This paper addresses the different notions of "discourse" that underlie various studies of discourse prosody.‟ It describes the prosodic resources available to speakers to convey different kinds of discourse meaning. In so doing, I distinguish between discourse as structure – information structure and text structure, discourse as language in use – pragmatics and conversation, and discourse as a reflection of society – power and persuasion. In addressing the final aspect of discourse – its ability to manipulate and persuade, I recall the classical origins of rhetoric and revisit the all-important notion of "delivery".