Exploring Linguistic Features in COVID-19 Editorials: A Multidimensional Analysis of The Express Tribune

Authors

  • Sumera Shan Ahmad PhD Candidate, Dept. Applied Linguistics, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan, and Lecturer at University of Management and Technology, Lahore Author
  • Prof. Dr. Muhammad Asim Mahmood Dean, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan Author

Keywords:

The Express Tribune, editorials, MD analasis, Covid-19, linguistic features

Abstract

The purpose of the current research is to assess the approaches of the texts of editorials written during Covid-19. In order to achieve this goal, editorials from The Express Tribune were selected because this newspaper is available online and is among top five read newspapers of Pakistan. As corpus of the study, two hundred editorials were collected which were specifically related to Covid-19. Biber’s Multidimensional model which is known as Old MD has been used for the analysis. After collecting and compiling, the data has been tagged through MAT Tagger. The obtained raw data has been processed using factor analysis. The results have revealed that the editorials written on Covid-19 are not persuading directly to the readers rather implicitly they have drawn the attention of the readers towards the subject. Moreover, they have used formal language and are written precisely.

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Published

2024-12-06

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 4 (2024): Journal of Applied Linguistics and TESOL (JALT)

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