A Critical Discourse Analysis of Covid-19 in Iranian and American Newspapers

The policies and ideologies of countries are reflected in the propagated media that country, newspapers no exception. Covid-19 has affected lives people all around world. present study investigated ideological differences reporting news related to light Van Dijk’s square framework. To do so, a representative sample 56 articles was chosen over period one year (from January 2020 end 2021) from Iranian American newspaper, Tehran Times New York Times. Overall, 2,977 clauses were analysed both qualitatively, find out reason occurrence, quantitatively, determine frequency occurrence for each micro-strategy. Evidentiality, Hyperbole, Metaphor, National Self-Glorification, Negative Lexicalisation, Number Game most frequent micro-strategies. Such high frequencies strategies can make effective discursive apparatus readers believe what claim is true. salient implication this would be raising readers’ academics’ awareness need view critically avoid negative ramifications propagandas. In same vein, cognizant micro-strategies they consciously or sub-consciously employ since certain used manipulate minds help agencies feed their political agendas. Keywords Covid-19; Critical Discourse Analysis; Ideological Micro-strategies; Newspapers; Dijk