KUWAIT

Extract 1

KUWAIT: ||The prices of some computer parts in Kuwait have increased due to the coronavirus outbreak and delays in shipments from China.||[[“There’s no ban on any shipments from China, but due to the delays and the demand by customers, prices have been increasing,”]][[a Pakistani computer shop owner told Kuwait Times on the condition of anonymity.]]

||One of his customers said he visits the shop because he loves to play video games, [[and whenever he encounters problems with his computer, he immediately brings the unit to his favorite shop.|| “Yes, I have noticed an increase in prices recently…<<they say it’s due to the coronavirus in China,”>>he said.|| ||Another customer said he paid KD 18 for a laptop part in early January, but yesterday, when he returned for another repair, the same part cost him KD 25.|| “They said it’s because of the coronavirus in China,” he said.||

||There have been no recorded cases of COVID-19 in Kuwait, but last month, Kuwait barred the entry of all Chinese nationals to the country.||||Meanwhile, Kuwaiti citizens were asked to delay their travel plans to countries with coronavirus infections.||

||Kuwaiti Ambassador to China SamihJohar Hayat called on Kuwaitis to refrain from visiting China unless truly necessary due to the spread of the coronavirus.|| ||The death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak has soared to 1,600, with most recorded deaths in China.||

Extract 2

CONCORD, New Hampshire — ||New Hampshire public health officials are asking all travelers who have arrived in the state from China in the last 14 days to stay home and watch for symptoms of the coronavirus.||

||China’s death toll from the new virus rose to 259 on Saturday.||||The United States declared a public health emergency on Friday and President Donald Trump signed an order barring entry to foreign nationals who visited China within the last 14 days||. ||The restrictions don’t apply to immediate family of American citizens and permanent residents.||

||The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said it will work with federal officials to implement the new monitoring program||. ||It recommends those who previously arrived in New Hampshire from China stay home and watch for symptoms of fever or respiratory illness.||

Clause Analysis of Extract 1

||The prices of some computer parts in Kuwait have increased due to the coronavirus outbreak and delays in shipments from China.|| independent

There have been no recorded cases of COVID-19 in Kuwait, but last month, Kuwait barred the entry of all Chinese nationals to the country.|| independent

||Kuwaiti Ambassador to China SamihJohar Hayat called on Kuwaitis to refrain from visiting China unless truly necessary due to the spread of the coronavirus.|| independent

||The death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak has soared to 1,600, with most recorded deaths in China.|| independent

||New Hampshire public health officials are asking all travelers who have arrived in the state from China in the last 14 days to stay home and watch for symptoms of the coronavirus.|| independent

||China’s death toll from the new virus rose to 259 on Saturday.|| independent

.||||The United States declared a public health emergency on Friday and President Donald Trump signed an order barring entry to foreign nationals who visited China within the last 14 days||.independent

||The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said it will work with federal officials to implement the new monitoring program||.independent

Grammatical analysis

Analyzing the two texts

Voice

Both extracts use both passive and active voices in their descriptions and in different instances, to add more description and make the subject more in-depth.

Thematic analysis

Both extracts talk about the same topic or theme, which is about the spread of the Coronavirus and its impacts on Kuwait’s electronic buyers and the precautions that New Hampshire in the US takes to prevent its spread.

Participant types

There are different participant types in both of the extracts. The participant types play various roles, and the most common participant types are the affected, the causal agents, and the different instruments employed, Bourigault (1992).

Choice of lexis

Both texts have used numerous complex and simple vocabularies and other stand-alone complete phrases and words.

Noun groups

Various noun groups have been used in both extracts in their effort to communicate their message more effectively and to also elaborate on the main nouns Pike (1947). Some of the noun groups in extract 1 include; ‘’in shipments from China’’, and ‘’the spread of the coronavirus’’ For extract 2, some noun groups used include; ‘’for symptoms of the coronavirus’’ and ‘’with most recorded deaths in China’’.

Circumstance types

The two extracts have been produced in an almost similar period as far as the main topic of the issuesdiscussed, and the time is concerned. They are produced at a time when the world is grappling with the spread of the killer Coronavirus that shows no signs of slowing.

Tense

The two extracts are written in the past tense, although there are a few phrases and words presented in the future and present tenses. The use of tenses helps the reader to precisely know when the event described occurred.

Use of direct and Indirect speech

In extract 1, part of the extract is given in a direct speech as shown in this example; “There’s no ban on any shipments from China, but due to the delays and the demand by customers, prices have been increasing,” In extract 2, the whole extract is given in an indirect speech. These two speech uses are a way of communicating the message effectively and capturing the reader’s attention.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the two extracts described above have massively used diverse features to grammatically validate their contexts. The use of passive and active voices, for instance, adds more description to the content. Similarly, the choice of lexis in both extracts is purposefully meant to attract the audience’s attention to read the articles. Besides, it highlights the severity of the coronavirus and its effects on the participants described. Therefore, the choice of these features in the articles is one of the ultimate tools of attracting the reader’s attention to the event. It is also an ideal way of helping us appreciate the TMA through studying the features present in both articles.

Reference List

Bourigault, D., 1992, August. Surface grammatical analysis for the extraction of terminological noun phrases. In Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics-Volume 3 (pp. 977-981).Association for Computational Linguistics.

Pike, K.L., 1947. Grammatical prerequisites to phonemic analysis. Word, 3(3), pp.155-172.