Mohamed Hafiz Bin Mohamed Juraimi
Hi, I am Hafiz (they/them), and I am currently pursuing Master of Arts (Research) in English Language and Linguistics under the NUS Research Scholarship. I did my Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English Language with a minor in Gender Studies at NUS. I am part of the project team managing the Corpus of Singapore English Messages (CoSEM) — a corpus of online text messages collected between 2016 and 2022 for the study of Colloquial Singapore English, which is now open for public access.
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| Dissertation Topic/ Title | A Sketch Grammar of Colloquial Singapore Malay (Tentative Title) |
| Dissertation Advisor | Associate Professor Mie Hiramoto
Associate Professor Lee Huiying Nala |
| Recent Presentations | Re;fuse-ing the GenderPolitics: A Case of the Islamic Religious Discourse in Singapore. The Sixth Annual COEDA Conference, School of English, The University of Hong Kong, 15-16 September 2023.
“Sia, siak, sial, siol: Variation in Colloquial Singapore English sia”. With Jun Jie Lim, Wilkinson Gonzales, Jakob Leimgruber, and Mie Hiramoto. New Ways of Analyzing Variation. Asia Pacific 7, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 14-16 December 2022. |
| Publications | In review: Mohamed Hafiz, Mie Hiramoto, Jun Jie Lim, Wilkinson Gonzales & Jakob Leimgruber. Variation in Colloquial Singapore English sia. Special issue on World Englishes and Sociolinguistics variation. World Englishes. (to be published in 2024) |
| Modules Taught | Teaching Assistant for ‘EL4253: Language, Gender and Sexual Identities’ under the Undergraduate Teaching Opportunity Program (UTOP). |
| Other Experience and Information | NUS Graduate Research Scholarship
Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) Prize for the Honours Year Student with the Best Honours Thesis of relevance to the Malay/Muslim Community in Singapore |