| News has been a highly effective and efficient media device to express information since its emergence in history. As an indispensable and attracting part of newspaper, sports news has been warmly welcomed by sports fans who enjoy entertainment and relaxation. Like political news and social events news, sports news also intends to affect people's cognition and values, and influence arising from which hence attracts attention from critical discourse analysts. The objectivity of news is questioned; the same is for sports news. News reports which look neutral might actually reflect reporters'viewpoints, thus affecting readers'judgments. This paper aims at Critical Discourse Analysis of English sports news from the perspective of reported speeches, and tries to figure out the hidden information or attitudes in the researched discourse.Critical Discourse Analysis has been employed to analyze various discourses recently, especially news, among which, political language has been analyzed most frequently because of its special characteristics that make it easily affected. This thesis selects English sports news as target discourse, and reported speeches as device, tries to prove that in sports news, there is also a complicated world, and many inequalities and malpractices also exist in sports matches. Reporters carefully hide their opinions beneath texts, while through Critical Discourse Analysis we can get a keen look into it and find out their true intentions.The paper picks 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Women's 3000 meter relay as a case for research. Chinese media, South Korean media and Britain media are quoted. The study of reported speeches in the three media revealed clearly that every medium has own intensions to guide readers. Media discourse tries to defend interests of the class and group whose power, ideologies and social relations are most relevant to them.
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