal is one of the most complex and widely reported scandals in the world as it involves a complicated web of financial transactions, business deals and other forms of transactions. The complexities of this scandal were first exposed by an online news portal called The Sarawak Report. Metaphors were extensively used by the primary writer, Clair Rewcastle Brown, to describe the scandal, which helps readers comprehend the magnitude of the scandal. The data used in this chapter come from 1MDB-related articles in The Sarawak Report blog. Critical metaphor analysis is used to identify, interpret, and explain the primary orientation of the conceptual metaphors found in the blog posts. This approach unpacks the metaphors used in context and reveals underlying meanings and motivations of surface level metaphors, helping readers to make connections between the subject matter and the concepts that are used to describe it. The analysis shows that the mixing of different concepts and analogies enable readers to understand the actions of the culprits, the act of money laundering, and the severity of the crime of corruption. This chapter demonstrates how metaphors can be used to make a complex and challenging issue easier to comprehend.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85145833548&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5334-7_13; https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-19-5334-7_13; https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5334-7_13; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-5334-7_13
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