Critical Stylistics and its Relationship with CDA...

        Critical Stylistics (CS) has a vast description and is associated with a number of approaches in the field of linguistics. This accounts for its description with the adjective 'critical.' the essence is to situate CS within the framework of an eclectic approach that aims at uncovering the features of interactions, basically from the purviews of stylistics and linguistics. in essence, every form of interaction is mutually inclusive of style and linguistic resources, on the one hand, and that the linguistic features the preserve of style (they are co-opted and used based on individuals' styles). in another pedestal, there can be no form of style, in use, that is completely devoid of linguistic features. This is why the levels of linguistic analysis are important levels in the interpretation of or analysis of style and even feature in the levels of analysis of stylistics, for instance, the lexico-semantic, syntactic, pragmatic, and discourse levels of stylistic analysis. 

       CS relates to fields like Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), with proponents like Norman Fairclough, Teun van Dijk, Ruth Wodak, Social semiotics with van Leeuwen as the main proponent, among others. To this end, CS covers various sub-disciplines in semiotics, Semantics, Discourse, Pragmatics and  

Critical Stylistics, developed by Lesley Jeffries. These two approaches share many things in common, most of all, they mutually coagulate theories to show how 'text oganise the world' (Jeffries, 2010)...