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Critical discourse analysis is an interdisciplinary field which includes various approaches of critical analysis of discourse. While its roots are based on the studies of Critical Linguistics in the late 1970s, it has started to be seen as a 'different and radical theory of the language' with the 1990s. Critical discourse analysis conceptualizes language as a social practice, focuses on the relations between language and power, and examines how social injustice, discrimination, power and hegemony are constructed and justificated in the usage of language. In this paper, the approaches of Norman Fairclough, Teun A. Van Dijk, Ruth Wodak, Ron Scollon and Siegfried Jager are discussed as the main approaches of critical discourse analysis. Various theorists on critical discourse analysis have shared the basic principles of ESA (focusing on social problems, being critical, serving an emancipatory knowledge, interdisciplinary, etc.), but have introduced theoretically and methodologically different approaches. Nevertheless, all of these approaches often feed on each other and contain various theoretical and methodological similarities.

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