nondiscursive

Examples

• All

• Others have discussed the arts in similar terms: "Music, dance, the visual arts... are nondiscursive, nonliteral, and not assertive... they hold and express meaning although that meaning may never be captured in normal spoken language" (Yob, 2011, p. 43).

  Academic text (2015)

• Specifically, the visual has served, over and again, as the figure within textual analysis for the nontextual, within discourse for the nondiscursive.

  Academic text (1995)

• During the meditation session, participants experienced nondiscursive awareness, connecting with their emotions beyond verbal expression.

• The dancer's movements communicated a nondiscursive message that resonated deeply with the audience.

Synonyms

N

nonverbal

vsnondiscursive

8 3.7

Showing feelings and ideas without spoken or written words using gestures and facial expressions

includes sensory and intuitive understanding rather than only visible bodily signals

N

nonverbalized

vsnondiscursive

7.7

Not expressed in words but shown by actions or silence

emphasizes understanding through sensory or intuitive means rather than just absence of words

N

nonlexical

vsnondiscursive

• Specialized

8.8

Not about words or word meanings and often about sounds and grammar

applies to sensory or intuitive experience beyond vocabulary or word issues

N

nonlinguistic

vsnondiscursive

• Specialized

6.8

Not about language, for example gestures and facial expressions

is narrower and centers on sensory or intuitive modes rather than any language relation

N

nonconceptual

vsnondiscursive

• Specialized

8.7

Not involving clear ideas or words that name things

focuses on sensory or intuitive expression rather than absence of conceptual thought

Antonyms

V

verbal

116 4.3

Having to do with words and language or skill in using them

How Verbal

verbal

37 3.2

discursive

• Formal

1 8.2

implicit

49 6.1

nondiscursive

• Literature

9.9

nonverbal

8 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology