Introduction (Kumaran Rajandran).- Chapter 1. Voices of economic competence: Legitimizing the government in budget speeches (Kumaran Rajandran).- Chapter 2. Legitimizing the government through vocational roles: A conceptual metaphor analysis of budget speeches (Farrah Diebaa Rashid Ali).- Chapter 3. 'My appeal to the Malaysian people': Legitimizing the appointment as the 8th Prime Minister (Shanti Sandaran).- Chapter 4. Ethnic inclusions and exclusions in the discourses of the Dignity Conference (Mary Varghese).- Chapter 5. Selling race and religion in Malay language newspapers during the 2013 and 2018 general election campaigns (Siti Nurnadilla Mohamad Jamil).- Chapter 6. Contesting views in the representation of ICERD in English language newspapers (Pei Soo Ang).- Chapter 7. Framing the Tanjung Piai by-election in multilingual Malaysian newspapers (Prasana Rosaline Fernandez).- Chapter 8. Conceptualizing money laundering in the 1MDB scandal: An analysis of metaphors in Sarawak Report (Rachel Lim).- Chapter 9. KitaJagaKita: (De)legitimizing the government during the 2020 movement control order (Charity Lee).- Chapter 10. Seeking legitimation in political uncertainties: Reforming the media? (Kow Kwan Yee).