I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
direct discourse
indirect discourse
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
conversational
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There are two points worth noting about this fragment of conversational discourse .
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There are informal ways of expressing the topic, even in conversational discourse .
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So, it is a myth that conversational discourse is inevitably symmetrical.
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How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse?
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Our argument for the importance of considering individual speaker's topics in conversational discourse would consequently be weaker.
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We shall examine an extract from conversational discourse containing a longish paratone which illustrates the features just described.
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There is an assumption that conversational discourse is symmetrical and logical.
critical
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What we have is a critical discourse , constituting the core of the student's studies.
different
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Clearly they are symptomatic of investments in different kinds of discourse .
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Why should not the validity of different traditions of discourse simply be allowed to coexist?
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Henriques etal.'s binary model of power and its absence is flexible enough to apply to many different kinds of discourses .
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Many textbooks do show awareness of the need to deal with different discourse types, but few confront the issue of identification.
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He provides a careful analysis of the relationship between the functional and structural characteristics of different types of discourse .
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It also presupposes the possibility of meaningful references to different topics of discourse .
dominant
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In dominant discourses of gender, activity tends to be associated with masculinity, and passivity with femininity.
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Some western feminists, too, are concerned about psychological method's strong affiliations to dominant discourses of gender.
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This articulation draws on dominant discourses of children which position them in constant relationship to both their and society's futures.
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But here it reveals a concept of women very close to that found in dominant discourses of femininity.
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Contradictory discourses are contained and framed by a dominant discourse.
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He suggests that in all cases contradictory discourses are neutralised by the dominant , privileged discourse.
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This interest in lesbianism preserves the emphasis dominant discourses of femininity place on women's sexuality.
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Do men lose as well as gain from dominant discourses of gender?
everyday
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The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
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In everyday economic discourse , nothing is more frequently taken as an index of economic growth than the volume of capital formation.
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Its triumph in everyday discourse is the demand for rational or empirical justification.
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Lawyer B, however, tried to resolve the issue in the terms of the presenting, everyday , discourse .
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The passage from esoteric scientific theory into everyday discourse describes the prototype of objectification.
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Client purchasers require that this be translated back into everyday discourse .
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In the first case he offered a solution in the terms of everyday discourse .
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Clients bring many issues to the solicitor, expressed and constituted in terms of a variety of everyday discourses .
other
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It is as if literature were perhaps necessarily less susceptible to the temptations of logocentrism than other forms of discourse .
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Feminist psychologists tend not to deal with these other discourses , except by adopting numerical strategies.
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Psychology, like other discourses , associates subjectivity with femininity, and objectivity with masculinity.
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My account of deixis is such that the methodology could be applied to other kinds of discourse , both literary and non-literary.
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Sermons on the Card and other discourses by Hugh Latimer.
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The boundary between conversation and other discourse types is a fuzzy one, and there are many intermediate cases.
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The context of anthropology is that of a discourse that attempts to generalize and encompass other discourses, such as those of myth-telling.
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How effective do you consider this means of presentation and how widely could it be applied to other discourse types?
particular
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Any consideration of topic involves asking why the speaker said what he said in a particular discourse situation.
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This leaves the possibility open of finding new insights into deixis perse as well as into its behaviour within a particular discourse .
political
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The political discourse instead centered on when and whether the two Republicans chasing Dole might withdraw.
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Chapter 2 attempts to demonstrate the specific appeal of formal labourism by examining the construction of political discourses around the working class.
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First, there is the general point that political discourse must be understood in its argumentative context.
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This whole extravaganza is demeaning, debasing and deeply damaging to what should be serious political discourse , the protesters complain.
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Their words infuse the air Britain breathes, serving just three press magnates whose pernicious influence corrodes all political discourse .
psychological
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Such accounts provide detailed and wide-ranging analyses of the psychological and related discourses around these objects.
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Woman-centred psychology, like egalitarian feminist psychology, needs to address theory if it is really to change psychological discourses of gender.
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Every psychologist is an object of psychological discourse , as well as an agent of it.
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I have already discussed the difficulties the concept presents in psychological discourse .
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This brings them to explore the theoretical level of psychological discourse .
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But cognitive theories' dominance within psychological discourse induces many feminists to recapitulate these theories, overlooking their subtler gender biases.
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This chapter will argue that an important aspect of such initiatives is their address to the ambiguous significatory structures of psychological discourse .
public
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Above all, I remember the overwhelming sense of defeatism and moral chaos that pervaded public discourse .
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Rarely has a term of public discourse gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.
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The degradation of public discourse , the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.
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Within a couple of years, the public discourse changed.
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This surely must count as significant participation in public discourse .
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It is a way of making connections within a public discourse .
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Hamann's political critique takes special aim at Kant's distinction between public and private discourse .
spoken
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As a result, spoken discourse comes to be regarded as more honest and truthful.
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In spoken discourse , there is not the visual prompt of paragraph-initial line indentation to indicate a division in the discourse structure.
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Some of the features we have described as marking paratone boundaries in spoken discourse can, of course, have other functions.
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Verb-phrase anaphora occurs when a verb-phrase depends for its interpretation on another verb-phrase occurring earlier in the spoken or written discourse .
written
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Sometimes, particularly in some types of written discourse , we have only a very general or limited knowledge.
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Psychology is predominantly a written discourse , conducted through the publication of books and papers.
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This is a type which occurs throughout written discourse .
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After all, written discourse is divided into paragraphs whose boundaries are marked by indentations.
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Topic-shifts in written discourse then could be identified with the beginning of each new paragraph.
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Verb-phrase anaphora occurs when a verb-phrase depends for its interpretation on another verb-phrase occurring earlier in the spoken or written discourse .
■ NOUN
analysis
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Some of the procedures of discourse analysis will make for a more profound examination of this process.
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At the beginning of the article he observed that there were two possible directions for discourse analysis .
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The more recent studies of discourse analysis have captured the tones which people use to talk of others.
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We have, then, two approaches to language: sentence linguistics and discourse analysis .
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For discourse analysis , the most important idea to come out of the field of Artificial Intelligence is that of knowledge schemata.
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Recent linguistic work on characterisation has used the principles and analytical techniques of pragmatics and discourse analysis to considerable effect.
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Thus, in discourse analysis , reference is treated as an action on the part of the speaker / writer.
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We are, after all, performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis .
analyst
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It is exactly this latter view of the nature of reference which the discourse analyst has to appeal to.
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In trying to determine such regularities, the discourse analyst will typically adopt the traditional methodology of descriptive linguistics.
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The discourse analyst attempts to discover regularities in his data and to describe them.
function
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Such functions are examples of intonation's discourse function.
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We now turn to the second main area of intonational discourse function , the regulation of conversational behaviour.
structure
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It is good to practise discourse structure consciously as well.
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In spoken discourse , there is not the visual prompt of paragraph-initial line indentation to indicate a division in the discourse structure .
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This involves information about syntax, semantics, discourse structure , pragmatics and knowledge of the world.
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We shall return to this point in the discussion of further details of discourse structure in Chapter 4.
type
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Would it be possible to give choices of title which indicate discourse type as well?
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As Task 55 suggests, another way in which discourse type can be recognized is by title.
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The boundary between conversation and other discourse types is a fuzzy one, and there are many intermediate cases.
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Here again, there are many quite ordinary terms for the internal parts of discourse types .
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There are, moreover, infelicitous instances of any discourse type .
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How effective do you consider this means of presentation and how widely could it be applied to other discourse types ?
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Other discourse types do not have such overtly marked units; but they may also be susceptible to the same representation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rational discourse on public policy is vital to a democracy.
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the restraints of diplomatic discourse
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Chapter 2 attempts to demonstrate the specific appeal of formal labourism by examining the construction of political discourses around the working class.
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However exciting his paper, his thesis seemed in danger of crumbling if it were reworked into a conventional historical discourse .
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In many cases, the conventions of academic discourse force researchers to make these assumptions even more explicit and specific.
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Legal discourse and scientific discourse often sacrifice the maxim of quantity to the maxim of quality.
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Simply combining methods associated with femininity and masculinity, does not challenge the discourses of gender which support these associations.
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The prototype of non-reciprocal discourse is a book by a dead author.
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Without tampering with the deviant sentence itself, we can investigate the effects of placing it in variously elaborated discourse contexts.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He went on to discourse at length on the nature of fat.
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Iris was discoursing with animation, her hands describing sweeping patterns in the air, her whole attention focused on her subject.