The phrase "as a general discourse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a broad or overarching conversation or topic in a formal or academic context.
Example: "As a general discourse, the implications of climate change affect various sectors, including agriculture, health, and urban planning."
Alternatives: "in general terms" or "as a broad discussion".
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.
The argument soon becomes elevated into a general discourse on religious and philosophical matters.
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.
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.
The story operator strategy can be applied to internal sentences only and thus fails as a general solution to the problem of fictional discourse.[8] The claim that there are nonexistent objects provides a solution that can be applied uniformly both to internal and external sentences of fictional discourse.
I tuned in throughout the day, and while I enjoyed the arguments, a lack of technical people in the general discourse was disappointing.
Precisely because there is no obvious villain and no simple fix, and many complex factors behind success, science as a general topic doesn't play a big role in American political discourse.
There was a need for such terms back then, because their crackpot counterparts held much greater sway in general discourse.
