Abstract
People use the language to make propositional statements, entities, objects, state of affairs, and so on and fulfil functions such as apologising, introducing, requesting and denying, etc. Speech act can be described as the action performed in uttering something, and the directives are functions to direct people's behaviour. Advice is a directive speech act. Different linguists classified the advice into direct, indirect, and conventionally indirect. The use of advice has been applied in communication and the written form of humankind for a long time. The speaker intended to give benefit to the hearer when he /she gives advice. The present study intended to shed light on the notion of the pragmatics of communication of health advice in covid -19. The data of this study were fifteen public health advice related to covid-19 collected from the official website of the World Health Organisation (WHO). They have been analysed pragmatically based on their type, strategies, and advisories. The study also aims to find out the consciousness of EFL learners with the health advice of covid-19 and what degree of conciseness comes and literal comprehension. The results of the pragmatic analysis have shown that the frequent type of advice is directive, the frequent strategy is imperative, and the frequent advisories is advising. At the same time, the results of the conducted interview have shown full consciousness, partial consciousness, and non-consciousness of the health advice of covid-19.
Highlights
People use language for communicating with each other to fulfil their needs by exchanging thoughts and ideas
The advice is a directive speech act applied in communication and the written form of humankind for a long time
The use of health advice has gone viral amid the covid-19 pandemic
Summary
People use language for communicating with each other to fulfil their needs by exchanging thoughts and ideas. Being able to communicate effectively considers an important skill. Yule (2010) refers to the significance of what the speaker means by his/her utterance. That means the speaker tries to convey meaning to the hearer, whereas the hearer tries to understand what the speaker means by saying a statement in a particular context. The deep understanding of how language is used is significant for both speaker and hearer to make the communication run well
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