ABSTRACT
This volume embraces the diversity of combinations between ethnography and critical discourse analysis (CDA) in problem-oriented and context-sensitive research on language, discourse and society. While ethnography and CDA have never formed first-hand associations, the recent years have seen a number of developments that significantly altered both critical–analytic and ethno-graphic research practice. As is argued through the body of research presented in the following pages, those developments have not only changed ethnography and CDA internally but also clearly opened up CDA to fieldwork and ethnography and vice versa, thus pointing to their mutual complementariness in discourse-analytic research in a variety of increasingly complex social, political and economic contexts.
