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Critical discourse analysis (CDA), the dominated science of dominated groups, “provides theories and methods for the empirical study of the relations between discourse and social and cultural developments in different social domains”. An underlying assumption of CDA is that discourse is a social practice that can contribute to the production, reproduction and establishment of the unequal power relations. Therefore, it rejects a neutral view towards discourse. Wodak and Meyer (2009) stated that “CDA aims to investigate critically social inequality as it is expressed, constituted, legitimized, and so on, by language use (or in discourse)”. Therefore, it is necessary for critical discourse analysts to adopt an explicit position in favor of dominated groups.