Comparison of the Themes of Malaysian Friday Sermons between the Year 2010 and 2015

Muhammad ‘Aasim Asyafi’ie bin Ahmad, Mokhtar bin Harun, Puspa Inayat binti Khalid, Mohd Ibrahim Shapiai, Md. Najib bin Ibrahim, Siti Zaleha Abdul Hamid

Abstract


One of the analyses used in the field of corpus linguistics is comparing the word occurrence from different text corpora. This technique can be used to identify how a certain discipline change over time through text analysis. In this study, the changes of the context of Malaysian Friday sermons are investigated. The text corpus was developed by taking the Friday sermons spoken in Kuala Lumpur mosques in the year 2015. A total of 52 sermons were used for the text corpus because there are a total of 52 Friday sermons in a year. The Malay text corpus was constructed by using PHP and MySQL, and only the top words spoken were inserted into the text corpus. This text corpus is then compared with a previously developed text corpus from 2010 Friday sermons. The new text corpus overlapped with the old text corpus by 82%. Analysis also shows the difference of semantic between 2010 and 2015 Friday sermons.

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DOI: http://doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v6.i1.pp212-218

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Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (IJEECS)
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