Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Κριτική Σημειωτική Ανάλυση	Ανάλυση Λόγου
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτική Έρευνα
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1957 (Barthes); systematised as critical approach in 1980s–1990s	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
Δημιουργός	Roland Barthes (mythologies/ideology in signs); extended by Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen (social semiotics)	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Τύπος	Qualitative interpretive analysis	Method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Kress, G., & van Leeuwen, T. (2006). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-0415319157	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	CSA, critical semiotics, critical sign analysis, ideological semiotic analysis	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
Συναφείς	5	2
Σύνοψη	Critical semiotic analysis is a qualitative method that examines how signs — words, images, gestures, sounds — construct and naturalise ideological meanings. Drawing on Roland Barthes's distinction between denotation and connotation, and on critical social semiotics developed by Kress and van Leeuwen, the approach moves beyond surface-level description to expose how texts reproduce or challenge power relations, cultural norms, and dominant ideologies.	Discourse analysis is a qualitative research methodology that examines how language, communication, and power shape meaning, identity, and social reality. Developed across linguistics, sociology, and psychology (particularly by Norman Fairclough and Jonathan Potter), discourse analysis goes beyond content to analyze language use as a social practice that constitutes and reflects power relations, ideologies, and social structures.