| Critical discourse analysis (CDA for short), which is also called critical linguistics (CL for short), is a current school of linguistic study. CDA broadens the scope of discourse analysis and provides people with a fresh perspective in discourse analysis. It takes in the social-cultural contexts into the discourse analysis, and aims to expose the hidden ideologies in discourse and focuses on the relationship between langue, power and ideology. The CDA theory guides us to a hidden world of discourse, and has become influential in various fields and disciplines.News discourse has been the hot topic in the CDA study since its birth. The author's interest in the CDA theory and news discourse leads to the conducting of the present research, which serves to testify the applicability of the CDA theory to news discourse analysis and to expose the hidden ideologies in political news discourse. Furthermore, the research also aims to improve the critical awareness and the political discriminability of news readers. In this research, critical discourse analysis of six sample political news reports is carried out.The sample political news reports are taken from websites of three influential news media: The New York Times of America, China Daily and Xinhua news angecy of China. And they are reports on the same event-the Urumqi riot which took place on July, 5th, 2009. In the research, contrastive analysis on the six sample political news reports is conducted both qualitatively and quantitatively. Fariclough's three-dimensional model and Halliday's systemic-functional grammar constitute the theoretical framework of this research. And the present research is carried out through three stages: description, interpretation and explanation. At the description stage, language features of sample news reports are investigated from the aspects of lexical classification, transitivity and transformation which are drawn on Halliday's systemic-functional grammar. At the interpretation stage, the production process of sample news reports is illustrated through examining the news resources and the modes of speech reporting. At the explanation stage, findings of the previous stages are further interpreted in terms of social-cultural determinates on political news reports, and the relationship between language and ideology is explained. The research reveals that the political news is a social product and is ideologically tinted.
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