Webology (ISSN: 1735-188X) Volume 18, Number 4, 2021 929 http://www.webology.org Critical Discourse Analysis Of Newspapers’ Articles: CPEC In The Lens Of Lexicalization Ms. Afsheen Ekhteyar 1 , Dr. Naureen Aleem 2 , Hatesh Kumar 3 , Waqar Ali 4 , Dr. Taha Shabbir 5 1 Assistant Professor National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Karachi. 2 Assistant Professor, Media & Communication Studies, Sindh Maderssatul Islam University Karachi. 3 Lecturer in English, Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Karachi. 4 Assistant Manager SUPARCO, Karachi. 5 Assistant Professor Media & Communication Studies, Federal Urdu University, Karachi. ABSTRACT CPEC, the phenomenon economically significant in Pakistan has been studied theoretically through critical discourse analysis of ideology in multiple studies however; the studies on how such ideologies are lexically accounted are observed scanty in literature. Given the fact that ideologies are very crucial in dealing with the subject like CPEC in print media in Pakistan, this study investigates the ways the news gets covered in the Pakistani leading English /Urdu newspapers: The News and Daily Dawn/ Daily Jang and The Express expressing the ideological pursuits of economical phenomenon. The main objective of the study is to investigate the lexical items used in English newspapers in Pakistan dealing the economical news like CPEC. This paper adopts the theoretical model by Fairclough that is equivalent to Halliday’s theoretical model on ‘lexicalisation’. The findings indicate that same news subject has been depicted with different tone affecting the intensity of the news. The study is distinctive in its nature for its originality as it is interdisciplinary study and its findings are in line with the existing literature on media conflict. Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis; CPEC, Halliday Model; Lexicalization 1. Introduction