Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical
Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the
development of this popular field. The book is divided into seven sections covering the
following themes: language in relation to ideology and powerdiscourse in processes of
social and cultural change dialectics of discourse, dialectical relations between discourse
and other moments of social lifemethodology of critical discourse analysis research analysis …

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) brings the critical tradition of social analysis into language
studies and contributes to critical social analysis a particular focus on discourse and on
relations between discourse and other social elements (power relations, ideologies,
institutions, social identities, and so forth). Critical social analysis can be understood as
normative and explanatory critique. It is normative critique in that does not simply describe
existing realities but also evaluates them, assesses the extent to which they match up to …