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The aim of this paper is to see what Critical Discourse Analysis is. This implies scrutinising its origins, what it has meant to the academic world as a whole, how it encapsulates various trends with different theoretical backgrounds and methodological approaches, what are its limitations and its new developments. A simple practical example will show its potential.

Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis, Foucault, Habermas, Systemic Functional Grammar, Linguistic Criticism, cognition, corpus linguistics.