The phrase "alter the discourse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes in conversation, dialogue, or the way a topic is discussed.
Example: "The new policy aims to alter the discourse surrounding climate change and encourage more constructive conversations."
Alternatives: "change the conversation" or "shift the dialogue".
Women alter the discourse, while transforming unequal relations between the sexes changes men as well, generally for the better.
These socially approved prejudices are reflected in the fact that not even 1percentt of the disabled women get to take part in decision-making and policy-making platform in the public sphere, reducing their potential to effect or alter the discourse in the larger social framework, reflective of their restricted participation.
This ambiguity has, for example, altered the discourse surrounding the issue of collateral damage.
In her forty years as a writer, she published fiction and plays; she wrote about literature, theatre, painting, music, and dance; she altered the discourse of illness and debated the aesthetics and morality of photography.
These are the essays I wish to remark on, as they are the ones that altered the discourse of art at the cusp of the millennium.
They say their piece, their voice is heard, the applause begins to ripple, and they sink smiling back into their chair – safe in the knowledge that they have altered the discourse indefinitely.
Although the Survey USA poll is not the first to show Buck with a double digit lead, it has altered the discourse surrounding a race that was once dismissed as a lock for Norton.
There's definitely precedent for the way real time fact-checking can completely alter the outcome of discourse.
What's being a proposed will profoundly alter the quality of discourse in this country.
Mallarme wrote gorgeously inventive (and impossible to translate) poems, and no one could deny his influence, but you would be hard pressed to prove that he altered the political discourse directly.
The consequences of such distinctions will fundamentally alter the Quality of Care discourse and those with the symbolic capital to make, and enforce, such distinctions will dominate the Quality of Care discourse.
