Gender and sexuality have gradually become the focus of more semiotic landscape research, however, studies relating specifically to sex tourism spaces are limited and with those in the Thai context even more so. Therefore, this paper examines the discursive construction of Phatphong 2, one of the famous destinations for sex
Despite the increasing importance of English both in Thai society and worldwide, the appropriateness of code-switching practices has been a controversial issue among Thai speakers, especially those in Generation Y whose attitude runs the gamut from acceptance to rejection. Thus, this paper examines Thai speakers in Generation Y’s attitudes towards
Language is inextricably linked to daily human life as a social phenomenon. Therefore, social dynamics bring about ongoing linguistic variation. Using traditional and experimental methods, research here aims to look at how the linguistic variation of Southeast Asian languages relates to a dynamic ways of life, attitudes, and societal fluidity.
This paper aims to investigate acoustic variation of (kh) in Fai Mun village Phuan, Pa Kha sub-district, Tha Wang Pha district, Nan province among 3 age groups. The informants are divided into three groups based on their age: the first group is 60 years and above, the second group is
In order to find out and empirically demonstrate the role of English and Vietnamese in modern Vietnam society, we have inspected the language data, both obtained from fieldworks and internet, from several different domains, law, media, education, literature, and politics, in the aspect of linguistic landscape, language use, and translation.
This research aims to study the language situation in Singapore, both in the scope of linguistic landscape and translation. The study of linguistic landscapes provided us with a broad perspective of the language situation in Singapore. Signs from the government sector and public sector are analyzed through scripts as appearing
The Thai language has been used as the main language in the domain of newspapers and magazines in Thailand for a long time. However, global changes have brought more important roles of English as a lingua franca in Southeast Asia and worldwide. English has inevitably become increasingly important in Thai
This research focuses on the comparison of sequential conversational dominance and participatory conversational dominance in Thai male and female speech. Thesse aspects of dominance are regarded as a controlling action. Therefore, this research hypothesizes that male speakers will exhibit more sequential successful controlling action (SSCA), the action of answering the
The purposes of the study are: 1) to compare Thai and English speakers’ degree of time specification, and 2) to compare their abilities in remembering temporal information and ordertinf the situations chronologically The Hypotheses are the degree of time specification in English travelogues written by native speakers of English is
Gender and sexuality are studied by scholars in various fields. In linguistics, the relationship between language and gender/sexuality is of interest in areas such as sociolinguistics, pragmatics, (critical) discourse studies, corpus linguistics and semiotic landscapes. Adopting various approaches, we explore how various linguistic elements in the Thai language contribute to
