A Textual Stylistic Analysis on Government instructions and Awareness Raising via Mass Media and Social Media .

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been declared as a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO). During this phase of the health crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, news in print, electronic as well as the social media was abuzz with several emerging and reemerging terminologies. Terminologies consist of collections of words or phrases, called terms, aggregated in a systematic fashion to represent the conceptual information that makes up a given knowledge domain, Terms in a terminology generally correspond to actual events or entities and to their cognitive representations in people's minds. Some of them, such as “social distancing,” “infodemic,” “flattening the curve,” “quarantine,” “cluster containment,” and others were not in routine use but have suddenly reemerged and become the key toward understanding the disease and its prevention. The main objective of this research the investigation of the government in media and social media campaigns .Many of these terms have been a part of public health strategies used for centuries for containment of the spread of infectious diseases. These terms span across social, epidemiological, and administrative contexts concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. In this research, we will study the use of terms for general and specific reasons, we will take the example of the use of terms by the Algerian government instructions and awareness raising via social media and mass media during the pandemic of covid19. This research is based on qualitative method performed by collecting the posts of social media user’s and the Algerian newspaper articles during this period from several levels. From the results obtained we can say that language is a powerful tool in all domains especially raising public health awareness