This study explores how modality is used in editorials related to Covid-19 from two Pakistani newspapers, establish the author's presence text. A purposive sampling technique was select 50 editorials, and a concordance tool employed categorize data. Modal verbs other linguistic elements with modal meanings were analyzed using interpersonal metafunction, as per Halliday's Systemic Functional Lin...

Since the corona virus disease broke out in Wuhan, Hubei Province China 2019, world has known no peace terms of global health. The COVID-19 pandemic brought a new lifestyle wearing facemask called ‘new normal’. media particularly newspapers have been fighting this through different reports such as straight news, features, opinions and cartoons among others. However, seem not to be doing enough ...

The two editorials written for this issue of EPS reflect seemingly different views on the 50 years since President Kennedy signed into law the Community Mental Health Centers Act in the United States. However, both Lisa Dixon and Michael Hogan point a similar direction for the future for the US and for other countries. Dixon reports on advances in treatment and implementation of evidence-based ...