Аннотация:Discourse is a complex functional essence implying a multiaspectanalysis for the purposes of interpreter training in high schools. It includes a varietyof aspects that are indispensable for achieving excellent understanding of thespeaker’s intention and its further rendering by an interpreter during forums andconferences. The old-school analysis is focused mainly on the aspects that werethoroughly explored by the world linguistics, including semantics, syntacticanalysis, lexical-phraseological analysis, analysis in terms of functional perspective,and so on. The 21stcentury gave rise to a scope of other communicatively validapproaches in the study of language as a tool of interpersonal communication.Intercultural studies are unthinkable without a thorough linguistic basis and also,beyond that, cultural and anthropological investigations, and — very recently —phenomenological studies, that imply the research of speech perception in the firstperson perspective, which includes the analysis of such notions as ‘linguisticpersonality’, ‘individual worldview’, emotional and intellectual experience. Withoutthis research, the proper understanding of discourse in the modern context cannot bereached and discourse will hardly be rendered adequately in another languagewithout these new considerations