| The news as a social and political production plays an important role in the formation of people's idea and manner. Critical Discourse Analysis as a branch of linguistics has broadly been used in the study of the language, power, ideology and the relationship among them in present day. Therefore it gets more and more attention of linguists and scholars in other fields. Most previous studies focused on public discourse, legal discourse analysis and etc, compared with previous studies, the studies of political news discourse can reflect the national ideologies of the ruling class and the relationship between power and language more obviously. Therefore this thesis makes a contrastive study of political discourse based on critical analysis theories.Guided by Fairclough's three-dimensional framework and Halliaday's functional grammar, this thesis analyzes the different ideologies underlying international political news as specific sub-genre on the news discourse of China and America. In descriptive stage, compared with the language features of transitivity, modality and theme choices of news reports, it mainly finds intrinsic ideologies underlying political news discourse of China and America. In the interpretation and explanation stages, the writer also interprets the differences of news reports of China and America more specifically through analyzing the text from direct and indirect speech factors. At last the writer makes more detailed analysis about their impact on different readers from news text, news sources, and social background and other cognitive linguistics aspects. At the same time, in order to compensate for the weakness of critical discourse analysis, the approach of the Critical metaphor analysis is also applied in thesis since although some scholars has studied political discourse from the perspective of metaphors, rare attention has been paid to the contrastive study of conceptual metaphors in politics. In addition, the writer discusses some basic concepts of cognitive theories and linguistics to explain text from the views of the reporters and the readers. All of these innovative theoretical and analytical methods have enabled the Fairclough's theoretical framework more perfectly. During the process of studies, this thesis collects 40 pieces of news discourse on the Korean nuclear issue to ensure the effectiveness and credibility of the research. This 40 political news reports are selected from six worldwide circulation and wide readership major newspapers such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, People's Daily, Guangming Daily and the Global Times.Based on the contrastive study of political news discourse, the findings are as following: firstly, it finds that language not only reflects society, but also constructs social relations. And language can reflect the different ideologies underlying political discourse so as to influence the people's views and opinions. Secondly, the writer finds that the approach, which is composed by critical discourse analysis as a main method and critical metaphor analysis as a supplemented method, is feasible. Another practical significance of this thesis is that it attempts to provide readers with a different perspective of analysis language so as to train reader's language conscious and to foster the culture awareness of the public criticism. At the same time, through contrastive analysis to the news reports, the writer hopes that teachers should train criticism awareness of students in the process of news reading and offer some reading strategies commonly used in language newspapers for improving students'critical reading skills and enhancing their awareness of anti-control news media.
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