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VOL. 5, ISSUE 2 (2019)
Genre analysis of official notifications of health department with reference to moves and linguistic features
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Dr. Muhammad Arfan Lodhi, Saima Shoukat, Fariha Tahira, Farzana Ismail
Abstract
This study presents the result of genre analysis of the official notifications of Health Department of the Govt. of Punjab. Forty authentic notifications relating to two departments of Health were collected and included in the study. The notifications were examined in respect of their move structure and strategies, text coherence, linguistic features and politeness strategies. Detailed investigation of notifications from each group was carried out first to demonstrate the method and process used to implement genre analysis. Observation, content analysis and codification methods were adopted for data collection. The results reveal that writer does not use all the moves in the notifications. Only move 2 (subject) shows 100% in one department and move 5 (ending) show 100% in other department. Data further explicates that simple present tense and present continuous tense is used in every notification. The conclusion indicates that this type of analysis provides the future researcher with essential information that can be used to develop more suitable move structure.
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Pages:11-17
How to cite this article:
Dr. Muhammad Arfan Lodhi, Saima Shoukat, Fariha Tahira, Farzana Ismail "Genre analysis of official notifications of health department with reference to moves and linguistic features". International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research, Vol 5, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 11-17
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