Ekanayake, E.M.V.R.S.2014-12-222014-12-222014Annual Research Symposium,Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka; 2014, pp.29http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4834Remarking its naissance on 1920s� discourse analysis has evolved today from its linguistic perspective to a variety of social sciences disciplines. Rather than being imprisoned to a mere textual analysis, discourse analysis reveals the socio-cultural and socio-psychological characteristics of the given communicative event i.e writing, conversation or speech. Modern scholars of critical discourse analysis (CDA) have disclosed that the language, culture and ideology are interrelated.ArticleModern Languages