nondiscursive

Examples

• All

• The professor delivered a nondiscursive lecture that focused strictly on the main topic without any diversions.

• Issues of fixed perspective come in for particular criticism in the recurrence of the theme of antisemitism in the text, in the rigid nondiscursive positions assumed by the Dreyfusards and anti-Dreyfusards, and in the account of the static social world during the Great War.

  Academic text (1999)

• Like a Zen koan or other practices in which thinking confronts its own limitations, such a cognitive impasse can serve as the gateway to the direct, nondiscursive experience that the present is sufficient unto itself.

  Academic text (2002)

• Such discourses need to be tested and assessed—not by comparison with a nondiscursive object ("Can you tell me what you are talking about without putting it into language?") but by assessing the reliability of the discourse, including the effects it has.

  Academic text (2007)

• For an effective presentation, make sure your points are nondiscursive, allowing the audience to understand your argument clearly.

Synonyms

C

concise

vsnondiscursive

37 4.2

Using few words to give important information clearly

prioritizes staying on topic rather than including more information

S

succinct

vsnondiscursive

18 6.4

Short and clear, using only a few words

keeps strictly to the topic rather than only shortening language

Antonyms

R

rambling

• Informal

6 6.1

Lengthy and confused speech or writing that loses its main point

D

discursive

• Formal

1 8.3

Speaking or writing that moves from one topic to another without clear order

How Focused

nondiscursive

• Formal

8.6

focused

3.0

discursive

• Formal

1 8.3

wordy

8 3.7

rambling

33 5.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology