THE CONCEPT OF DISCOURSE, ITS INTONATION AND FUNCTIONS IN A NEW PARADIGM IN LINGUISTICS

Abstract The article deals with the concept of discourse from a new paradigm point of view in linguistics. It considers discourse as a unit of language which is meant to be longer and larger than a sentence. The article also informs about some origin of the term. It reports that the concept of "discourse", which entered linguistic circulation in the 1950s. This concept, which consists of several utterances and has a single content from a structural point of view, later led to the emergence of discourse theory, and text-discourse relations became a hot topic of discussion in linguistics. The results of discussions and research on text and discourse issues were reflected in the works of foreign (M. Hallidey, V. Dijk, N. Enkivist, T. Givon), Russian (I.R. Galperin, T.M. Nikolaeva, Z.Y. Turayeva, A. Kibrik, etc.) and Azerbaijani (K.M. Abdullayev, A.A. Abdullayev, A.Y. Mammadov, M.T. Gayibova, F.Y. Veysalli, and M.Y. Mammadov,) linguists. Recent studies show that this concept, initially considered as a social practice, has become a complex concept in modern linguistics with multicomponent, multifaceted and wide-ranging content. Recent studies on discourse research show that this concept in the process of verbal communication is a process that includes a number of components, including social context; specific situation, as well as psychological, sociological, linguistic and cultural phenomena.