The phrase "a general discourse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a broad discussion or conversation about a particular topic or subject matter.
Example: "The conference aimed to foster a general discourse on climate change and its global impact."
Alternatives: "a broad discussion" or "an overarching conversation".
The argument soon becomes elevated into a general discourse on religious and philosophical matters.
In his Rose Garden speech Obama did use the phrase "acts of terror", but he did so in the plural and within a general discourse on the threats facing the US rather than as a specific reference to Benghazi.
In this article I suggest that this visibility/invisibility paradox (Mirza 2009) can be interpreted not only as a reflection of the number of racialised researchers in Swedish higher education, but also as a general discourse of colour-blindness and Swedish white privilege.
The conflicts over "fracking" are sometimes related to a general discourse on the increased demand for public participation and transparency in political and economic issues.
Our suggested catch-phrase of "Mode 3", therefore, integrates several considerations that want to relate systems theory, knowledge, and innovation more directly to each other, and this should be understood as a contribution to a dynamically evolving general discourse on the topics of knowledge and innovation.
Biodiversity has not only become one of the basic environmental policy objectives in both international and national political arenas but also an elementary part of the general discourse of global environmental change.
I tuned in throughout the day, and while I enjoyed the arguments, a lack of technical people in the general discourse was disappointing.
Debate is essential, but it should focus on issues, not on resolutions designed to disenfranchise a significant group of academics from the general discourse.
We have therefore considered the risk of emphasizing decontextualized comments in our analysis by interpreting the comments as expressions of a general gender discourse rather than linking them to specific physicians.
"There's a perception in the public, and in the general discourse about abortion, that abortion is somehow emotionally harmful for women," Study researcher Dr. Corinne Rocca, an epidemiologist, told The Huffington Post.
Second, there was an infiltration of the expanding global language about stakeholder participation and a transfer of 'health rights' terminology into Peru's general discourse on health policy.
