A Pragmatic Study of Instructions on Covid-19 in English and Central Kurdish Media Outlets
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https://doi.org/10.25098/8.1.35Keywords:
Speech act, instruction, mixed game model, , dialogue, principles of probability, dialogue, principles of probabilityAbstract
This prospective study was designed to investigate how media institutions, with a particular focus on Facebook, provided instructions to the public during Covid-19. The researcher adopted Wiegand's (2010) mixed methods game model. For this study, 50 English and 50 Central Kurdish health advices on Facebook were analyzed in a triangulation method since the study requires different methods to obtain more accurate results. Notably, the study tries to answer the following questions: firstly, what kinds of speech acts have been used to perform instruction on Facebook in English and Central Kurdish? Secondly, what rhetorical devices were used in English and Central Kurdish media outlets while raising awareness during Covid-19? Finally, to what extent tutorial health ministries’ announcements have persuaded people to take extra precautionary measures against Covid-19 in the Kurdistan regional government (KRG)? The results show that the vast majority used speech acts both in English and Central Kurdish media outlets are representative speech acts since instruction, according to the model utilized, is counted as a representative speech act. The findings revealed that the cooperation strategy was highly used in the English media; by contrast, the power strategy was significantly exploited in the Kurdish media.
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