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Abstract Abstract: By introducing and reviewing the theories and applications of Evolutionary Psychological based Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this paper maintains that the rationale of the integration between Evolutionary Psychology (EP) and CDA is modularity and coercion. Drawing on Hart’s study (2010) and the EP theory, the paper analyzes the discourse strategies of news discourses, including referential, predication, proximisation and legitimizing strategies. It points out that the theme of the integration of EP and CDA is to explore the relation between discourse strategies and modularity, and that their interaction is realized by activation and operation. In other words, we can activate or operate moduals by using discourse strategies. Cheater-Dection and Emotion moduals, for instance can be activated by predication strategy, and Logico-Rhetorical module can be operated by legitimizing strategy.
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