Sociocultural Context of Sex Work among Mak Nyah (Trans Gender Women) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This study investigates further the previous paper by Shamsul Nahar and Al-Murisi (1997) by examining the interactive effects of the variables in that paper and introducing other variables associated with corporate governance and political costs. The present study postulated that percentage of external directors on audit committee interacted with the presence of an accountant on audit committee and with the number of years an audit committee in existence, respectively, to influence audit committee effectiveness. The study also posited that the interaction of the presence of an accountant on audit committee and the number of years an audit committee in existence positively and significantly influenced audit committee effectiveness. Addition. ally, the roles of leadership structure, audit committee chairman, and a firm's size on audit committee effectiveness were also investigated. Using a multiple regression from a sample consisting the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange listed companies, results showed that only a firm's size significantly influenced audit committee effectiveness in the predicted direction. Other variables, on the other hand, did not show any significant influence on audit committee effectiveness.

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Recorded Sessions from Kuala Lumpur & Video Library

International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery ◽

10.33589/24.6.0230 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 24 (6) ◽

pp. 230-230

Keyword(s):

Kuala Lumpur ◽

Video Library

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Attitude Datives in Social Context – The Analytic Tools

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474434072.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Youssef A. Haddad

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Cognitive Grammar ◽

Stage Model ◽

Sociocultural Context ◽

Present Material ◽

Situational Context ◽

Pragmatic Markers ◽

Activity Types ◽

Contextualization Cues

This chapter defines attitude datives as evaluative and relational pragmatic markers that allow the speaker to present material from a specific perspective and to invite the hearer to view the material from the same perspective. It identifies three types of context that are pertinent to the analysis of these datives. These are the sociocultural context (e.g., values, beliefs), the situational context (i.e., identities, activity types), and the co-textual context (e.g., contextualization cues). The chapter draws on Cognitive Grammar and Theory of Stance and puts forth a sociocognitive model called the stancetaking stage model. In this model, when a speaker uses an attitude dative construction, she directs her hearer’s attention to the main content of her message and instructs him to view this content through the attitude dative as a filter. In this sense, the attitude dative functions as a perspectivizer and the main content becomes a perspectivized thought.

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