Chapter 1: Critical discourse studies: history, agenda, theory, and methodology / Ruth Wodak & Michael Meyer Chapter --
2: The discourse-historical approach (DHA) / Martin Reisigl and Ruth Wodak --
Chapter 3: Critical discourse studies: a sociocognitive approach / Teun A. van Dijk --
Chapter 4: A dialectical-relational approach to critical discourse analysis in social research / Norman Fairclough --
Chapter 5: Analysing discourses and dispositives: a Foucauldian approach to theory and methodology / Siegfried Jager and Florentine Maier --
Chapter 6: Discourse as the recontextualization of social practice --
a guide / Theo van Leeuwen --
Chapter 7: Checks and balances: how corpus linguistics can contribute to CDA / Gerlinde Mautner --
Chapter 8: Critical analysis of visual and multimodal texts / Dennis Jancsary, Markus A. Hollerer, Renate E. Meyer --
Chapter 9: Critical discourse studies and social media: power, resistance and critique in changing media ecologies / Majid KhosraviNik and Johann W. Unger.

"This is a sophisticated and nuanced introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that covers a range of topics in an accessible, engaging style. With international examples and an interdisciplinary approach, readers gain a rich understanding of the many angles into critical discourse analysis, the fundamentals of how analysis works and examples from written texts, online data and images. This new edition: expands coverage of multimodality adds two new chapters on social media and analysis of online data supports learning with a guided introduction to each chapter includes a new and extended glossary Clearly written, practical and rigorous in its approach, this book is the ideal companion when embarking on research that focuses on discourse and meaning-making."--Publisher's website