DISCOURSE


Meaning of DISCOURSE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

direct discourse

indirect discourse

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

conversational

There are two points worth noting about this fragment of conversational discourse .

There are informal ways of expressing the topic, even in conversational discourse .

So, it is a myth that conversational discourse is inevitably symmetrical.

How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse?

Our argument for the importance of considering individual speaker's topics in conversational discourse would consequently be weaker.

We shall examine an extract from conversational discourse containing a longish paratone which illustrates the features just described.

There is an assumption that conversational discourse is symmetrical and logical.

critical

What we have is a critical discourse , constituting the core of the student's studies.

different

Clearly they are symptomatic of investments in different kinds of discourse .

Why should not the validity of different traditions of discourse simply be allowed to coexist?

Henriques etal.'s binary model of power and its absence is flexible enough to apply to many different kinds of discourses .

Many textbooks do show awareness of the need to deal with different discourse types, but few confront the issue of identification.

He provides a careful analysis of the relationship between the functional and structural characteristics of different types of discourse .

It also presupposes the possibility of meaningful references to different topics of discourse .

dominant

In dominant discourses of gender, activity tends to be associated with masculinity, and passivity with femininity.

Some western feminists, too, are concerned about psychological method's strong affiliations to dominant discourses of gender.

This articulation draws on dominant discourses of children which position them in constant relationship to both their and society's futures.

But here it reveals a concept of women very close to that found in dominant discourses of femininity.

Contradictory discourses are contained and framed by a dominant discourse.

He suggests that in all cases contradictory discourses are neutralised by the dominant , privileged discourse.

This interest in lesbianism preserves the emphasis dominant discourses of femininity place on women's sexuality.

Do men lose as well as gain from dominant discourses of gender?

everyday

The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.

In everyday economic discourse , nothing is more frequently taken as an index of economic growth than the volume of capital formation.

Its triumph in everyday discourse is the demand for rational or empirical justification.

Lawyer B, however, tried to resolve the issue in the terms of the presenting, everyday , discourse .

The passage from esoteric scientific theory into everyday discourse describes the prototype of objectification.

Client purchasers require that this be translated back into everyday discourse .

In the first case he offered a solution in the terms of everyday discourse .

Clients bring many issues to the solicitor, expressed and constituted in terms of a variety of everyday discourses .

other

It is as if literature were perhaps necessarily less susceptible to the temptations of logocentrism than other forms of discourse .

Feminist psychologists tend not to deal with these other discourses , except by adopting numerical strategies.

Psychology, like other discourses , associates subjectivity with femininity, and objectivity with masculinity.

My account of deixis is such that the methodology could be applied to other kinds of discourse , both literary and non-literary.

Sermons on the Card and other discourses by Hugh Latimer.

The boundary between conversation and other discourse types is a fuzzy one, and there are many intermediate cases.

The context of anthropology is that of a discourse that attempts to generalize and encompass other discourses, such as those of myth-telling.

How effective do you consider this means of presentation and how widely could it be applied to other discourse types?

particular

Any consideration of topic involves asking why the speaker said what he said in a particular discourse situation.

This leaves the possibility open of finding new insights into deixis perse as well as into its behaviour within a particular discourse .

political

The political discourse instead centered on when and whether the two Republicans chasing Dole might withdraw.

Chapter 2 attempts to demonstrate the specific appeal of formal labourism by examining the construction of political discourses around the working class.

First, there is the general point that political discourse must be understood in its argumentative context.

This whole extravaganza is demeaning, debasing and deeply damaging to what should be serious political discourse , the protesters complain.

Their words infuse the air Britain breathes, serving just three press magnates whose pernicious influence corrodes all political discourse .

psychological

Such accounts provide detailed and wide-ranging analyses of the psychological and related discourses around these objects.

Woman-centred psychology, like egalitarian feminist psychology, needs to address theory if it is really to change psychological discourses of gender.

Every psychologist is an object of psychological discourse , as well as an agent of it.

I have already discussed the difficulties the concept presents in psychological discourse .

This brings them to explore the theoretical level of psychological discourse .

But cognitive theories' dominance within psychological discourse induces many feminists to recapitulate these theories, overlooking their subtler gender biases.

This chapter will argue that an important aspect of such initiatives is their address to the ambiguous significatory structures of psychological discourse .

public

Above all, I remember the overwhelming sense of defeatism and moral chaos that pervaded public discourse .

Rarely has a term of public discourse gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.

The degradation of public discourse , the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.

Within a couple of years, the public discourse changed.

This surely must count as significant participation in public discourse .

It is a way of making connections within a public discourse .

Hamann's political critique takes special aim at Kant's distinction between public and private discourse .

spoken

As a result, spoken discourse comes to be regarded as more honest and truthful.

In spoken discourse , there is not the visual prompt of paragraph-initial line indentation to indicate a division in the discourse structure.

Some of the features we have described as marking paratone boundaries in spoken discourse can, of course, have other functions.

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

Sometimes, particularly in some types of written discourse , we have only a very general or limited knowledge.

Psychology is predominantly a written discourse , conducted through the publication of books and papers.

This is a type which occurs throughout written discourse .

After all, written discourse is divided into paragraphs whose boundaries are marked by indentations.

Topic-shifts in written discourse then could be identified with the beginning of each new paragraph.

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

Some of the procedures of discourse analysis will make for a more profound examination of this process.

At the beginning of the article he observed that there were two possible directions for discourse analysis .

The more recent studies of discourse analysis have captured the tones which people use to talk of others.

We have, then, two approaches to language: sentence linguistics and discourse analysis .

For discourse analysis , the most important idea to come out of the field of Artificial Intelligence is that of knowledge schemata.

Recent linguistic work on characterisation has used the principles and analytical techniques of pragmatics and discourse analysis to considerable effect.

Thus, in discourse analysis , reference is treated as an action on the part of the speaker / writer.

We are, after all, performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis .

analyst

It is exactly this latter view of the nature of reference which the discourse analyst has to appeal to.

In trying to determine such regularities, the discourse analyst will typically adopt the traditional methodology of descriptive linguistics.

The discourse analyst attempts to discover regularities in his data and to describe them.

function

Such functions are examples of intonation's discourse function.

We now turn to the second main area of intonational discourse function , the regulation of conversational behaviour.

structure

It is good to practise discourse structure consciously as well.

In spoken discourse , there is not the visual prompt of paragraph-initial line indentation to indicate a division in the discourse structure .

This involves information about syntax, semantics, discourse structure , pragmatics and knowledge of the world.

We shall return to this point in the discussion of further details of discourse structure in Chapter 4.

type

Would it be possible to give choices of title which indicate discourse type as well?

As Task 55 suggests, another way in which discourse type can be recognized is by title.

The boundary between conversation and other discourse types is a fuzzy one, and there are many intermediate cases.

Here again, there are many quite ordinary terms for the internal parts of discourse types .

There are, moreover, infelicitous instances of any discourse type .

How effective do you consider this means of presentation and how widely could it be applied to other discourse types ?

Other discourse types do not have such overtly marked units; but they may also be susceptible to the same representation.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Rational discourse on public policy is vital to a democracy.

the restraints of diplomatic discourse

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Chapter 2 attempts to demonstrate the specific appeal of formal labourism by examining the construction of political discourses around the working class.

However exciting his paper, his thesis seemed in danger of crumbling if it were reworked into a conventional historical discourse .

In many cases, the conventions of academic discourse force researchers to make these assumptions even more explicit and specific.

Legal discourse and scientific discourse often sacrifice the maxim of quantity to the maxim of quality.

Simply combining methods associated with femininity and masculinity, does not challenge the discourses of gender which support these associations.

The prototype of non-reciprocal discourse is a book by a dead author.

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

He went on to discourse at length on the nature of fat.

Iris was discoursing with animation, her hands describing sweeping patterns in the air, her whole attention focused on her subject.

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