How Persuasivethe Presidential Speeches are During theCovid-19 Crisis: A Discourse Analysis Study of Some Selected Presidential Speeches

Since its outbreak in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China, at the end of 2019, covid-19 poses exceptional challenges on everybody’s life including the presidents. The presidential speeches were similar in essence, which is introducing the reality of the severity of this unprecedented crisis, but these speeches are different in how persuasive they are. Consequently, some of these speeches appeared persuasive, while others revealed vacillations in the reassurance of peoples. Therefore, two political speeches are chosen arbitrarily to be investigated in the study which is a discourse analysis one. Among the various strategies adopted by the President of Ukraine: Zelensky and the Indian Prime minister: Modi’s breaking the conversational maximswill be concentrated on which requires applying Grice’s model. The obtained results from the quantitative and qualitative analysis revealed the seriousness of the speeches of Covid-19 and their distinction from what is traditionally familiar.