COVID-19 and Advice Speech Act: A Syntactic-Pragmatic Study
Abstract
Advising is a significant activity in a number of organizational health settings, including face-to-face counseling and the dissemination of information via pamphlets, posters, television, and Internet. Health-related advice includes anything from medicine to stopping smoking, getting immunized, and modifying one's diet. A strange sickness initially manifested itself in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. This disease spread rapidly over the world and was eventually named coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Due to the disease's global expansion, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it a pandemic, which indicates that it is spreading among individuals in a large number of nations, resulting in mortality. In early May, the WHO announced that more than 200 thousand individuals had died. The situation is worse, as the number of reported cases continues to rise daily. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the language of acts and advising actions, as well as the right method of advising. The advising act verbs and COVID-19 can be investigated syntactically and pragmatically. There is an effective function for advice speeches in relation to COVID-19 announcements and advice. Additionally, there is a strong correlation between the number of mistakes and accuracy in the eight questions across the eight groups. The study's findings indicate that Iraqi students do not follow health recommendations supplied by foreign health organizations. Concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO is one of the leaders capable of effectively managing its concerns and taking proactive measures to contain the disease by issuing directives addressing the viruses as contagious agents. By including these characteristics of syntactic-pragmatic advising acts, these sorts of actions may be comprehended and executed by everyone in any scenario when speaking. Iraqi EFL learners had an unsatisfactory performance evaluation result as a result of inadequate teaching of PV in connection with public advice during the COVID-19 epidemic.
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PDFDOI: https://doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v14n2p358
World Journal of English Language
ISSN 1925-0703(Print) ISSN 1925-0711(Online)
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