Critical discourse analysis cda has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved it is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge the discourses of our day it is time for. A new agenda in critical discourse analysis theory methodology and interdisciplinarity discourse approaches to politics society and culture band 13 amazonde . A new agenda in critical discourse analysis theory methodology and interdisciplinarity discourse approaches to politics soceity and culture band 13 amazonde . Critical approaches to the use of language have of course long existed in human civilisations however in the contemporary global academy the roots of what is now known as cda can be said to go back to the critical linguistics of the 1970s it. A new agenda in critical discourse analysis theory methodology and interdisciplinarity edited by ruth wodak lancaster university paul chilton university of east anglia john benjamins publishing company amsterdam philadelphia table of contents acknowledgements ix preface reflecting on cda xi ruth wodak i interdisciplinarity and cda chapter 1 three models of interdisciplinarity 3 theo