Definition of discourse in English:

discourse

noun ˈdɪskɔːsˈdɪsˌkɔrs

1Written or spoken communication or debate.
（口头或书面的）交谈；辩论
mass noun the language of political discourse
政论语言。
count noun an imagined discourse between two people
Example sentencesExamples
- The idea has also entered the public discourse, influencing debates on school curriculums and standardised tests.
- However, we are not optimistic given the trends in current political discourse surrounding debate of issues such as the foreshore.
- They are an expression of ideas, a discussion, a debate, a discourse.
- One can imagine the consequences to the political discourse.
- Each transformation adds to the political power of the discourse.
- Ideas about class and class conflict have disappeared from political discourses.
- It is something that is quite literally built, brick by brick, and at each level of society you understand what the parameters are of political discourse and political debate.
- I think this is about the quality of our political discourse.
- The preservation discourse speaks to the practice of individual responsibility for maintaining health.
- The fact that violence was mostly reproduced within interface communities meant that political discourses, in such places, were tied to the realities of vulnerability and threat.
- So what are the fruits of our actions in the political discourse?
- I hope I can help change the political discourse in this country.
- How, then, can we force a change in the media systems that dominate the discourse and misinform the debate?
- In this, her work is a model for scholars attempting to understand the political discourse and social imaginaries of subaltern communities of all kinds.
- Someone has finally written a book that lifts the discourse of our current political debate to a higher level.
- These are issues that should be at the forefront of political debate and election discourse.
- Fear, whether it is quelled or stimulated, provides the capacity to both control and manipulate a variety of social and political discourses.
- Thus, we can identify strains of our current discourse in debates held nearly 40 years ago.
- He who controls the discourse wins the argument.
- In speaking the academic discourse of philosophy, the debaters have lost their discursive, if not their literal, accents.
Synonyms
discussion, conversation, talk, dialogue, communication, conference, debate, consultation, verbal exchange
parley, powwow, chat
Indian adda
New Zealand korero
informal confab, chit-chat
formal confabulation
rare palaver, colloquy, converse, interlocution
1. 1.1count noun A formal discussion of a topic in speech or writing.
  正式讨论
  a discourse on critical theory
  对批评理论的一场讨论。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The problem stems from critics' readiness to appeal to literature as a form of critique of legal discourse without enquiring into the discourses informing the writing, reading, and interpretation of literature itself.
  My son will deliver a discourse on a Torah topic, and each of his grandfathers will say a few words.
  It is one of the few discourses to address the topic of lay ethics.
  He prefaced his speech with a discourse on the need of friendship.
  They argued, discussed, rendered discourses and critiqued each other's theories.
  However, it's an interesting discourse on an unusual writing career.
  In so doing, she literally connected discourses on Victorian manners and Mormon theology.
  Sure enough, the reader of this collection finds a range of perspectives on and approaches to early modern texts and discourses, from highly theorized essays to more straightforward historical explorations of gender in the period.
  Whenever she brought their conversation to a subject he found interesting, he gave longwinded discourses verging on speeches.
  We have noted above that several Gnostic writings are post-resurrection discourses or dialogues.
  Both female and male writers drew on these discourses in their writing.
  Further, the economy of words and gestures in ritual speech serves to form and catechize in ways that formal discourse about this practice cannot.
  Just a short discourse and then this topic is closed on my blog henceforth.
  The author thoughtfully weaves patches of personal history with discourses on topics so fundamental to her growth as a young woman coming of age in Alabama.
  Woven of prior discourses, the text is ultimately related to all of culture.
  Valuable tips to raise themselves from mere seekers to achievers were provided by way of formal discourses, informal lectures, and games.
  A dissertation is a detailed discourse or treatise on a particular topic that provides a new perspective to a phenomenon.
  It may not lead to long discussions and discourses.
  Both men and women are implicated in formal as well as informal gift-giving, although the most formal presentations and discourses are executed by men.
  Imperialism is a term often used as a rhetorical flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts.
  Synonyms
  essay, treatise, dissertation, paper, study, critique, monograph, disquisition, tract
  lecture, address, speech, oration, peroration
  sermon, homily
2. 1.2Linguistics A connected series of utterances; a text or conversation.
  〔语言学〕语段；语篇；谈话
  Example sentencesExamples
  The investigation focused on how non-native speakers use intonation to signal meaning in the structure of their discourse.
  Although some readers would have liked to see additional chapters on discourse and pragmatics, I have kept the same choice of topics.
  As a result, the work of literature is itself a concrete utterance within those discourses, existing on the same discursive plane as a contribution to their verbal-ideological life.
  Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context.
  All three examples are from the very first sentences of their essays; possessives are being used to introduce discourse referents.
  Synonyms
  conversation, talk, communication, interchange, argument

verb dɪsˈkɔːsdɪsˈkɔrs

[no object]

1Speak or write authoritatively about a topic.
（权威性地）讲述；著述
she could discourse at great length on the history of Europe
她对欧洲史可以做长篇大论。
Example sentencesExamples
- A quilter, she discourses regularly on the simple joys of stitching cloth, of creating harmony from scraps.
- I only discoursed on that pleasing subject because news is scarce.
- It will be particularly salutary because it allows us to discourse again about self-discipline, self-mastery, and maybe even the exercise of the will.
- He spent half an hour waving his hands over my knees while discoursing on his life as a school-master and politics.
- His success with women is not to be wondered at: whatever might be their interests, he had the range of information and experience that gave him the ability to discourse knowledgeably on almost any topic under the sun.
- He read the daily paper and after digesting would discourse on current events.
- They speak directly to the emotions, and they discourse about the things in life that really matter.
- Meanwhile, fellow students were discoursing on what was to me the arcane subject of process theology.
- The Party members, after all, aren't shy about discoursing on moral standards or reluctant to translate the most basic of those standards into law.
- He discoursed about trees, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows from the wall.
- But whenever he has spoken about the guru, he has discoursed for not less than one-and-a-half hours.
- It also allowed him to discourse on an important phenomenon that was gaining prominence at the time: the conflict between piety and wealth.
- He's been doing the rounds of the newspapers portraying himself as the victim of press intrusion into his private life, and discoursing on identity and being proud to be English.
- Choose a field of research, and Aristotle laboured in it; pick an area of human endeavour, and Aristotle discoursed upon it.
- There was scarcely a subject on which he could not discourse with humor and invention, from the depressive mood of the country to its other civic troubles.
- He would never miss an opportunity, in the prologues or epilogues to these programs, to discourse upon the importance of being frightened, of having your spine tingled.
- While at the museum, he contributed essays to numerous books and kept up a prodigious lecture schedule, discoursing on the past and present of fashion at museums and universities around the country.
- While the two of us waited for the meeting to start, I sat rapt as Duncan discoursed on the origins of class society.
- Romeo stumbled back and forth across the stage, spending most of the scene discoursing to the audience about Juliet's beauty while hardly looking at her.
- So the clippers frequently fall silent while he discourses on the usual topics beloved of barbers: holidays, football, etc.
Synonyms
hold forth, expatiate, pontificate
talk, give a talk, give an address, give a speech, lecture, sermonize, preach, orate
write learnedly, write at length
informal spout, spiel, speechify, preachify, sound off
archaic perorate, lucubrate
rare dissertate
1. 1.1 Engage in conversation.
  交谈
  he spent an hour discoursing with his supporters
  他在法院花了一个小时与他的支持者交谈。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Show me then what I shall accomplish by discoursing with you.
  Time and time again, I will find myself discoursing with random people, all over the city, lately even in different states.
  One senses that he misses being in a classroom discoursing with students.
  He was in a pensive mood on this night, even when collectively discoursing with the trio.
  After an anxious search of three days they found Him in the Temple, discoursing with the learned doctors of the law.
  Synonyms
  converse, talk, speak, have a discussion, discuss matters, debate, confer, consult, parley, chat
  informal have a confab, chew the fat, rap
  formal confabulate

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting the process of reasoning): from Old French discours, from Latin discursus 'running to and fro' (in medieval Latin 'argument'), from the verb discurrere, from dis- 'away' + currere 'to run'; the verb influenced by French discourir.

Definition of discourse in US English:

discourse

nounˈdɪsˌkɔrsˈdisˌkôrs

1Written or spoken communication or debate.
（口头或书面的）交谈；辩论
the language of political discourse
政论语言。
an imagined discourse between two people traveling in France
一个虚构的两个在法国旅游的人之间的谈话。
Example sentencesExamples
- How, then, can we force a change in the media systems that dominate the discourse and misinform the debate?
- Ideas about class and class conflict have disappeared from political discourses.
- The preservation discourse speaks to the practice of individual responsibility for maintaining health.
- In speaking the academic discourse of philosophy, the debaters have lost their discursive, if not their literal, accents.
- Someone has finally written a book that lifts the discourse of our current political debate to a higher level.
- I think this is about the quality of our political discourse.
- Each transformation adds to the political power of the discourse.
- These are issues that should be at the forefront of political debate and election discourse.
- In this, her work is a model for scholars attempting to understand the political discourse and social imaginaries of subaltern communities of all kinds.
- He who controls the discourse wins the argument.
- The idea has also entered the public discourse, influencing debates on school curriculums and standardised tests.
- However, we are not optimistic given the trends in current political discourse surrounding debate of issues such as the foreshore.
- So what are the fruits of our actions in the political discourse?
- Thus, we can identify strains of our current discourse in debates held nearly 40 years ago.
- It is something that is quite literally built, brick by brick, and at each level of society you understand what the parameters are of political discourse and political debate.
- Fear, whether it is quelled or stimulated, provides the capacity to both control and manipulate a variety of social and political discourses.
- The fact that violence was mostly reproduced within interface communities meant that political discourses, in such places, were tied to the realities of vulnerability and threat.
- They are an expression of ideas, a discussion, a debate, a discourse.
- One can imagine the consequences to the political discourse.
- I hope I can help change the political discourse in this country.
Synonyms
discussion, conversation, talk, dialogue, communication, conference, debate, consultation, verbal exchange
1. 1.1 A formal discussion of a topic in speech or writing.
  正式讨论
  a discourse on critical theory
  对批评理论的一场讨论。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The problem stems from critics' readiness to appeal to literature as a form of critique of legal discourse without enquiring into the discourses informing the writing, reading, and interpretation of literature itself.
  Whenever she brought their conversation to a subject he found interesting, he gave longwinded discourses verging on speeches.
  Imperialism is a term often used as a rhetorical flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts.
  Both female and male writers drew on these discourses in their writing.
  Both men and women are implicated in formal as well as informal gift-giving, although the most formal presentations and discourses are executed by men.
  The author thoughtfully weaves patches of personal history with discourses on topics so fundamental to her growth as a young woman coming of age in Alabama.
  They argued, discussed, rendered discourses and critiqued each other's theories.
  It is one of the few discourses to address the topic of lay ethics.
  Woven of prior discourses, the text is ultimately related to all of culture.
  My son will deliver a discourse on a Torah topic, and each of his grandfathers will say a few words.
  However, it's an interesting discourse on an unusual writing career.
  Just a short discourse and then this topic is closed on my blog henceforth.
  A dissertation is a detailed discourse or treatise on a particular topic that provides a new perspective to a phenomenon.
  Further, the economy of words and gestures in ritual speech serves to form and catechize in ways that formal discourse about this practice cannot.
  Valuable tips to raise themselves from mere seekers to achievers were provided by way of formal discourses, informal lectures, and games.
  We have noted above that several Gnostic writings are post-resurrection discourses or dialogues.
  In so doing, she literally connected discourses on Victorian manners and Mormon theology.
  Sure enough, the reader of this collection finds a range of perspectives on and approaches to early modern texts and discourses, from highly theorized essays to more straightforward historical explorations of gender in the period.
  It may not lead to long discussions and discourses.
  He prefaced his speech with a discourse on the need of friendship.
  Synonyms
  essay, treatise, dissertation, paper, study, critique, monograph, disquisition, tract
2. 1.2Linguistics A connected series of utterances; a text or conversation.
  〔语言学〕语段；语篇；谈话
  Example sentencesExamples
  Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context.
  Although some readers would have liked to see additional chapters on discourse and pragmatics, I have kept the same choice of topics.
  The investigation focused on how non-native speakers use intonation to signal meaning in the structure of their discourse.
  All three examples are from the very first sentences of their essays; possessives are being used to introduce discourse referents.
  As a result, the work of literature is itself a concrete utterance within those discourses, existing on the same discursive plane as a contribution to their verbal-ideological life.
  Synonyms
  conversation, talk, communication, interchange, argument

verbdɪsˈkɔrsdisˈkôrs

[no object]

1Speak or write authoritatively about a topic.
（权威性地）讲述；著述
she could discourse at great length on the history of Europe
她对欧洲史可以做长篇大论。
Example sentencesExamples
- While at the museum, he contributed essays to numerous books and kept up a prodigious lecture schedule, discoursing on the past and present of fashion at museums and universities around the country.
- They speak directly to the emotions, and they discourse about the things in life that really matter.
- While the two of us waited for the meeting to start, I sat rapt as Duncan discoursed on the origins of class society.
- But whenever he has spoken about the guru, he has discoursed for not less than one-and-a-half hours.
- He would never miss an opportunity, in the prologues or epilogues to these programs, to discourse upon the importance of being frightened, of having your spine tingled.
- So the clippers frequently fall silent while he discourses on the usual topics beloved of barbers: holidays, football, etc.
- He spent half an hour waving his hands over my knees while discoursing on his life as a school-master and politics.
- His success with women is not to be wondered at: whatever might be their interests, he had the range of information and experience that gave him the ability to discourse knowledgeably on almost any topic under the sun.
- Meanwhile, fellow students were discoursing on what was to me the arcane subject of process theology.
- A quilter, she discourses regularly on the simple joys of stitching cloth, of creating harmony from scraps.
- There was scarcely a subject on which he could not discourse with humor and invention, from the depressive mood of the country to its other civic troubles.
- The Party members, after all, aren't shy about discoursing on moral standards or reluctant to translate the most basic of those standards into law.
- Romeo stumbled back and forth across the stage, spending most of the scene discoursing to the audience about Juliet's beauty while hardly looking at her.
- It also allowed him to discourse on an important phenomenon that was gaining prominence at the time: the conflict between piety and wealth.
- I only discoursed on that pleasing subject because news is scarce.
- He's been doing the rounds of the newspapers portraying himself as the victim of press intrusion into his private life, and discoursing on identity and being proud to be English.
- He read the daily paper and after digesting would discourse on current events.
- It will be particularly salutary because it allows us to discourse again about self-discipline, self-mastery, and maybe even the exercise of the will.
- He discoursed about trees, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows from the wall.
- Choose a field of research, and Aristotle laboured in it; pick an area of human endeavour, and Aristotle discoursed upon it.
Synonyms
hold forth, expatiate, pontificate
1. 1.1 Engage in conversation.
  交谈
  he spent an hour discoursing with his supporters in the courtroom
  他在法院花了一个小时与他的支持者交谈。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Time and time again, I will find myself discoursing with random people, all over the city, lately even in different states.
  He was in a pensive mood on this night, even when collectively discoursing with the trio.
  Show me then what I shall accomplish by discoursing with you.
  One senses that he misses being in a classroom discoursing with students.
  After an anxious search of three days they found Him in the Temple, discoursing with the learned doctors of the law.
  Synonyms
  converse, talk, speak, have a discussion, discuss matters, debate, confer, consult, parley, chat

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting the process of reasoning): from Old French discours, from Latin discursus ‘running to and fro’ (in medieval Latin ‘argument’), from the verb discurrere, from dis- ‘away’ + currere ‘to run’; the verb influenced by French discourir.

词汇	discourse
释义	Definition of discourse in English: discourse noun ˈdɪskɔːsˈdɪsˌkɔrs 1Written or spoken communication or debate. （口头或书面的）交谈；辩论 mass noun the language of political discourse 政论语言。 count noun an imagined discourse between two people Example sentencesExamples The idea has also entered the public discourse, influencing debates on school curriculums and standardised tests. However, we are not optimistic given the trends in current political discourse surrounding debate of issues such as the foreshore. They are an expression of ideas, a discussion, a debate, a discourse. One can imagine the consequences to the political discourse. Each transformation adds to the political power of the discourse. Ideas about class and class conflict have disappeared from political discourses. It is something that is quite literally built, brick by brick, and at each level of society you understand what the parameters are of political discourse and political debate. I think this is about the quality of our political discourse. The preservation discourse speaks to the practice of individual responsibility for maintaining health. The fact that violence was mostly reproduced within interface communities meant that political discourses, in such places, were tied to the realities of vulnerability and threat. So what are the fruits of our actions in the political discourse? I hope I can help change the political discourse in this country. How, then, can we force a change in the media systems that dominate the discourse and misinform the debate? In this, her work is a model for scholars attempting to understand the political discourse and social imaginaries of subaltern communities of all kinds. Someone has finally written a book that lifts the discourse of our current political debate to a higher level. These are issues that should be at the forefront of political debate and election discourse. Fear, whether it is quelled or stimulated, provides the capacity to both control and manipulate a variety of social and political discourses. Thus, we can identify strains of our current discourse in debates held nearly 40 years ago. He who controls the discourse wins the argument. In speaking the academic discourse of philosophy, the debaters have lost their discursive, if not their literal, accents. Synonyms discussion, conversation, talk, dialogue, communication, conference, debate, consultation, verbal exchange parley, powwow, chat Indian adda New Zealand korero informal confab, chit-chat formal confabulation rare palaver, colloquy, converse, interlocution 1.1count noun A formal discussion of a topic in speech or writing. 正式讨论 a discourse on critical theory 对批评理论的一场讨论。 Example sentencesExamples The problem stems from critics' readiness to appeal to literature as a form of critique of legal discourse without enquiring into the discourses informing the writing, reading, and interpretation of literature itself. My son will deliver a discourse on a Torah topic, and each of his grandfathers will say a few words. It is one of the few discourses to address the topic of lay ethics. He prefaced his speech with a discourse on the need of friendship. They argued, discussed, rendered discourses and critiqued each other's theories. However, it's an interesting discourse on an unusual writing career. In so doing, she literally connected discourses on Victorian manners and Mormon theology. Sure enough, the reader of this collection finds a range of perspectives on and approaches to early modern texts and discourses, from highly theorized essays to more straightforward historical explorations of gender in the period. Whenever she brought their conversation to a subject he found interesting, he gave longwinded discourses verging on speeches. We have noted above that several Gnostic writings are post-resurrection discourses or dialogues. Both female and male writers drew on these discourses in their writing. Further, the economy of words and gestures in ritual speech serves to form and catechize in ways that formal discourse about this practice cannot. Just a short discourse and then this topic is closed on my blog henceforth. The author thoughtfully weaves patches of personal history with discourses on topics so fundamental to her growth as a young woman coming of age in Alabama. Woven of prior discourses, the text is ultimately related to all of culture. Valuable tips to raise themselves from mere seekers to achievers were provided by way of formal discourses, informal lectures, and games. A dissertation is a detailed discourse or treatise on a particular topic that provides a new perspective to a phenomenon. It may not lead to long discussions and discourses. Both men and women are implicated in formal as well as informal gift-giving, although the most formal presentations and discourses are executed by men. Imperialism is a term often used as a rhetorical flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts. Synonyms essay, treatise, dissertation, paper, study, critique, monograph, disquisition, tract lecture, address, speech, oration, peroration sermon, homily 1.2Linguistics A connected series of utterances; a text or conversation. 〔语言学〕语段；语篇；谈话 Example sentencesExamples The investigation focused on how non-native speakers use intonation to signal meaning in the structure of their discourse. Although some readers would have liked to see additional chapters on discourse and pragmatics, I have kept the same choice of topics. As a result, the work of literature is itself a concrete utterance within those discourses, existing on the same discursive plane as a contribution to their verbal-ideological life. Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context. All three examples are from the very first sentences of their essays; possessives are being used to introduce discourse referents. Synonyms conversation, talk, communication, interchange, argument verb dɪsˈkɔːsdɪsˈkɔrs [no object] 1Speak or write authoritatively about a topic. （权威性地）讲述；著述 she could discourse at great length on the history of Europe 她对欧洲史可以做长篇大论。 Example sentencesExamples A quilter, she discourses regularly on the simple joys of stitching cloth, of creating harmony from scraps. I only discoursed on that pleasing subject because news is scarce. It will be particularly salutary because it allows us to discourse again about self-discipline, self-mastery, and maybe even the exercise of the will. He spent half an hour waving his hands over my knees while discoursing on his life as a school-master and politics. His success with women is not to be wondered at: whatever might be their interests, he had the range of information and experience that gave him the ability to discourse knowledgeably on almost any topic under the sun. He read the daily paper and after digesting would discourse on current events. They speak directly to the emotions, and they discourse about the things in life that really matter. Meanwhile, fellow students were discoursing on what was to me the arcane subject of process theology. The Party members, after all, aren't shy about discoursing on moral standards or reluctant to translate the most basic of those standards into law. He discoursed about trees, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows from the wall. But whenever he has spoken about the guru, he has discoursed for not less than one-and-a-half hours. It also allowed him to discourse on an important phenomenon that was gaining prominence at the time: the conflict between piety and wealth. He's been doing the rounds of the newspapers portraying himself as the victim of press intrusion into his private life, and discoursing on identity and being proud to be English. Choose a field of research, and Aristotle laboured in it; pick an area of human endeavour, and Aristotle discoursed upon it. There was scarcely a subject on which he could not discourse with humor and invention, from the depressive mood of the country to its other civic troubles. He would never miss an opportunity, in the prologues or epilogues to these programs, to discourse upon the importance of being frightened, of having your spine tingled. While at the museum, he contributed essays to numerous books and kept up a prodigious lecture schedule, discoursing on the past and present of fashion at museums and universities around the country. While the two of us waited for the meeting to start, I sat rapt as Duncan discoursed on the origins of class society. Romeo stumbled back and forth across the stage, spending most of the scene discoursing to the audience about Juliet's beauty while hardly looking at her. So the clippers frequently fall silent while he discourses on the usual topics beloved of barbers: holidays, football, etc. Synonyms hold forth, expatiate, pontificate talk, give a talk, give an address, give a speech, lecture, sermonize, preach, orate write learnedly, write at length informal spout, spiel, speechify, preachify, sound off archaic perorate, lucubrate rare dissertate 1.1 Engage in conversation. 交谈 he spent an hour discoursing with his supporters 他在法院花了一个小时与他的支持者交谈。 Example sentencesExamples Show me then what I shall accomplish by discoursing with you. Time and time again, I will find myself discoursing with random people, all over the city, lately even in different states. One senses that he misses being in a classroom discoursing with students. He was in a pensive mood on this night, even when collectively discoursing with the trio. After an anxious search of three days they found Him in the Temple, discoursing with the learned doctors of the law. Synonyms converse, talk, speak, have a discussion, discuss matters, debate, confer, consult, parley, chat informal have a confab, chew the fat, rap formal confabulate Origin Late Middle English (denoting the process of reasoning): from Old French discours, from Latin discursus 'running to and fro' (in medieval Latin 'argument'), from the verb discurrere, from dis- 'away' + currere 'to run'; the verb influenced by French discourir. Definition of discourse in US English: discourse nounˈdɪsˌkɔrsˈdisˌkôrs 1Written or spoken communication or debate. （口头或书面的）交谈；辩论 the language of political discourse 政论语言。 an imagined discourse between two people traveling in France 一个虚构的两个在法国旅游的人之间的谈话。 Example sentencesExamples How, then, can we force a change in the media systems that dominate the discourse and misinform the debate? Ideas about class and class conflict have disappeared from political discourses. The preservation discourse speaks to the practice of individual responsibility for maintaining health. In speaking the academic discourse of philosophy, the debaters have lost their discursive, if not their literal, accents. Someone has finally written a book that lifts the discourse of our current political debate to a higher level. I think this is about the quality of our political discourse. Each transformation adds to the political power of the discourse. These are issues that should be at the forefront of political debate and election discourse. In this, her work is a model for scholars attempting to understand the political discourse and social imaginaries of subaltern communities of all kinds. He who controls the discourse wins the argument. The idea has also entered the public discourse, influencing debates on school curriculums and standardised tests. However, we are not optimistic given the trends in current political discourse surrounding debate of issues such as the foreshore. So what are the fruits of our actions in the political discourse? Thus, we can identify strains of our current discourse in debates held nearly 40 years ago. It is something that is quite literally built, brick by brick, and at each level of society you understand what the parameters are of political discourse and political debate. Fear, whether it is quelled or stimulated, provides the capacity to both control and manipulate a variety of social and political discourses. The fact that violence was mostly reproduced within interface communities meant that political discourses, in such places, were tied to the realities of vulnerability and threat. They are an expression of ideas, a discussion, a debate, a discourse. One can imagine the consequences to the political discourse. I hope I can help change the political discourse in this country. Synonyms discussion, conversation, talk, dialogue, communication, conference, debate, consultation, verbal exchange 1.1 A formal discussion of a topic in speech or writing. 正式讨论 a discourse on critical theory 对批评理论的一场讨论。 Example sentencesExamples The problem stems from critics' readiness to appeal to literature as a form of critique of legal discourse without enquiring into the discourses informing the writing, reading, and interpretation of literature itself. Whenever she brought their conversation to a subject he found interesting, he gave longwinded discourses verging on speeches. Imperialism is a term often used as a rhetorical flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts. Both female and male writers drew on these discourses in their writing. Both men and women are implicated in formal as well as informal gift-giving, although the most formal presentations and discourses are executed by men. The author thoughtfully weaves patches of personal history with discourses on topics so fundamental to her growth as a young woman coming of age in Alabama. They argued, discussed, rendered discourses and critiqued each other's theories. It is one of the few discourses to address the topic of lay ethics. Woven of prior discourses, the text is ultimately related to all of culture. My son will deliver a discourse on a Torah topic, and each of his grandfathers will say a few words. However, it's an interesting discourse on an unusual writing career. Just a short discourse and then this topic is closed on my blog henceforth. A dissertation is a detailed discourse or treatise on a particular topic that provides a new perspective to a phenomenon. Further, the economy of words and gestures in ritual speech serves to form and catechize in ways that formal discourse about this practice cannot. Valuable tips to raise themselves from mere seekers to achievers were provided by way of formal discourses, informal lectures, and games. We have noted above that several Gnostic writings are post-resurrection discourses or dialogues. In so doing, she literally connected discourses on Victorian manners and Mormon theology. Sure enough, the reader of this collection finds a range of perspectives on and approaches to early modern texts and discourses, from highly theorized essays to more straightforward historical explorations of gender in the period. It may not lead to long discussions and discourses. He prefaced his speech with a discourse on the need of friendship. Synonyms essay, treatise, dissertation, paper, study, critique, monograph, disquisition, tract 1.2Linguistics A connected series of utterances; a text or conversation. 〔语言学〕语段；语篇；谈话 Example sentencesExamples Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context. Although some readers would have liked to see additional chapters on discourse and pragmatics, I have kept the same choice of topics. The investigation focused on how non-native speakers use intonation to signal meaning in the structure of their discourse. All three examples are from the very first sentences of their essays; possessives are being used to introduce discourse referents. As a result, the work of literature is itself a concrete utterance within those discourses, existing on the same discursive plane as a contribution to their verbal-ideological life. Synonyms conversation, talk, communication, interchange, argument verbdɪsˈkɔrsdisˈkôrs [no object] 1Speak or write authoritatively about a topic. （权威性地）讲述；著述 she could discourse at great length on the history of Europe 她对欧洲史可以做长篇大论。 Example sentencesExamples While at the museum, he contributed essays to numerous books and kept up a prodigious lecture schedule, discoursing on the past and present of fashion at museums and universities around the country. They speak directly to the emotions, and they discourse about the things in life that really matter. While the two of us waited for the meeting to start, I sat rapt as Duncan discoursed on the origins of class society. But whenever he has spoken about the guru, he has discoursed for not less than one-and-a-half hours. He would never miss an opportunity, in the prologues or epilogues to these programs, to discourse upon the importance of being frightened, of having your spine tingled. So the clippers frequently fall silent while he discourses on the usual topics beloved of barbers: holidays, football, etc. He spent half an hour waving his hands over my knees while discoursing on his life as a school-master and politics. His success with women is not to be wondered at: whatever might be their interests, he had the range of information and experience that gave him the ability to discourse knowledgeably on almost any topic under the sun. Meanwhile, fellow students were discoursing on what was to me the arcane subject of process theology. A quilter, she discourses regularly on the simple joys of stitching cloth, of creating harmony from scraps. There was scarcely a subject on which he could not discourse with humor and invention, from the depressive mood of the country to its other civic troubles. The Party members, after all, aren't shy about discoursing on moral standards or reluctant to translate the most basic of those standards into law. Romeo stumbled back and forth across the stage, spending most of the scene discoursing to the audience about Juliet's beauty while hardly looking at her. It also allowed him to discourse on an important phenomenon that was gaining prominence at the time: the conflict between piety and wealth. I only discoursed on that pleasing subject because news is scarce. He's been doing the rounds of the newspapers portraying himself as the victim of press intrusion into his private life, and discoursing on identity and being proud to be English. He read the daily paper and after digesting would discourse on current events. It will be particularly salutary because it allows us to discourse again about self-discipline, self-mastery, and maybe even the exercise of the will. He discoursed about trees, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows from the wall. Choose a field of research, and Aristotle laboured in it; pick an area of human endeavour, and Aristotle discoursed upon it. Synonyms hold forth, expatiate, pontificate 1.1 Engage in conversation. 交谈 he spent an hour discoursing with his supporters in the courtroom 他在法院花了一个小时与他的支持者交谈。 Example sentencesExamples Time and time again, I will find myself discoursing with random people, all over the city, lately even in different states. He was in a pensive mood on this night, even when collectively discoursing with the trio. Show me then what I shall accomplish by discoursing with you. One senses that he misses being in a classroom discoursing with students. After an anxious search of three days they found Him in the Temple, discoursing with the learned doctors of the law. Synonyms converse, talk, speak, have a discussion, discuss matters, debate, confer, consult, parley, chat Origin Late Middle English (denoting the process of reasoning): from Old French discours, from Latin discursus ‘running to and fro’ (in medieval Latin ‘argument’), from the verb discurrere, from dis- ‘away’ + currere ‘to run’; the verb influenced by French discourir.
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