Abstract
Speech, simply, is a kind of communication used to convey a speaker's intentions and ideas. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and interpret transitivity and modality as well as their use in Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' Speeches on COVID-19. The data consists of transcripts of two speeches presented at the COVID-19 media briefings on March 11, 2020, and April 1, 2021, which are published on the (World Health Organization website) (www.who.int). The transcripts are reviewed and examined in terms of Halliday's (1994) 'Transitivity theory, as well as Lock's (1996) 'Modality theory'. The findings show that the speeches employed rational, material, mental, behavioral, and linguistic transitivity processes, as well as obligation, potentiality, ability, inclination, usuality, and probability modality. The usage of transitivity and modality, with reference to the context of speeches, reveals different interpretations of meaning. Furthermore, this study contributes and adds efficient methods and good practices to health socialization throughout the pandemic, which has a significant impact on the public's understanding of how to correctly handle COVID-19.
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