This study demonstrates how proximization theory, a novel cognitive-pragmatic model of crisis and danger construction, may be employed in Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) as postulant methodological tool to address three sample discourses on health, environs, and modern technology, and for the purpose of further use. The theory explains well the main characteristics of public discourses within the CDS scope, particularly the legitimization patterns in policy communication. The analysis of the three discourses shows a steady dependency of policy legitimization on discursively erected frameworks of anxiety and danger, both material and ideological. Evenly favorable are the expectations for proximization theory itself to pursue to draw empirically from the extending CDS territory. The most prolific seem those of CDS domains whose discourses compel a direct and increscent conflict between symbolically defined “home” and “external” entities, thus justifying pressing deterrent actions against the latter.