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'''Discourse''' is communication that goes back and forth (from the Latin, ''discursus'', "running to and fro"), such as debate or argument.  The term is used in [[semantics]] and [[discourse analysis]].  In [[semantics]], discourses are linguistic units composed of several sentences — in other words, [[conversation]]s, [[Logical argument|arguments]] or [[Speech (public address)|speeches]].   

'''Discourse''' is communication that goes back and forth (from the Latin, ''discursus'', "running to and fro"), such as debate or argument.  The term is used in [[semantics]] and [[discourse analysis]].  In [[semantics]], discourses are linguistic units composed of several sentences — in other words, [[conversation]]s, [[Logical argument|arguments]] or [[Speech (public address)|speeches]].   

There is a social conception of discourse that is often linked with the work of French philosopher [[Michel Foucault]] (1926-1984) and [[Jürgen Habermas]]' ''[[The Theory of Communicative Action]]'' (''Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns''). Each thinker had personal conceptions of discourse which are thought to be incompatible with the other. They remain two important figures in this field; Habermas trying to find the [[transcendence (philosophy)|transcendent]] rules upon which speakers could agree on a groundworks consensus, while Foucault was developing a battle-type of discourse which opposed the classic [[marxist]] definition of [[ideology]] ([[superstructure]]).

There is a social conception of discourse that is often linked with the work of French philosopher [[Michel Foucault]] (1926-1984) and [[Jürgen Habermas]]' ''[[The Theory of Communicative Action]]'' (''Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns''). Each thinker had personal conceptions of discourse which are thought to be incompatible with the other. They remain two important figures in this field; Habermas trying to find the [[transcendence (philosophy)|transcendent]] rules upon which speakers could agree on a groundworks consensus, while Foucault was developing a form of discourse that opposed [[marxist]] definitions of [[ideology]] ([[superstructure]]).

===The social conception of discourse===

===The social conception of discourse===