discursive
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8.3
- adjective
- /dɪsˈkɜːrsɪv/
- Formal
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disgresivo
- Constitutional rights have presented a discursive bulwark against the encroachment of international law.
- discursive construction
- discursive practice
- discursive strategy
How do we shortcut that discursive thought and that in a monologue, through practise?
- How do we shortcut that discursive thought and that in a monologue, through practise?
Examples
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Second, it is part of a larger imperative to discredit a whole range of discursive and social practices that disparage women.
Fiction book (1991) -
Yet this principle was pursued in two different manners, as a republican representation and as discursive or deliberative democracy.
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Much more successful are his discursive accounts of his practice:
Fiction book (2000) -
I find this idea of a discursive war quite intriguing.
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What does content analysis of NASA Twitter posts reveal about their discursive features?
Academic text (2015) -
So we're in the same world, the same linguistic, the same discursive, the same theological world as the Gospel of John.
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To examine the discursive strategies deployed by community colleges to sustain legitimacy in an evolving and contradictory institutional environment.
Academic text (2015) -
The forerunners of Islamic modernism formulated their ideas within this pluralistic discursive context.
Academic text (2002) -
By studying transformations in these features, researchers hypothesize about the discursive development of students (e.g., Hull & Greeno, 2006; Sfard, 2007).
Academic text (2015) -
His presentation was so discursive that the audience struggled to follow his main argument.
Synonyms
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5.8
Saying or writing more words than needed and taking too long
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6.1
Lengthy and confused speech or writing that loses its main point
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8.1
Tending to move away from the main subject and talk about other things
To wander away from the main subject in speech or writing and cover many topics
Antonyms
How Rambling
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word discursive comes from Latin parts dis- ('apart') and currere ('to run'), the same root in current and course. It originally meant 'to run about', so a discursive talk wanders from topic to topic without strict order.