Persuasive Strategies in Pakistani Public Health Broadcasts: A Systemic Functional Multimodal Analysis

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2025
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Abstract
This study investigates the diverse persuasive strategies in Pakistani COVID-19 public service announcements (PSAs). Adopting a Systemic Functional Multi-modal Analysis framework, it deconstructs three distinct broadcasts from the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), and SAMAA TV. The analysis reveals three "persuasive profiles": The NCOC uses authoritative instruction with high-modality language to establish logical necessity. ISPR uses moral and nationalistic unity, presenting the pandemic as a war to appeal to common values. SAMAA TV uses persuasion by juxtaposition, employing a neutral, fact-based tone to lead audiences to infer a cause-and-effect account. The results show how ideational, interpersonal, and textual decisions construct customized messages that capture distinct institutional objectives. This research offers a detailed, linguistically grounded model for analyzing persuasive discourse in public health crises.
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Authors Muhammad Shafqat Nawaz
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Journal Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review
Year 2025
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10.47205/plhr.2025(9-II)34
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https://ojs.plhr.org.pk/journal/article/view/1220
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