discursively
- adverb
- /dɪsˈkɜːrsɪvli/
:
de manera disgresiva
- In Canon 7, Shenoute discursively constructs the building as a symbol and exemplar of ascetic purity.
- discursively constructed identity
- discursively in ways
- discursively constructed
Examples
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During the meeting, she presented her ideas discursively, hopping from one topic to another in an unstructured way.
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The professor spoke discursively, shifting from the history of art to modern technology without a clear transition.
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To speak off the record is to have the opportunity to speak without being discursively responsible for the truthfulness of one's words.
Academic text (2001) -
The text goes on to perform what the opening has asserted discursively.
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However, there is a discursively informed undercurrent that runs throughout the liaison.
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One of the reasons why ancestors have supernatural authority is that they serve discursively to "authorize" people's talk about important topics.
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Historian Nyan Shah traces the process through which the knowledge and institutions of public health discursively constructed San Francisco Chinatown.
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The subjugation of the Palestinian people historically, geographically, and discursively to Israeli representations of the conflict is evident.
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Importantly, masculinity is discursively constructed and patrolled through performative repetition.
Academic text (2017) -
Discursively, people, landscape, and elephants all pertained to a single nature/society nexus.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
Talking or writing that moves between ideas without clear order
In a way that moves away from the main topic
In a way that uses more words than needed
Antonyms
How Rambling
Surface Forms
Morphology
discursively = discursive (transparent) = discursive + ly
The adverb is formed by the regular suffix '-ly' from the adjective 'discursive', a predictable derivation for learners who know the adjective.
Etymology
Discursively comes from the Latin parts dis- 'apart' and currere 'to run', and you can see the same root in current and course. So to speak discursively is like 'running' from one idea to another, moving around topics without a clear order.