Abstract: Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is often asserted to lack explicitness, objectivity, reliability and verifiability, thus lacking scientificity. By clarifying and reviewing some major ideas and claims of CDA, the present paper tries to argue that, if we follow some basic scientific principles and explicit operational procedures, obtain adequate linguistic data and make systematic use of multidisciplinary achievements and evidence, we can have our conclusions cross-examined to make them verifiable, thus endowing them with truth value. In this way, we can tremendously enhance the objectivity and scientificity of CDA.