Taken together, these three steps indicate an important feature of this version of
CDA: textual analysis is only a part of semiotic analysis (discourse analysis), and the former must be adequately framed within the latter. The aim is to develop a specifically semiotic ‘point of entry’ into objects of research which are constituted in a transdisciplinary way, through dialogue between diferenttheories and disciplines. The analysis of texts can effectively contribute to this only in so far as it is located within a wider analysis of the object of research in terms of dialectical relations between semiotic and other elements which comprehend relations between the level of social practices and level of events (and between orders of discourse and texts).