Malaysia - Language from The Penang Bookshelf

Singapore: Kelly and Walsh. Board_book. Fair +. This is a companion volume to Winstedt's better known Dictionary of Colloquial Malay. The book includes about forty pages on grammar, a few pages on proverbs, while the bulk consists of sample conversations with rulers, chiefs and staff. The final section is on the Jawi script. 161 pages. Weight 0.4kg.… Read more about this item

Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 2006. Paperback. New. A wide ranging collection of essays from staff of the English Department of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malaya. The purpose of the volume is to demonstrate the varying theoretical and practical perspectives and approaches current in linguistics with a particular focus on English language learning and… Read more about this item

CR Barron. Paperback. Very Good. A fairly thorough introduction to the Malay language for British forces. Each chapter is a piece of Malay conversation or prose accompanied by explanatory vocabulary and grammar sections. Translations of each chapter into English are at the end of the book, which also has a military glossary and further vocabulary. 160 pages Weight… Read more about this item

Singapore: Kelly and Walsh, 1937. Eleventh edition. Paperback. Very Good. A once popular handbook for tourists and residents attempting to make a start on the Malay language. Now mainly a treasure of what was deemed necessary for communication between Europeans and Malayans at the zenith of British rule in the country. The book includes a brief grammar and vocabulary and… Read more about this item

Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 2000. First edition. Paperback. As New. The author seeks to diverge from the traditional grammatical and phonological study of language to look at verbal communication in a Malaysian setting. The research was carried out through analysing video recordings of Malaysian speakers. One of the main findings of the work was that overlaps… Read more about this item

Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 2003. First edition. Paperback. As New. A collection of papers from a conference at the University of Malaya in 2000. The papers look at the role of language in the intellectual functioning of the mind as well as more specific aspects of the process, i.e. perception, processing and comprehension of both spoke… Read more about this item

Milton Keynes, UK: Dodo Press, 2010. Reprint of Eighth Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. The purpose of this manual, originally written in 1881, was to be, according to the author, the first introduction for non-native Malay speakers to colloquial Malay. Previous manuals had been more academic. Having said that, the 210 pagemanual is preceded by a 48 page a… Read more about this item