Stance Acts in Select Nigerian and South Korean News Report on COVID-19 Pandemic

The widespread of COVID-19 pandemic across the globe has been a subject discourse in media, with different media outlets striving to report issues general public since its outbreak. question objectivity portraying gained and will continue receive scholarly attention. Hence, print relaying crisis Nigeria South Korea is called into this article which investigates stance acts reportage by few select newspapers Korea. Twenty-eight extracts were purposively sampled, 7 each from Nigeria’s Daily Trust This Day as well Korea’s Times Herald respectively. intending uncover types adopted newspaper, their pragmatic functions, choice lexico-grammatical resources for expressing news pandemic. study draws insight conceptual framework linguistic stance. analysis shows that epistemic, deontic affective featured report. They are used evaluate pandemic, provide evidence support propositions made, unveil dispositions relation issue. Also, assertive, commissive, expressive directive speech serve relay facts, indicate commitment, express feelings issue order. Lexico-grammatical features such modals, hedges clauses signalled verbs, adjectives nouns function introduce acts. Finally, displayed proclivity use objective language reporting even though there very slight traces subjective some reports.