A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of Jordanians Facebook status updates during COVID-19

This study investigates the communicative functions of status updates on Facebook during COVID-19. For this purpose, a corpus of 500 status updates was collected from 100 Facebook users for 90 consecutive days. Subsequently, the data were characterized into five speech acts drawing heavily on Searle...

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Main Authors: Hadeel Abdalhadi, Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh, Anas Al Huneety, Bassil Mashaqba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-01-01
Series:Ampersand
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039022000182