尼日利亚部分报纸对新冠肺炎疫情报道的语用分析

O. Adeoti
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语言是记者手中的关键工具;他们为了达到许多目的而随意使用语言。因此,本研究探讨了一项务实的调查,即在选定的报纸对尼日利亚冠状病毒大流行的报道中,意义是如何被解释的。Mey(2001)的语用行为理论被用于分析2020年2月至2020年6月期间从The Punch和The Vanguard Newspapers中有意选择的十(10)个数据。研究发现,新冠肺炎报纸报道的务实相关性嵌入了其媒体功能,因为它是解读冠状病毒报纸报道中固有信息的指标,也是警告尼日利亚公民保持安全的一种做法。研究还表明,所使用的实践取决于语境、情境以及说话者和读者现有的共同知识。据观察,在尼日利亚新冠肺炎大流行期间,记者利用新闻标题进行了几次警告、宣传、告知、曝光等行为,以实现不同的目标,并向听众/读者传达许多含义。结果表明,尼日利亚媒体在报道疫情方面表现良好,这反过来又提高了人们的认识。然而,报道并不深入,因为报道的大多数故事都很短,而且主要是直接的新闻。本文的结论是,记者使用语境语言来增进读者之间的社会关系。
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A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Newspapers' Coverage of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
Language is a pivotal instrument in the hand of journalists; they manipulate language at their disposal for accomplishing numerous goals. Thus, this study explores a pragmatic investigation of how meanings are interpreted in the selected newspapers’ coverage of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Nigeria. Mey’s (2001) Pragmatic Acts Theory was used to analyze ten (10) data selected purposively from The Punch and The Vanguard Newspapers between February 2020 and June 2020. The study found out that the pragmatic relevance of the COVID-19 newspapers’ coverage is embedded in its media functions as it serves as an indicator to interpret the messages inherent in the coronavirus newspapers’ coverage and a pract of warning to the citizens of Nigeria to stay safe. The study also revealed that the practs used depend on context, situation and existing shared-knowledge of both the speaker and the reader. It was observed that journalists use the news headlines to perform several acts of warning, sensitising, informing, exposing, etc. to achieve different goals and pass numerous meanings to their listeners/readers during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria. Results indicated that the Nigerian media performed well in terms of covering the pandemic, which in turn created awareness. However, the coverage was not in-depth as most of the reported stories were short and were predominantly straight news. This paper concludes that journalists use contextual language to enhance social relations among the readers.
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