Research Publications

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Myanmar Academy of Art & Science List of Research

No. Researcher Title Abstract Year
1781 Mya Mya AN INVESTIGATION INTO BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AND BUSINESS SKILLS IN MARKET LEADER BUSINESS ENGLISH COURSEBOOKS (3rd Ed.)* Market Leader Business English coursebooks (3rd Ed.) are used for English for Business Course offered in the four-year Bachelor of Arts in English for Professional Purposes (BA (EPP)) Programme. The purpose of the course is to fulfil the needs of EPP graduates who are going to work in various business fields. The purpose of this research was to investigate the business knowledge and skills provided in the coursebooks and their usefulness in EPP employees’ business field. Firstly, all English for Business coursebooks used in BA (EPP) programme were studied and analysed using an evaluation checklist proposed by Romanowski (2016) which was based on the theories of Hutchinson and Water (1987), Cunningsworth (1995), McGrath (2002) and McDonough and Shaw (2013) in order to examine business knowledge and business skills contained in the coursebooks. Then, EPP graduates working in business field were given a questionnaire to explore their responsibilities, and knowledge and skills they need in carrying out their daily business schedules and their opinions on the course. After that, the data were investigated and it was found that the business knowledge and skills contained in the prescribed English for Business coursebooks were suitable and helpful for BA (EPP) graduates and English for Business course was of great help for them to function in business field. The suggestions given were to integrate internship programmes in the course, include more practical tasks and arrange field trips for students so that they will get more experience from actual workplace and learn how the business is going well in real business world. 2021
1782 U Aung Kyi A STUDY OF STATE COUNSELLOR’S TRANSLATED SPEECH THROUGH VAN DIJK’S IDEOLOGICAL SQUARE Public speeches are ideologically loaded type of political discourse. The purpose of the paper was to identify the use of manipulation techniques in critical discourse analysis of political speech translation based on Daghigh’s (2018) model of political manipulation in translation. When public speeches are translated, they can be manipulated to serve the sociopolitical needs of the target society. State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi delivered her public speech on March 25, 2020 when Myanmar identified the first case of Covid-19 disease. Herspeech and its translated text by Aung Khin were used for data analysis in this paper. van Dijk’s (1998) ideological square as well as Daghigh’s model was used as research method in carrying out this analysis. It was found that the translator used promoting manipulation techniques more frequently than demoting manipulation techniques to keep his translation in line with the values set by the government. It is hoped that this study would help translation teachers and professional translators with better understanding of manipulation in political speech translation. It is also hoped that further studies on different genres of political texts could be undertaken in future. 2021
1783 Thida Soe TRACING FEMINIST BELIEFS OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN WRITER THROUGH HER WELL-KNOWN NOVEL This research explores radical feminist beliefs injected by an American woman writer Marilyn French in her well-known novel The Women’s Room which was first published in 1977. The objectives of this research are to investigate types of feminist beliefs found in the novel, to find out which type of belief is the most dominant in the novel, and to examine whether the writer’s beliefs reflected her society at that time. The investigation was conducted mainly based on Willis’ (1984) feminist radicalism, focusing on core beliefs of radical feminists, and some American scholars’ social texts that revealed the conditions of women in the mid twentieth century. The findings showed that of all types of beliefs, political beliefs occurred most in the novel. Moreover, the research proved that Marilyn French’s feminist beliefs reflected the bitter experiences of women in the patriarchal society in America at her time. 2021
1784 Su Khine Oo A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF GENDER REPRESENTATION THROUGH INCANTATIONS AND REPORTING VERBS ACCOMPANYING INCANTATIONS IN THE NOVEL HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS BY J. K. ROWLING Taylor (2003) advocated that gender is “an all-pervasive and extremely influential construct in the lives of individuals”. The way gender is represented in youth literature is worth studying as it can reflect the attitude of society towards gender. It is important to observe how language expressions explicitly or implicitly contribute gender representation through discourse elements like reporting verbs. In analyzing such elements from which gender representation can be inferred, corpus-based approach should be used as it offers, in Hunt (2015)’s words, “a degree of objectivity and efficiency not possible in manual ideological analysis, as well as a set of tools particularly useful for the lexical analysis of considerable quantities of text”. This paper attempts to explore gender representation through types of incantation and reporting verbs which accompany dialogues of incantation. Types of incantation were categorized using definitions by Rowling (2012) and Levy (2013). To reinforce reliability of data analysis and interpretation, WordSmith 8.0, Kendall's tau-b (?b) correlation coefficient and Stepwise Multiple Regression were used in this paper. It is hoped that this paper will be useful for demographic researchers, teachers and students who are approaching gender representation through dialogues in the novel. 2021
1785 Aung Zaw Moe A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE TRANSLATION OF METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS IN ZAWGYI’S ‘BEING BRAVE’ (YE KHET THE PA) POEM BY WIN PE AND AH MAY THAR This research focuses on the comparative study of the translations by Win Pe (Mya Zin) and Ah May Thar of metaphorical expressions in Zawgyi’s ‘Being Brave’ (Ye Khet The Pa), the sixth of the forty-one poems under the title ‘Hyacinth's Way’ (Beda Lan). The entire poem is regarded as a highly metaphorical poetic piece by many scholars and critics. The translator, Win Pe, is a prolific author, poet and scholar. He has translated many classical as well as modern Myanmar poems into English. By permission of the original poet, Zawgyi, his translations of the series of ‘Hyacinth Way’ poems appeared in the ‘Working People’s Daily’ at different times from 1989 to 1990. On the other hand, Ah May Thar is also a well-experienced poetic translator who has translated many Myanmar poems into English. In this paper, the translation procedures the translators use in rendering the metaphorical expressions in the poem were studied comparatively, based on the theories proposed by Newmark (1988). The study revealed that in translating metaphorical expressions in the poem, Win Pe used the metaphorical translation procedures of 'reproducing the same image in the target language', and ‘conversion of metaphor to sense’, and Ah May Thar used the procedures of 'reproducing the same image in the target language', ‘conversion of metaphor to sense’, ‘deletion’, and 'producing the same metaphor combined with sense’ are used and the procedure of 'reproducing the same image in the target language' is most common in the translations. 2021
1786 Htar Thet Thet Oo FINDING ON HISTORICAL RECORDS FROM THE PHOTOS OF YADANA (B.O.C WORKERS JOURNAL) 1956-1962* This paper attempt to examine the conditions of oilfield workers and the effort of BOC Company from 1956 to 1962 based on the Journal of BOC oilfield workers at that time. The purpose of this paper is to know the conditions of oil wells, the types of exploration areas, the production of oil and gas, the nature of oilfields workers worked in BOC control. In order to do this research, an examination is focused on primary sources especially on Yadana Oilfield Worker’s Journal from 1956-1962, and personal interviews with local workers in Yenangyaung and Chauk. Depending on the finding of sources, I am going to expose especially in the conditions of oilfield workers, the joint venture of BOC and Myanmar Government. 2021
1787 Myint Myint Moe BULLOCK CART MAKING INDUSTRY IN SALIN TOWNSHIP (1886-2014) Bullock carts have been used the time of the Enlightened Buddha. It is still being used. These are many things that are related with bullock cart-social, economic and cultural. There is nothing to believe that bullock cart cultural will disappear from Modern Myanmar. Myanmar traditional bullock cart making in Salin is popular, and in wide use. Since the time of Enlightened Buddha, the bullock carts have been used. Yat-wheel are appeared in the 2500 years age. Although the Hlae Pon taung had been used, there was no Tan-ku. But there is Hlae-Wun-Yoe and it was long. These bullock carts were in the age of Su-La-Pon and Ma-ha-pon merchants. These are Wuntin Bullock carts. These bullock carts are used in the successive eras. The carts tracks are found in Pyu Age and Hanlin Age. King Narathihapatae fled and refuge refuge to the place named Hlae kya. In 1625, Dhamayanthi Pyo composed about Bullock Carts. In 1696, Thanwara Pyo composed about bullock carts in Inwa Age. In 1756, King Alaungmintaya had used bullock carts to fight against the battles. In 1853, the groups of bullock carts are found during the Yadanapon Period. In 1942, the number of bullock cart was 785473. One bullock cart can be used to plough the five acres. About 200 viss can be weighted on one bullock carts. There are two kinds of Hlae. They are Hlae Yin and HlaeKyan. The bullock cart can be used to go about twenty miles a day. The cart track need to have the width of 6 feet. The bullock cart did not have the iron metal expect Nan Yinn Khway, Nan Phar Khway and Hlae Phanaunt. It contains about 25 parts and there are seven kinds of Hlae. The bullock carts are still used and then it plays in the social and economical affairs. 2021
1788 Wai Wai Hein A STUDY OF THE TITLES AND TITLE-RELATED FACTS DURING KONBAUNG PERIOD From Bagan Period till Konbaung Period, the Kings awarded titles to his royal relatives, ministers and officers, as well as to those who had come to serve as a subject, the young maidens presented from a foreign chieftain, and the envoys. The paper highlights that titles were awarded to those dutiful officers, while those who angered the king were revoked from assuming the titles. Primary sources and secondary sources were referred to and the analytical method is employed. 2021
1789 Aung MyoTun DON PAULO OR FR. P. ABBONA IN MYANMAR HISTORY The general aim of this paper is referred to the Franco-Myanmar relation and the Italian-Myanmar relation including the Italian-Myanmar treaty. The main purpose is to describe the activities of Fr. P. Abbona in Myanmar politics in late Konbaung period. In writing this paper, the datas, evidences extracted from the Myanmar chronicles, Peripatetic history, written by Dr. Than Tun, the papers, published by the Roman Catholic Church and other historical papers and books were used. Moreover, the advices of Fr. Joe Du and Fr. Peter Sein Hlaing Oo were taken into consideration in this paper. Three outcomes of this paper are Christian missionary priests who became important in Late Konbaung politics due to the then current situation, Fr. P. Abbona’s activities and advices led to the progress of Myanmar politics and diplomacy and King Mindon himself realized that the building of the country entirely depended on the foreign relations. Fr. Paul Abbona served not only an advisor but also diplomat for Myanmar kings. This research paper is a paper evaluating Don Paulo called Fr. P. Abbona who took an active role in Myanmar politics in Late Konbaung period. 2021
1790 Kyaw Swe Nyunt MYANMAR SOCIETY AND TEA CULTURE This paper analyzes the relationship of Myanmar society and tea culture, which is thoroughly pervasive throughout Myanmar society, regardless of social fabric: royal or common, rich or poor, or ruler and the ruled. The study is made from the historical point of view. Tea culture is age old tradition in Myanmar. No one can say for sure the introduction of tea to Myanmar society. But in accordance with historical evidences, we have found that kings usually had raised and eulogized their war hero by granting them the tea pot to be a kind of their insignia or royally granted paraphernalia. The paper describes the use of tea as a symbol of peace, the inclusion of it as an essential prerequisite in the entertainment of social, religious and many other ceremonies and occasions, the use of it as a kind of invitation to ceremonies and occasions, the royal status of it and the spread of it throughout Myanmar society. For the compilation of this paper, desk top research is done. The goal of this paper is to encourage sustainability of tea culture in Myanmar society and to be able to render support the expansion and sustainability of tea market, domestic and abroad. 2021