Critical Realism

I have read Fairlough and Chouliaraki's 'discourse in later modernity'. It is a theoretical account of where CDA should go now and what element needs to be considered. Some chapters were hard for me to follow. It is incorporating what is being talked about these days as Critical Realism into CDA and the most important element is that discourse is considered to be one moment of social practice rather than the explicit or implicit assumption that it is everything. To me it has always been like that and social practice could never be reduced to discourse only although it is also possible to justify that it is only discourse. I went to Dr. Fleetwood lecture of critical realism too. It was a very good discussion.