TY - THES AU - Martínez Jiménez, María A3 - Maíz Arévalo, Carmen PY - 2020 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/9267 AB - Since Austin (1962) proposed his Speech Act Theory, the actions carried out by speakers in their utterances have been a central unit of study in the field of Pragmatics. One century later, humanity is facing a global pandemic and those in power... LA - eng KW - Speech act KW - Illocution KW - Illocutionary act KW - Agency KW - Representation of agency KW - Social actor KW - Coronavirus. TI - The pragmatics of coronavirus: an analysis of presidential speech acts and the representation of the force M3 - master thesis ER -