Moving on speech act theory, this study aims to analyse texts in Covid-19 Ads from different parts of the world in order to explore the pragmatic force of mass media discourse across contexts. Thus, the data source of the study is 450 Covid-19 Ads from countries in Asian context, in European context, and in American context compiled from the websites of countries national web platforms. Following qualitative paradigm, the linguistic functions of Covid-19 Ads were analysed on the basis of descriptive analysis moving on ready-made categories in order to compare and contrast the sort of pragmatic force employed in Ads. The overall findings show that, regarding the frequency of illocutionary acts across contexts, there are no significant differences among the Ads in terms of the pragmatic force. Directives and assertives were found to be the most frequent illocutionary acts in texts. In this respect, Covid-19 Ads seemingly perform the same function in mass media discourse of Asian, European, and American contexts; that is, the public discourse is pragmatically manipulated by the Ads for the sake of health protection practices.
Covid-19 Ads Pragmatic Force Speech Act Theory Mass Media Discourse Contrastive Analysis Pragmatics
Bu çalışmanın bilimsel ve etik parametrelere göre yapılandırılması ve yürütülmesinde önem taşıyan nitel araştırma deseni ve bu desen odaklı süreçlere yönelik konulardaki değerli bilimsel desteği ve büyük katkıları için kıymetli hocam sayın Prof. Dr. Mustafa Sözbilir’e teşekkürü bir borç bilirim.
Moving on speech act theory, this study aims to analyse texts in Covid-19 Ads from different parts of the world in order to explore the pragmatic force of mass media discourse across contexts. Thus, the data source of the study is 450 Covid-19 Ads from countries in Asian context, in European context, and in American context compiled from the websites of countries national web platforms. Following qualitative paradigm, the linguistic functions of Covid-19 Ads were analysed on the basis of descriptive analysis moving on ready-made categories in order to compare and contrast the sort of pragmatic force employed in Ads. The overall findings show that, regarding the frequency of illocutionary acts across contexts, there are no significant differences among the Ads in terms of the pragmatic force. Directives and assertives were found to be the most frequent illocutionary acts in texts. In this respect, Covid-19 Ads seemingly perform the same function in mass media discourse of Asian, European, and American contexts; that is, the public discourse is pragmatically manipulated by the Ads for the sake of health protection practices.
Pragmatic Force Speech Act Theory Covid-19 Ads Mass Media Discourse Contrastive Analysis Pragmatics
Primary Language | English |
---|---|
Journal Section | Research Article |
Authors | |
Publication Date | April 19, 2021 |
Submission Date | March 30, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 Volume: 10 Issue: 2 |
MANAS Journal of Social Studies