Publication: Collocation and Discursive Construction of Covid-19 in WHO Director General’s Discourse: A Corpus-based Study
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2630-0672 (Print), 2672-9431 (Online)
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LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network
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15
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32
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Collocation and Discursive Construction of Covid-19 in WHO Director General’s Discourse: A Corpus-based Study
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This research investigated the discursive construction of Covid-19 in WHO director general’s discourse through the lens of corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. 255 speeches of the WHO director general were collected, forming a 234,149-words corpus. Collocations of ‘Covid-19’ were generated and analyzed in terms of the semantic categories and the representation of Covid-19. The results indicated that Covid-19 was discursively represented as posing severe multifaceted threats to the world. Furthermore, the discursive construction of Covid-19 was found to promote the image of WHO as an active and ethical organization. Thus, discourse was used not only for informational purposes, but it was also manipulated for self-promotion and legitimation.