Discourse

A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics

// n. A connected series of utterances by one or more speakers.

Certain types of grammatical, lexical and phonological elements can be identified which typically serve to relate one utterance to another in some fashion, but, on the whole, attempts at extending the methods of grammatical analysis to the study of discourse, in the hope of constructing ‘discourse grammars’, have not been outstandingly successful.