Discourse analysis, since its emergence, has gone through various changes and modifications, especially in the trend coming to prominence as critical discourse analysis. This always manifested impact of brilliant ideas by great intellectuals from different disciplines such philosophy, sociology, psychology, social theory. Max Weber is one towering figures history sociology whose method conducti...

Critical Discourse Analysis uncovers the relationship between discourse, ideology, and power. This study investigated and analyzed contents, social relations, and subject positions in conversations of four popular advanced ELT textbooks. The findings indicated that for contents, giving/asking for information and interaction were outstandingly significant. Regarding social relations, friend was ...