As with any approach, there are things about which the dialectical relational approach has little to say. We should distinguish however between issues and problems it has not got around to because others seemed more pressing or more interesting or simply because life is short, and issues and problems which fall outside its remit and are thus not issues and problems for it (though they may be for other approaches). An example of the former is relative emphasis on the workings of power rather than the workings of reception, reaction and resistance to power – I stress relative because the latter have not been entirely neglected (see, for instance, Fairclough, 2006). Critics might reasonably say that I have ‘done it again’ in this chapter, spending more time on depoliticization than politicization. This has been a bias in my work, perhaps partly because of the sort of left-wing politics I was involved with in the 1970s, but it is not in my opinion a limitation of the approach as such. An example of the latter is a lack of attention to psycho logical and cognitive matters. I would agree that cognitively oriented research on discourse can complement the dialectical-relational approach, but I would not accept that an absence of attention to cognitive issues is a ‘blindspot’ in the approach, still less that it in some sense invalidates the approach.