You can read my papers on the relevant topics to understand the basic structures in CDA and Stylistic Analysis.

Read "Sociocultural Knowledge in Conversational Inference" by John J. Gumperz, and "Opening up Closings" by Schegloff and Sacks in The Discourse Reader [Jaworski and Coupland (eds)]. This work has other relevant material as well.

I think the question needs to be paraphrased.

While both stylistics and discourse analysis are concerned with language, they approach it from different perspectives and follow different steps. Here's a simplified breakdown:

🔹 Stylistics focuses on how language style creates meaning, often analyzing literary texts.

Steps in Stylistics:

1. Select the text (literary or non-literary)

2. Identify stylistic features (e.g., figurative language, sentence structure, tone, etc.)

3. Analyze how these features contribute to meaning, emotion, or narrative style

4. Relate stylistic patterns to the author's intent or effect on the reader

🔹 Discourse Analysis focuses on how language is used in real-world contexts to construct meaning, identities, power relations, etc.

Steps in Discourse Analysis:

1. Define the discourse context (e.g., political, media, social media, etc.)

2. Collect authentic data (spoken or written)

3. Analyze linguistic choices (e.g., pronouns, modality, agency, etc.)

4. Explore how language constructs ideologies, social roles, or relationships

In research, you can even combine both approaches—for example, using stylistic tools to support discourse-level insights in literary or media texts.

Although, I, to a certain degree, agree with the last feedback of Mr. Ahmad, I believe that Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) offers a much more comprehensive and productive approach to DA.

Stylistics and Discourse Analysis share a concern with language use, but they differ in their focus and methodological steps.

In Stylistics, the procedure is usually text-oriented. Researchers:

1. Select the text or corpus.

2. Contextualize it historically or culturally.

3. Conduct a close linguistic analysis (phonology, lexis, grammar, semantics, pragmatics).

4. Identify stylistic patterns such as foregrounding, deviation, or repetition.

5. Interpret how these choices shape meaning, theme, or aesthetic effect.

In Discourse Analysis, the procedure is more context-oriented. Researchers:

1. Define the research question.

2. Collect authentic data (spoken, written, multimodal).

3. Analyze the situational and socio-cultural context.

4. Examine discourse structures (cohesion, coherence, speech acts, pronouns, modality, turn-taking).

5. Interpret how discourse constructs identity, power, or ideology.

6. In Critical Discourse Analysis, expose hidden ideologies and power relations.

In short, Stylistics proceeds from text → linguistic features → interpretation → aesthetic meaning, while Discourse Analysis proceeds from context → discourse practices → linguistic choices → social meaning/ideology.