Author(s)

Yiqing Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Institute of Modern Media Technology and Art, Shanghai Publishing and Printing College, Shanghai, China

Corresponding Author

Yiqing Wang

ABSTRACT

Entering the third year of being kidnapped by the pandemic and being forced to face all the variants of Covid-19, the whole world has suffered great loss psychologically and physically. By collecting the official data from American CDC and British government Coronavirus Act 2020, this paper tried to sketch the information which could be extracted from the use of [Covid-19] lexis through the analysis of semantic prosody based on Corpus Linguistic. After analyzing the most used collocates with Covid-19 in the official documents, this paper explicates the Covid-19 focus of America and Britain government in the year 2022, which is community prevention, getting vaccinated, trying to teach the public to live with Covid, and issuing every policy confronting with the Covid problems. The study shows that America CDC are still trying to prevent the worst situation of the pandemic while the British government has chosen to peacefully accept the worst situation.

KEYWORDS

Semantic Prosody, Covid-19, American CDC, Coronavirus Act 2020

CITE THIS PAPER

Yiqing Wang, Compare the America and British's Official Attitude towards Covid-19 in 2022 from the Semantic Prosody Approach. Media and Communication Research (2022) Vol. 3: 31-36. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/mediacr.2022.030206.

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