Critical Discourse Analysis is an important tool used by critical researchers in order to unveil power relationships. As part of a core course (emphasis) of the doctoral program in ELT education, this seminar intends to offer participants a deeper understanding on discourse and on CDA in order to strengthen their research analytical tools.

The seminar is intended to invite participants to explore, analyse, and problematize CDA as a field of research and study. The seminar is divided in two major sections: one devoted to understand and make sense of what is discourse, trying to put a puzzle together from different voices and perspectives. In the second section, attention will be on the particularities of CDA, examples will be read and analysed and specific tools will be studied and used to conduct CDA. We will adopt here Norman Fairclough’s methodology since there is a consensus among various CDA analysts that his, is the more systematic way of doing CDA.