Directive and assertive speech acts in selected Covid 19 news

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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.