On the evolution of the concept of minimum interactive discourse in the context of the current linguistic studies

The article deals with revealing the evolution of the concept of discourse and minimum interactive discourse in particular, beginning with the first mentioning of the term «discourse analysis» in the middle of the last century up to discovering a new verbal and cogitative unit of the phase language space that is minimum interactive discourse, which is considered to be a precondition for a special discourse way of the formation of relationship between man and reality.