THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF THE CONCEPT "DISCOURSE" AND ITS MEANING IN TERMS OF METHODS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES
The article studies the issues dealing with various approaches to the analysis of the term «discourse» in the humanities. The detailed characteristics of the discourse, both in the narrow and broad meanings, allows to reveal the concept in terms of methods of teaching foreign languages. Here the discourse is treated as a foreign-language-communication model (a broad meaning) and as a communication unit performed by text (a narrow meaning).