Chapter 1: Critical discourse studies: history, agenda, theory and methodology -- Chapter 2: The discourse-historical approach (DHA) -- Chapter 3: Critical discourse studies: a sociocognitive approach -- Chapter 4: A dialectical-relational approach to critical discourse analysis in social research -- Chapter 5: Analysing discourses and dispositives -- Chapter 6: Discourse as the recontextualization of social practice- a guide -- Chapter 7: Checks and balances: how corpus linguistics can contribute to CDA -- Chapter 8: Critical analysis of visual and multimodal texts -- Chapter 9: Critical discourse studies and social media