Critical discourse analysis

Critical discourse analysis - concept in critical theory. Article “Critical discourse analysis” in English Wikipedia has 37.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 25 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.98 points.

This article has the best quality in Indonesian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Critical discourse analysis”, its content was written by 127 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 311 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 115 times in English Wikipedia and cited 305 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19708 in January 2004
• Global: #33393 in June 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #97214 in April 2015
• Global: #93945 in April 2015

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Indonesian (id) Analisis wacana kritis		38.0765
2	English (en) Critical discourse analysis		37.5993
3	Korean (ko) 비판적 담론 분석		35.0697
4	Estonian (et) Kriitiline diskursusanalüüs		31.1659
5	Swedish (sv) Kritisk diskursanalys		29.9447
6	Czech (cs) Kritická diskurzivní analýza		28.1381
7	Ukrainian (uk) Критичний дискурс-аналіз		26.5987
8	Polish (pl) Krytyczna analiza dyskursu		24.327
9	Greek (el) Κριτική ανάλυση λόγου		22.1242
10	German (de) Kritische Diskursanalyse		21.3859

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Critical discourse analysis" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Critical discourse analysis		1 455 446
2	Spanish (es) Análisis crítico del discurso		470 151
3	Swedish (sv) Kritisk diskursanalys		124 153
4	German (de) Kritische Diskursanalyse		117 852
5	Polish (pl) Krytyczna analiza dyskursu		97 497
6	Portuguese (pt) Análise crítica do discurso		94 553
7	Indonesian (id) Analisis wacana kritis		93 935
8	Russian (ru) Критический дискурс-анализ		59 263
9	Japanese (ja) 批判的言説分析		56 697
10	Persian (fa) تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی		45 683

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Critical discourse analysis" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Critical discourse analysis		3 229
2	German (de) Kritische Diskursanalyse		321
3	Chinese (zh) 批判性话语分析		224
4	Swedish (sv) Kritisk diskursanalys		215
5	Polish (pl) Krytyczna analiza dyskursu		203
6	Japanese (ja) 批判的言説分析		199
7	Portuguese (pt) Análise crítica do discurso		167
8	Russian (ru) Критический дискурс-анализ		167
9	Persian (fa) تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی		126
10	Spanish (es) Análisis crítico del discurso		116

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Critical discourse analysis" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Critical discourse analysis		127
2	Spanish (es) Análisis crítico del discurso		36
3	Polish (pl) Krytyczna analiza dyskursu		19
4	German (de) Kritische Diskursanalyse		18
5	Russian (ru) Критический дискурс-анализ		18
6	Swedish (sv) Kritisk diskursanalys		16
7	Portuguese (pt) Análise crítica do discurso		14
8	Persian (fa) تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی		12
9	Czech (cs) Kritická diskurzivní analýza		11
10	Indonesian (id) Analisis wacana kritis		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Critical discourse analysis" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Persian (fa) تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی		1
2	Swedish (sv) Kritisk diskursanalys		1
3	Ukrainian (uk) Критичний дискурс-аналіз		1
4	Arabic (ar) تحليل الخطاب بالنقد		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Критически дискурсивен анализ		0
6	Czech (cs) Kritická diskurzivní analýza		0
7	German (de) Kritische Diskursanalyse		0
8	Greek (el) Κριτική ανάλυση λόγου		0
9	English (en) Critical discourse analysis		0
10	Spanish (es) Análisis crítico del discurso		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Critical discourse analysis" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Critical discourse analysis		115
2	Persian (fa) تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی		41
3	Arabic (ar) تحليل الخطاب بالنقد		33
4	Portuguese (pt) Análise crítica do discurso		17
5	German (de) Kritische Diskursanalyse		16
6	Spanish (es) Análisis crítico del discurso		13
7	Indonesian (id) Analisis wacana kritis		11
8	Polish (pl) Krytyczna analiza dyskursu		11
9	Estonian (et) Kriitiline diskursusanalüüs		7
10	Chinese (zh) 批判性话语分析		7

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تحليل الخطاب بالنقد
bg	Bulgarian Критически дискурсивен анализ
cs	Czech Kritická diskurzivní analýza
de	German Kritische Diskursanalyse
el	Greek Κριτική ανάλυση λόγου
en	English Critical discourse analysis
es	Spanish Análisis crítico del discurso
et	Estonian Kriitiline diskursusanalüüs
fa	Persian تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی
id	Indonesian Analisis wacana kritis
ja	Japanese 批判的言説分析
ko	Korean 비판적 담론 분석
pl	Polish Krytyczna analiza dyskursu
pt	Portuguese Análise crítica do discurso
ru	Russian Критический дискурс-анализ
sv	Swedish Kritisk diskursanalys
uk	Ukrainian Критичний дискурс-аналіз
zh	Chinese 批判性话语分析

Best Rank

English: #97214 04.2015

Global: #93945 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #19708 01.2004

Global: #33393 06.2005

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