Critical Discourse Analysis Revisited

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a rapidly developing area of language study. It considers discourse as a social practice and focus on the relation between language and power. CDA emphasis on language as it is used by real people with real intentions. Based on this approach members of the society and their speech is a reflection of a set of relational, and expressive values. In such a context linguistic production and social variables are linked together. The purpose of this investigation is to shed light on CDA specially Fairclough and Farahzad’s outlooks in this regard. The study has some implications specially for EFL students in translation education. CDA can be used as a powerful device for analyzing the novel text to come up with the intended ideologies. Besides, it may be helpful in socio-cultural studies for discovering how attitudes and identities can lead to sociolinguistic variations