ISSN: 2265-6294

An Investigation of Microstructure Analysis for World Health Organizatioan Speeches during Covid-19 Pandemic: Adopted Van Dijk Theory

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Nagham Mohammed Abdulwahid,Abdulkarim Fadhil Jameel

Abstract

Manipulation, broadly defined as is a kind of covert behaviours or a means, whether linguistic or non- linguistic, used by manipulators communicative encounters to achieve their goals, desires, and certain interests regardless of the perceptual, cognitive, and emotional feelings of their interlocutors. In this process, the objective of the study was to explore the use of language elements to perform manipulation speeches by World Health Organization related to Covid -19 pandemic issues. The study adopted a descriptive and interpretive research design. The corpus of the study comprised of 6 transcriptions from December 2019 to December 2021 purposefully selected. Teun A. van Dijk, (2008) was used for data analyses. Under microstructure analysis, syntax and lexical application in the selected conferences were analysed particularly to identify power relations involved in the production of the selected conferences. Overall, findings suggest that the WHO is in the power of controlling the content structure, frames, and the representation of virus situations. The WHO determined the issues to be focused on when reporting the government's progress in fighting the virus. WHO organization used Formal registers than informal to show increase the credibility of reports and updates regarding the virus. WHO used modals of certainty “will” more than those of probability to show the effects of Covid -19. Complex sentences were the most elocutionary and illocutionary acts. The results of the study have been demonstrated that this speech has its distinctive features and that language was used tactfully to arrive at the attended goals of the speaker.

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