Directive and Assertive Speech Acts in Selected Covid 19 News

Assist. Prof. Dr. Hussain Hameed Ma'yuuf; Hayder Hameed Ghitheeth

doi:10.33193/JALHSS.63.2021.400

Assist. Prof. Dr. Hussain Hameed Ma'yuuf Department of English – College of Education for Human Sciences – University of Babylon – Iraq
Hayder Hameed Ghitheeth Department of English – College of Education for Human Sciences – University of Babylon – Iraq

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33193/JALHSS.63.2021.400

الكلمات المفتاحية: Speech Acts, Covid 19

الملخص

Covid 19 is one of the common events that is disseminated across the world nowadays . People tackle all the sources of media just to know how this virus destroys the life of the plant . The news of the number of the infected cases is the key point of this news at the moment . As such , the news of covid 19 has become worth studying for the researchers in the field of linguistics to know the linguistic aspect of this news . The study applies the pragmatic analysis by using the types of speech acts to find out which one of these acts is used more than the other . The study has reached out to the results that are highly important for the news of covid 19 . The study uses two types of speech acts , assertive and directive in analysis.

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