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• TITLE: A Study on Mystification Strategies of Shanghai Epidemic Reports in British and American Mainstream Newspapers

  AUTHORS: Junfang Mu, Zihan Chen, Jie Bai, Jie Zhu

  KEYWORDS: Critical Discourse Analysis, Mystification Strategies, Mainstream Newspaper, Shanghai Epidemic

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Access Library Journal, Vol.10 No.6, June 30, 2023

  ABSTRACT: Based on the critical discourse analysis, this paper analyzes the keywords and discourse of the report text from the perspective of permutation strategy, ambiguity strategy and approaching strategy, and explores the Mystification strategies used in the Shanghai epidemic reported by the British and American mainstream newspapers as well as their representation in the text, in order to help the text-consumers view Western reports rationally and objectively. Through a corpus-based study, it is found that the Shanghai epidemic reports in British and American mainstream newspapers use different mystification strategies at the lexical and textual levels to guide the text-consumers’ cognitive tendency, blur the real situation of the event and mystify the text-consumers.