Critical discourse analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis, or CDA is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of text and talk, which views "language as a form of social practice" (Fairclough 1989: 20) and attempts "to unpack the ideological underpinnings of discourse that have become so naturalized over time that we begin to treat them as common, acceptable and natural features of discourse" (Teo 2000).
linguistic theory, the approach draws from social theory--and contributions from Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Jürgen Habermas, and Michel Foucault--in order to examine ideologies and power relations involved in discourse. Norman Fairclough, Paul Chilton, Teun van Dijk, Christina Shaffner, Ruth Wodak, Peter Teo, Roger Fowler, Gunther Kress, and
