Acknowledgements
First and foremost, I am greatly acknowledged to the School of International Exchange of the Shanghai University and the Shanghai Government Scholarship Authority for their support to undertake my doctoral degree in 2015. Furthermore, I am indebted to Tang Qingye, Supervisor and Professor of discourse analysis at the School of Foreign Languages for her lectures (November 2015-March 2016). Finally, I am grateful to the journalists of the BSS in Dhaka for their cooperation to collect data on this topic.