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In language studies,critical theory has been explored through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Historically, CDA is a development from “critical linguistics” originally popularized by scholars in the UK and Australia as an attempt to” [react] against the dominant formal (often’asocial’ or ‘uncritical’) paradigms of the 1960s and 1970s”. In a nutsheell, CDA is “a type of [...]

While critical reading from Carter and Nunan’s (2001) perspective is somewhat limited to identify the “ideology underpinning of text”, critical theory encapsulates (almost) the whole notion of critical approaches and denotes: An approach to the study of society (including literature) which questions things which we have come take for granted. In so doing it seeks [...]