Practices for interpreting the models of discourse interactions (transdiscursivity) as revealed through discursive strategies

The practices of interpreting the concept of discourse can hardly be reduced to some general definitions. Based on the discursive analysis, it is quite pointless to try to finally find a single unified definition of discourse that would be shared by all linguists. Thus, the approach to understanding this term in the field of humanities leads to an analogy with Wittgenstein's concept of family resemblance since each of the interpretations of discourse is related to other concepts which leads to the construction of a complex network. It seems possible to reduce all these interpretations to a “common denominator”, as well as to assert the hypothesis that all these concept-notions underlie an essential and significant area of human activity. Thus, one of the tasks of the article is to examine the sphere of human practices designated by the definition of discourse which represent a very important phenomenon in human communicative activity. Another task is to describe the nature of interaction and interpenetration of discourses in the process of communicative practices. The article does not claim to have the only correct interpretation concerning the concept of discourse and the principles involving interpenetration of its types; the research and academic goals presented are rather an attempt to include several new cells in the already existing conceptual networks which are located in the linguo-philosophical space.

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