discourse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse https://mamoura.eci.ufmg.br/tematres/vocab/index.php?tema=40 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190539 A generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of communication. Within theoretical linguistics, discourse is understood more narrowly as linguistic information exchange and was one of the major motivations for the framework of dynamic semantics, in which expressions' denotations are equated with their ability to update a discourse context. language entity