The article focuses on the problem of applying discourse-analysis in linguodidactic perspective for developing discourse competence of translators and interpreters in the sphere of professional communication. The author describes techniques of developing students' skills in discourse analysis to contribute to their ability of adequate rendering the content of the source text by means of the target language. Analysis is aimed at revealing pragmalinguistic characteristics of the professional discourse: specifying the status roles of discourse participants, highlighting the main message of the text key concepts, characterizing communicative strategies, identifying discourse formulae and discourse markers that contribute to the text coherence.