Key words: discourse, communication, linguistic, text, style
Summary
The term discourse has many meanings. With all the variety of points of view on its definition, one can highlight their general provisions, namely that discourse is considered as a complex linguistic phenomenon, including such components as text and speech, inextricably linked with extralinguistic factors necessary to generate an utterance. In modern linguistics, one of the controversial issues remains the issue of distinguishing the concepts of “discourse”, “text”, “speech”, “dialogue”, since they only complement each other, but are not completely interchangeable. Moreover, discourse is the maximum linguistic unit that unites all other concepts.
