The notion of discourse in humanities and social sciences, as well as in linguistics, is, among all else, due to necessity, must to include a communication element in its description of the functioning of language. This prompted the beginning of involving a description of statements and texts from general communication perspective in research. When it comes to the discourse of neo-liberalism, more often than not, we come across the use of the term with its popular meaning in informal use by the media and some social sciences, in which case, this discourse refers not only to those ways of speaking, as adopted by neoliberal thinkers or politicians, but also to the concepts and ideas they propagate, and studies of neoliberal discourse, in general, may not include and are not concerned with, the use of language.

The view for common determinants of both types of descriptions – theoretical and empirical – has begun to dominate linguistics at a relatively late date. The traditional differentiation between system (langue, competence) and use (parole, performance) represents dynamic network connections between authentic language information and data (computer databases and information corps), and their conditionality in the communication processes – the discourse. “Interdisciplinarity,” the empirical orientation and social conditionality of language use, reinforces the processing of discourse interactive character as a set of instructions or strategies used in the communication game in order to achieve, primarily, understanding.

Ambiguity of the term discourse, also posed difficulties in the methodology of linguistic description which arises mainly from the absence of an appropriate method according to which, texts, thanks to special additional indicators, may prescribe or incorporate not only grammatical and semantic information but also cultural, political, and societal tradition. Within this framework, besides the structural methods (linguistic discourse analysis), cognitive discipline and related disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, logic, semiotics (critical discourse analysis), a special place belongs to corpus linguistics as a discipline that can greatly modify the methodology for text analysis and discourse as the basis of linguistic data that integrate these, so far, divided research fields.