Discourse

Discourse is one of the most frequently used terms from Foucault's work and at the same time, it is one of the most contradictory. Foucault himself defines it in a number of different ways throughout his work and, in this chapter, writer will express the way he uses the term in The Archeology of Knowledge (1972) and in 'The order of Discourse'(1981). He says in 'The Archeology of Knowledge' that he has used 'discourse' to refer to 'The general domain of all statements' sometimes as a regulated practice that accounts for a number of statements, sometimes as an indivizual group of statements'.