The phrase "alternative discourse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different ways of communicating or expressing ideas, particularly in academic or critical contexts.
Example: "The conference aimed to explore alternative discourse surrounding climate change and its impact on policy-making."
Alternatives: "different narrative" or "alternative dialogue".
At Leicester School of Management, Professor Martin Parker notes that, though long submerged under the 'there is no alternative' discourse, an undercurrent of resistance to the market managerialism of the past 30 years has always subsisted - and not just in the public sector (where, duly adapted, it has ironically been practised with terrifying thoroughness).
Regenerative sustainability is emerging as an alternative discourse around the transition from a 'mechanistic' to an 'ecological' or living systems worldview.
"[B]y encouraging the dissolution of the bundle of benefits and protections that currently attach to citizenship, proponents of the unbundling vision will also begin to fuel an alternative discourse as well – one that urges the privatization and fragmentation of citizenship, and that implies less collective responsibility for the well being of members"(Shachar 2009, 67).
However, its methods and conclusions are so radically different to those of conventional systems biology that one might almost say it constitutes an alternative discourse on the subject.
First, digital media tools provide new, creative ways for local peacebuilders to foster alternative discourses and challenge prevailing conflict narratives.
Cameron and Frazer conclude that feminists can be critical of "the discourses which inform sexual practice" and imagine alternative discourses, without promoting problematic models of human behavior (Cameron & Frazer 2000, 253).
Roth suggests: Teachers, individually and collectively, might want to think how they can provide opportunities not to convert students to one or the other discourse but of getting to know other ways of dealing with alternative discourses.
So, for example, Wolff-Michael Roth, in "Fundamentalist and Scientific Discourse: Beyond the War Metaphors and Rhetoric," focuses on dealing with the alternative discourses of fundamentalist religion and science when trying to teach evolution to reluctant learners.
Teachers, individually and collectively, might want to think how they can provide opportunities not to convert students to one or the other discourse but of getting to know other ways of dealing with alternative discourses.
(FG 2) In this extract, the participants negotiate their vulnerabilities and question how they can be empowered by engaging in alternative discourses of masculinity and sexuality.
However, alternative discourses were also present, evident through narratives on young men experiencing and performing masculinity in more complex and uncertain ways.
