Editorials in Malay Vernacular Newspapers

bibliography

list of extracts

text notes

list of words

list of rhyme words

Bibliography

title:		Editorials in Malay Vernacular Newspapers
edition:		Mohd. Taib bin Osman (ed.), The Language of the Editorials in Malay Editorials in Malay Vernacular Newspapers up to 1941, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1966.
dates:		1877-1935. (For dates of individual items, refer to the list of editorials.)
provenance:		Singapore and the Malay states.
words:		9754 words, including 19 verses.
references:		to the pages of the printed edition.

 

Editorial notes

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As one of the editor’s aims was to investigate the adoption of English terminology, the texts include English words.   Where possible these have been indexed also in their Malay forms.

References:

•  William R. Roff, Bibliography of Malay and Arabic Periodicals published in the Straits Settlements and Peninsular Malay States 1876-1941 with an annotated union list of holdings in Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom, London: O.U.P., 1972 (London Oriental Bibliographies, volume 3).

•  William R. Roff, The Origins of Malay Nationalism, Yale University Press, 1967 (Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 2).

•  A.C. Milner, The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya: Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

 

Preparation

Added:  March 2003

The printed text was double-scanned for the MCP in Canberra.  The spelling has been modernised, but the marking of reduplication has been retained as reflecting the practice of the original.