This section of the article covers various theoretical and methodological aspects of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), including Foucauldian CDA and Dispositive Analysis. It also explores a sociocognitive approach to Critical Discourse Studies, the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA), and the role of corpus linguistics in CDA. Additionally, it provides a guide on how discourse can be seen as the recontextualization of social practice and discusses a dialectical-relational approach to CDA in social research.This section of the article covers various theoretical and methodological aspects of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), including Foucauldian CDA and Dispositive Analysis. It also explores a sociocognitive approach to Critical Discourse Studies, the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA), and the role of corpus linguistics in CDA. Additionally, it provides a guide on how discourse can be seen as the recontextualization of social practice and discusses a dialectical-relational approach to CDA in social research.