I am not searching for "general explanations" about what "critical hermeneutic analysis" and "critical discourse analysis" are (no textbook definitions, I can find those myself). What I do want to know is how they are different (ideally, an expert in both methods could answer this question).
Critical hermeneutic analysis is concerned with the analysis of ideas, treating statements as resources (e.g. Foucault, Derrida). As a result, this kind of analysis is rather abstract even thought the analysis attempts to reveal what is hidden in the text. Simply put, critical hermeneutic analysis lacks social analysis including intertextuality. CDA attempts to explain the opaque relationships between language and social world. Text is the evidence on which the analysis is based. The most fundamental difference between the two is that CDA is a political project in which the analysts take a position, usually of the dominated one.
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