The article analyzes the conditions under which legal discourse affects the development of concepts concerning social order in the context of conflict-prone modern legal policy. The particular nature of this impact is determined by the form of legal discourse, as well as the linguistic and logical dimensions of legal communication. In the first section of the article, the authors provide a series of descriptive definitions for the concepts of legal discourse, social representations and social order. These definitions are accompanied by the thorough exposition of relationships between these concepts. The result of this analysis is a systematization of approaches to understanding these social phenomena. The authors then proceed to identify the main directions of legal discourse’s influence on the formation of ideas about social order, distinguishing between its institutional (legal) and non-institutional forms. The second part of this study explores the linguistic aspect of this influence, focusing on the inherent linguistic functions of legal discourse. These functions include semantic formation, normative and constructive functions, formalization and the function of a legal concept’s “cancellability”. These functions play a crucial role in shaping collective perceptions of social order. The third part argues that the content of legal discourse is determined by the selection of a logical strategy that establishes particular conditions for the development of concepts concerning social order. Thus, classical legal discourse, which is governed by formal logic, aligns with the modernist perspective. Conversely, non-classical and poststructuralist discourses introduce alternative versions of semantic logic: the logic of relations and the logic of differences and equivalences. The theoretical and methodological potential of the logic of equivalences and differences is demonstrated through the analysis of examples from the liberal legal discourse of the 1990-s, also the consequences of this discourse’s influence on the formation of modern worldviews are examined.