Communication in the Covid-19 Situations and Discourse of Thai state about Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations

Abstract

This academic article is sourced from Thailand using Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations 2005 in the Covid-19 Situations 25 March 2020-1 August 2021. The data was collected from Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations 2005 series 1-30. The purpose of this is twofold: (1) to investigate the communication in the Covid-19 Situations about Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations 2005 (2) to investigate the discourse of Thai state in Covid-19 Situations about Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations, it was found communication 5 main groups of speech acts : Declarative Speech Acts, Directives Speech Acts, Representatives Speech Acts, Commissive Speech Acts, Expressives Speech Acts. And it was found 5 discourse of Thai state: 1) state power of discourse 2) place dimensions-civic activities state of discourse 3) of discourse 4) public-private working together to tackle Covid-19 of discourse 5) digital social discourse, contemporary problem solving tool.