Transitivity analysis of news texts on the Saudi ministry of health website: An investigation of health guidelines during COVID-19

The aim of this study is to investigate the awareness-raising activities and health guidelines for protection from new coronavirus during pandemic reported on Ministry Health website in Saudi Arabia. To achieve aim, employs critical discourse analysis (CDA) Halliday’s theory transitivity process types adopted as a framework news text. Literature showed that an interdisciplinary area investigation increasingly popular domain strategy scholars different fields. However, such has been little by healthcare researchers. analyze (namely material, mental, verbal, relational, behavioral, existential), quantitative qualitative approaches were employed get better understanding related texts. Like other studies, findings revealed material type (60%) highly dominated two This implies powerful role events actions be undertaken. Unlike first text, second text however contains behavioral meticulously highlight public awareness action. Investigating participants’ roles well circumstances components may offer more data appropriate further research.