Abstract
The present-day linguistics has already turned from formal studies of hierarchy and configuration of certain structural language units to studying the ways the language really functions, i.e. to analyzing the usage of a language in its social application. This current trend allows concentrating on pragmatics and the role of context as main objects of linguistic analyses. That is why discourse (as a basic notion of communicative linguistics) and discourse analysis (the study of socially situated speech) become the starting point of choice which teachers of foreign languages have to make in their search for authentic language material to be used in class. The choice mostly depends not on the types and characteristics of texts as they are, but of discourse modes with specific linguistic features and aims of application.
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