discourse Definition
dis·course (dis′kôrs′; also, & for v. usually, dis kôrs′)
noun
- communication of ideas, information, etc., esp. by talking; conversation
- a long and formal treatment of a subject, in speech or writing; lecture; treatise; dissertation
- Archaic ability to reason; rationality
Etymology: ME & OFr discours < L discursus, discourse < pp. of discurrere, to run to and fro < dis-, from, apart + currere, to run: see current
intransitive verb -·coursed′, -·cours′·ing
- to carry on conversation; talk; confer
- to speak or write (on or upon a subject) formally and at some length
transitive verb
Archaic to utter or tell
discourse Related Forms
dis·cours′er noun
discourse Synonyms
discourse
n.
discourse Synonyms
discourse Usage Examples
Preposition: of
globalization: Discourses of globalization have been engaged with throughout our subject areas.
Converse of object
- dominate: Here is an extraordinarily gifted writer working his way inside a language that has dominated public discourse in the Republic for three decades.
- speak: The findings suggest that email strives to mirror spoken discourse in many ways.
- analyze: Overall it is more of an interesting tool to teach analyzing discourse than an analysis of language in comics.
- articulate: Community members articulate hybridity discourses as an alternative to those that assert an assimilative whiteness.
- emerge: It also needs to be analyzed in the context of New Labor's emerging Third Way discourse.
- examine: Rather, we need to examine primarily the extended discourse that occurs in natural settings and open-ended interviews.
Adjective modifier
- dominant: The article begins with a thematic overview of some of the dominant discourses of play.
- hegemonic: In sociological terms they represent a socially constructed body of falsehood and legitimation ideology, and a hegemonic discourse.
- colonial: This word keeps cropping up in colonial discourse, all over the world -- they are rational!
- philosophical: The prosody was significant and owed much to Scottish philosophical discourse.
- scholarly: Most but not all the reviews they publish may well be read as irrelevant for serious scholarly discourse and for professional affairs.
- rational: I would hope we can then return to more rational discourse on the subject.
Modifies a noun
- connective: This paper presents two experiments on the semantic similarity of discourse connectives.
- marker: For example, a discourse marker may signal importance.
- analysis: Critical discourse analysis: The critical study of language.
- coherence: Discourse connectives enable discourse coherence relations to be studies empirically.
- analyst: If anyone ought to be able to characterize and explain such ' warnings of danger ' , discourse analysts should.
Noun used with modifier
- postmodern: Subjectivity is fractured and connects with others, but Haraway does not lose the agency - as often happens in postmodern discourse.
- classroom: Key words: protocol analysis, geography in history, GENIP, classroom discourse, learning geography.
Browse dictionary entries near discourse
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