Definition of discursive in English:

discursive

adjective dɪsˈkəːsɪvdəˈskərsɪv

1Digressing from subject to subject.
离题的；东扯西拉的
students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose
学生们写的文章往往枯燥乏味、缺乏新意、东扯西拉。
Example sentencesExamples
- But first, I will string you along with some largely unnecessary details presented in a rambling, discursive manner, so as to build suspense and fulfill my word quota.
- She is best when her discursive, rambling method strikes something eccentrically sharp and moving; not often in complete poems, though the sustained Lullaby here is a fine exception.
- Her answers are discursive; ask her a question and you'd better be prepared for a 10-minute explanation.
- It is a long-winded, discursive discussion about benefits and costs, without any clarity at all.
- Even more commonly the function is a discursive and indecisive meander through various fields of learning for its own sake.
- Because of this, associative ‘correspondences’ between discursive subjects and incongruent temporal episodes, no matter how unclear, are made possible.
- Occasionally, however, the poet rises above his discursive fray long enough to interrogate the nature of the dispute.
Synonyms
rambling, digressive, meandering, wandering, maundering, diffuse, long, lengthy
circuitous, roundabout, circumlocutory, periphrastic
verbose, long-winded, prolix
informal wordy
British informal waffly
rare pleonastic, logorrhoeic, ambagious
1. 1.1 (of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive.
  （演讲或写作风格）流畅的，舒展的
  the short story is concentrated, whereas the novel is discursive
  短篇小说的内容是集中的，而长篇小说则是展得很开的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The implication of the new roles for the language was that creative writers seriously attempted those literary forms which had been neglected earlier, for example drama, short stories and discursive prose.
  He has subsequently been accused of paying too little attention to the plays in performance, in effect of treating them as discursive, almost novelistic, works of literature.
  The more lengthy and discursive notes of the original forces give way to a short, punchy, military style, often devoid of emotion.
  There must be some important enabling mechanism for people to be so discursive about things.
  The style is discursive, not doctrinal; persuasive, not proclamatory.
  A concrete way of doing this is to forsake the practice of writing celebratory catalogues about collectors and their unique collections of Japanese objects for the more daunting task of discursive writing on Japanese art.
  His monologue, delivered as he perched on the edge of his desk or on a stool, was gentle, discursive and memorized from his own handwritten notes - no cue cards.
  The chapter is thus neatly brought full circle and sets the pattern of the book's discursive style, weaving the threads of memory into the present.
  It was a very difficult email to write - an unusual admission for someone like me, who could probably craft a lengthy, discursive or emotional email out of a shopping list.
  His memoir, in a translation that preserves the author's gorgeous, discursive style and his love of wordplay, is a social history embedded within an autobiography.
  His discursive sentences begin, then wander playfully, searching under a rock for an insight or chasing a firefly to some understanding, before finally tying up, always neatly, his original point.
  Good style is honest, because it is consistent in the application of its principles - it aspires to integrity of diction, of discursive attitude.
  The richness of imagery and metaphor in the biblical writings, in its narrative, poetry, and more discursive writing, is such that it is bound to lead to readings which draw freely on the experience of the readers.
  Instead, he combines an astute perspective on earlier historical and sociological research with a sophisticated apprehension of the discursive dynamics of literary texts.
  But over the past few weeks, I've felt that what I've written has neither provided interesting links, nor has it offered the discursive posts that I know I'm quite capable of doing.
  His mother, gradually tells the story of his life in a series of letters - written in elegant, discursive prose - to her now absent husband, Franklin.
  Synonyms
  fluent, flowing, fluid, eloquent, articulate, elegant, expansive
2Relating to discourse or modes of discourse.
论述的；论述形式的
the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another
将讲话从一种论述背景转换到另一种的努力。
Example sentencesExamples
- In other words, even though some individuals seemed conflicted, or torn between two incompatible discourses, their discursive practices were not found to be neutral.
- I slip from the intra-discursive level to the inter-discursive level and begin critiquing the performative discursive mode in which the other person is speaking.
- Although we must be careful with the term postmodern, it would certainly make sense to see the above features in terms of hegemonic strategies, discursive formations, modes of regulation and regimes of accumulation.
- This is the classic entanglement of the discursive with the figurative mode of representation - which may beguile and disturb the writer.
- Independence movements are associated with working within the system, pushing up against its boundaries, with a discursive discourse to change consciousness.
3Philosophy
archaic Proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition.
〔哲〕〈古〉推论的；推理的
Example sentencesExamples
- Place may be an immediate, pre-conceptual experience, and its knowledge then is intuitive rather than discursive.
- This assumption of a given unacquired intuitive and revelatory source of true judgments transcending discursive reason is both a logical and an empirical imperative.
- Like Socrates, Russell saw philosophy as spoken and conversational, rather than written and discursive.
- In intuition, discursive reasoning of data is not singled out as a special phase.
- Rather than engaging in discursive reflection on complex theological questions, they prefer to tell stories.

Derivatives

discursively

adverb dɪˈskəːsɪvlidəˈskərsɪvli

Different identities, different traces, of the subject although each, paradoxically, determining a bounded whole which co-exists discursively without conflict.
Example sentencesExamples
- By ‘localised state of exception’ I mean organised around a particular social problem and discursively constructed around a necessarily problematic figure, such as the hoon.
- Since representations are mediations - visually, culturally, and discursively - they displace elements of the real world and social relations.
- ‘I speak elliptically, discursively,’ she admits, babbling about an obsolete guidebook to Kabul, Afghanistan, which she holds on her lap.
- Gender, in poststructuralist theories does not emanate from a ‘naturally given’ sexed body, but as a discursively given code comes to materialize bodies as sexed.

discursiveness

noun dɪˈskəːsɪvnəsdəˈskərsɪvnəs

We experience the possibility of living a life in which we aren't continuously bombarded by emotions, discursiveness and concepts about the nature of things.
Example sentencesExamples
- Both in its structure and topography, this half of the book privileges delay, wandering, discursiveness, and ultimately suspense through a proliferation of places.
- If we're trying to be completely concept-free, with no discursiveness at all, it's just not going to happen.
- What emerges might not be as overt as anger, jealousy or desire; it might be a subtle undercurrent of discursiveness.
- A bumpy discursiveness was always his method's mark, even his forte, but here it shows excessive wobble.

Origin

Late 16th century: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally 'gone hastily to and fro', from the verb discurrere (see discourse).

cursor from Middle English:
Nowadays we call the movable indicator on our computer screen the cursor. In medieval English a cursor was a running messenger: it is a borrowing of the Latin word for ‘a runner’, and comes from currere ‘to run’. From the late 16th century cursor became the term for a sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument, marked with a line for pinpointing the position on a scale that you want, the forerunner of the computing sense. Currere is the source of very many English words including course (Middle English) something you run along; concourse (Late Middle English) originally a crowd who had ‘run together’; current (Middle English) originally meaning ‘running, flowing’; discursive (late 16th century) running away from the point; excursion (late 16th century) running out to see things; intercourse (Late Middle English) originally an exchange running between people; and precursor (Late Middle English) one who goes before; as well as supplying the cur part of concur (Late Middle English); incur (Late Middle English); occur (Late Middle English) (from ob- ‘against’); and recur (Middle English).

Definition of discursive in US English:

discursive

adjectivedəˈskərsɪvdəˈskərsiv

1Digressing from subject to subject.
离题的；东扯西拉的
students often write dull, secondhand, discursive prose
学生们写的文章往往枯燥乏味、缺乏新意、东扯西拉。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her answers are discursive; ask her a question and you'd better be prepared for a 10-minute explanation.
- Because of this, associative ‘correspondences’ between discursive subjects and incongruent temporal episodes, no matter how unclear, are made possible.
- Occasionally, however, the poet rises above his discursive fray long enough to interrogate the nature of the dispute.
- But first, I will string you along with some largely unnecessary details presented in a rambling, discursive manner, so as to build suspense and fulfill my word quota.
- Even more commonly the function is a discursive and indecisive meander through various fields of learning for its own sake.
- It is a long-winded, discursive discussion about benefits and costs, without any clarity at all.
- She is best when her discursive, rambling method strikes something eccentrically sharp and moving; not often in complete poems, though the sustained Lullaby here is a fine exception.
Synonyms
rambling, digressive, meandering, wandering, maundering, diffuse, long, lengthy
1. 1.1 (of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive rather than formulaic or abbreviated.
  （演讲或写作风格）流畅的，舒展的
  the short story is concentrated, whereas the novel is discursive
  短篇小说的内容是集中的，而长篇小说则是展得很开的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But over the past few weeks, I've felt that what I've written has neither provided interesting links, nor has it offered the discursive posts that I know I'm quite capable of doing.
  The chapter is thus neatly brought full circle and sets the pattern of the book's discursive style, weaving the threads of memory into the present.
  The implication of the new roles for the language was that creative writers seriously attempted those literary forms which had been neglected earlier, for example drama, short stories and discursive prose.
  A concrete way of doing this is to forsake the practice of writing celebratory catalogues about collectors and their unique collections of Japanese objects for the more daunting task of discursive writing on Japanese art.
  Good style is honest, because it is consistent in the application of its principles - it aspires to integrity of diction, of discursive attitude.
  The style is discursive, not doctrinal; persuasive, not proclamatory.
  He has subsequently been accused of paying too little attention to the plays in performance, in effect of treating them as discursive, almost novelistic, works of literature.
  It was a very difficult email to write - an unusual admission for someone like me, who could probably craft a lengthy, discursive or emotional email out of a shopping list.
  There must be some important enabling mechanism for people to be so discursive about things.
  Instead, he combines an astute perspective on earlier historical and sociological research with a sophisticated apprehension of the discursive dynamics of literary texts.
  His memoir, in a translation that preserves the author's gorgeous, discursive style and his love of wordplay, is a social history embedded within an autobiography.
  His monologue, delivered as he perched on the edge of his desk or on a stool, was gentle, discursive and memorized from his own handwritten notes - no cue cards.
  The more lengthy and discursive notes of the original forces give way to a short, punchy, military style, often devoid of emotion.
  The richness of imagery and metaphor in the biblical writings, in its narrative, poetry, and more discursive writing, is such that it is bound to lead to readings which draw freely on the experience of the readers.
  His mother, gradually tells the story of his life in a series of letters - written in elegant, discursive prose - to her now absent husband, Franklin.
  His discursive sentences begin, then wander playfully, searching under a rock for an insight or chasing a firefly to some understanding, before finally tying up, always neatly, his original point.
  Synonyms
  fluent, flowing, fluid, eloquent, articulate, elegant, expansive
2Relating to discourse or modes of discourse.
论述的；论述形式的
the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another
将讲话从一种论述背景转换到另一种的努力。
Example sentencesExamples
- Independence movements are associated with working within the system, pushing up against its boundaries, with a discursive discourse to change consciousness.
- This is the classic entanglement of the discursive with the figurative mode of representation - which may beguile and disturb the writer.
- I slip from the intra-discursive level to the inter-discursive level and begin critiquing the performative discursive mode in which the other person is speaking.
- In other words, even though some individuals seemed conflicted, or torn between two incompatible discourses, their discursive practices were not found to be neutral.
- Although we must be careful with the term postmodern, it would certainly make sense to see the above features in terms of hegemonic strategies, discursive formations, modes of regulation and regimes of accumulation.
3Philosophy
archaic Proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition.
〔哲〕〈古〉推论的；推理的
Example sentencesExamples
- In intuition, discursive reasoning of data is not singled out as a special phase.
- This assumption of a given unacquired intuitive and revelatory source of true judgments transcending discursive reason is both a logical and an empirical imperative.
- Place may be an immediate, pre-conceptual experience, and its knowledge then is intuitive rather than discursive.
- Like Socrates, Russell saw philosophy as spoken and conversational, rather than written and discursive.
- Rather than engaging in discursive reflection on complex theological questions, they prefer to tell stories.

Origin

Late 16th century: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally ‘gone hastily to and fro’, from the verb discurrere (see discourse).

词汇	discursive
释义	Definition of discursive in English: discursive adjective dɪsˈkəːsɪvdəˈskərsɪv 1Digressing from subject to subject. 离题的；东扯西拉的 students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose 学生们写的文章往往枯燥乏味、缺乏新意、东扯西拉。 Example sentencesExamples But first, I will string you along with some largely unnecessary details presented in a rambling, discursive manner, so as to build suspense and fulfill my word quota. She is best when her discursive, rambling method strikes something eccentrically sharp and moving; not often in complete poems, though the sustained Lullaby here is a fine exception. Her answers are discursive; ask her a question and you'd better be prepared for a 10-minute explanation. It is a long-winded, discursive discussion about benefits and costs, without any clarity at all. Even more commonly the function is a discursive and indecisive meander through various fields of learning for its own sake. Because of this, associative ‘correspondences’ between discursive subjects and incongruent temporal episodes, no matter how unclear, are made possible. Occasionally, however, the poet rises above his discursive fray long enough to interrogate the nature of the dispute. Synonyms rambling, digressive, meandering, wandering, maundering, diffuse, long, lengthy circuitous, roundabout, circumlocutory, periphrastic verbose, long-winded, prolix informal wordy British informal waffly rare pleonastic, logorrhoeic, ambagious 1.1 (of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive. （演讲或写作风格）流畅的，舒展的 the short story is concentrated, whereas the novel is discursive 短篇小说的内容是集中的，而长篇小说则是展得很开的。 Example sentencesExamples The implication of the new roles for the language was that creative writers seriously attempted those literary forms which had been neglected earlier, for example drama, short stories and discursive prose. He has subsequently been accused of paying too little attention to the plays in performance, in effect of treating them as discursive, almost novelistic, works of literature. The more lengthy and discursive notes of the original forces give way to a short, punchy, military style, often devoid of emotion. There must be some important enabling mechanism for people to be so discursive about things. The style is discursive, not doctrinal; persuasive, not proclamatory. A concrete way of doing this is to forsake the practice of writing celebratory catalogues about collectors and their unique collections of Japanese objects for the more daunting task of discursive writing on Japanese art. His monologue, delivered as he perched on the edge of his desk or on a stool, was gentle, discursive and memorized from his own handwritten notes - no cue cards. The chapter is thus neatly brought full circle and sets the pattern of the book's discursive style, weaving the threads of memory into the present. It was a very difficult email to write - an unusual admission for someone like me, who could probably craft a lengthy, discursive or emotional email out of a shopping list. His memoir, in a translation that preserves the author's gorgeous, discursive style and his love of wordplay, is a social history embedded within an autobiography. His discursive sentences begin, then wander playfully, searching under a rock for an insight or chasing a firefly to some understanding, before finally tying up, always neatly, his original point. Good style is honest, because it is consistent in the application of its principles - it aspires to integrity of diction, of discursive attitude. The richness of imagery and metaphor in the biblical writings, in its narrative, poetry, and more discursive writing, is such that it is bound to lead to readings which draw freely on the experience of the readers. Instead, he combines an astute perspective on earlier historical and sociological research with a sophisticated apprehension of the discursive dynamics of literary texts. But over the past few weeks, I've felt that what I've written has neither provided interesting links, nor has it offered the discursive posts that I know I'm quite capable of doing. His mother, gradually tells the story of his life in a series of letters - written in elegant, discursive prose - to her now absent husband, Franklin. Synonyms fluent, flowing, fluid, eloquent, articulate, elegant, expansive 2Relating to discourse or modes of discourse. 论述的；论述形式的 the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another 将讲话从一种论述背景转换到另一种的努力。 Example sentencesExamples In other words, even though some individuals seemed conflicted, or torn between two incompatible discourses, their discursive practices were not found to be neutral. I slip from the intra-discursive level to the inter-discursive level and begin critiquing the performative discursive mode in which the other person is speaking. Although we must be careful with the term postmodern, it would certainly make sense to see the above features in terms of hegemonic strategies, discursive formations, modes of regulation and regimes of accumulation. This is the classic entanglement of the discursive with the figurative mode of representation - which may beguile and disturb the writer. Independence movements are associated with working within the system, pushing up against its boundaries, with a discursive discourse to change consciousness. 3Philosophy archaic Proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition. 〔哲〕〈古〉推论的；推理的 Example sentencesExamples Place may be an immediate, pre-conceptual experience, and its knowledge then is intuitive rather than discursive. This assumption of a given unacquired intuitive and revelatory source of true judgments transcending discursive reason is both a logical and an empirical imperative. Like Socrates, Russell saw philosophy as spoken and conversational, rather than written and discursive. In intuition, discursive reasoning of data is not singled out as a special phase. Rather than engaging in discursive reflection on complex theological questions, they prefer to tell stories. Derivatives discursively adverb dɪˈskəːsɪvlidəˈskərsɪvli Different identities, different traces, of the subject although each, paradoxically, determining a bounded whole which co-exists discursively without conflict. Example sentencesExamples By ‘localised state of exception’ I mean organised around a particular social problem and discursively constructed around a necessarily problematic figure, such as the hoon. Since representations are mediations - visually, culturally, and discursively - they displace elements of the real world and social relations. ‘I speak elliptically, discursively,’ she admits, babbling about an obsolete guidebook to Kabul, Afghanistan, which she holds on her lap. Gender, in poststructuralist theories does not emanate from a ‘naturally given’ sexed body, but as a discursively given code comes to materialize bodies as sexed. discursiveness noun dɪˈskəːsɪvnəsdəˈskərsɪvnəs We experience the possibility of living a life in which we aren't continuously bombarded by emotions, discursiveness and concepts about the nature of things. Example sentencesExamples Both in its structure and topography, this half of the book privileges delay, wandering, discursiveness, and ultimately suspense through a proliferation of places. If we're trying to be completely concept-free, with no discursiveness at all, it's just not going to happen. What emerges might not be as overt as anger, jealousy or desire; it might be a subtle undercurrent of discursiveness. A bumpy discursiveness was always his method's mark, even his forte, but here it shows excessive wobble. Origin Late 16th century: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally 'gone hastily to and fro', from the verb discurrere (see discourse). cursor from Middle English: Nowadays we call the movable indicator on our computer screen the cursor. In medieval English a cursor was a running messenger: it is a borrowing of the Latin word for ‘a runner’, and comes from currere ‘to run’. From the late 16th century cursor became the term for a sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument, marked with a line for pinpointing the position on a scale that you want, the forerunner of the computing sense. Currere is the source of very many English words including course (Middle English) something you run along; concourse (Late Middle English) originally a crowd who had ‘run together’; current (Middle English) originally meaning ‘running, flowing’; discursive (late 16th century) running away from the point; excursion (late 16th century) running out to see things; intercourse (Late Middle English) originally an exchange running between people; and precursor (Late Middle English) one who goes before; as well as supplying the cur part of concur (Late Middle English); incur (Late Middle English); occur (Late Middle English) (from ob- ‘against’); and recur (Middle English). Definition of discursive in US English: discursive adjectivedəˈskərsɪvdəˈskərsiv 1Digressing from subject to subject. 离题的；东扯西拉的 students often write dull, secondhand, discursive prose 学生们写的文章往往枯燥乏味、缺乏新意、东扯西拉。 Example sentencesExamples Her answers are discursive; ask her a question and you'd better be prepared for a 10-minute explanation. Because of this, associative ‘correspondences’ between discursive subjects and incongruent temporal episodes, no matter how unclear, are made possible. Occasionally, however, the poet rises above his discursive fray long enough to interrogate the nature of the dispute. But first, I will string you along with some largely unnecessary details presented in a rambling, discursive manner, so as to build suspense and fulfill my word quota. Even more commonly the function is a discursive and indecisive meander through various fields of learning for its own sake. It is a long-winded, discursive discussion about benefits and costs, without any clarity at all. She is best when her discursive, rambling method strikes something eccentrically sharp and moving; not often in complete poems, though the sustained Lullaby here is a fine exception. Synonyms rambling, digressive, meandering, wandering, maundering, diffuse, long, lengthy 1.1 (of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive rather than formulaic or abbreviated. （演讲或写作风格）流畅的，舒展的 the short story is concentrated, whereas the novel is discursive 短篇小说的内容是集中的，而长篇小说则是展得很开的。 Example sentencesExamples But over the past few weeks, I've felt that what I've written has neither provided interesting links, nor has it offered the discursive posts that I know I'm quite capable of doing. The chapter is thus neatly brought full circle and sets the pattern of the book's discursive style, weaving the threads of memory into the present. The implication of the new roles for the language was that creative writers seriously attempted those literary forms which had been neglected earlier, for example drama, short stories and discursive prose. A concrete way of doing this is to forsake the practice of writing celebratory catalogues about collectors and their unique collections of Japanese objects for the more daunting task of discursive writing on Japanese art. Good style is honest, because it is consistent in the application of its principles - it aspires to integrity of diction, of discursive attitude. The style is discursive, not doctrinal; persuasive, not proclamatory. He has subsequently been accused of paying too little attention to the plays in performance, in effect of treating them as discursive, almost novelistic, works of literature. It was a very difficult email to write - an unusual admission for someone like me, who could probably craft a lengthy, discursive or emotional email out of a shopping list. There must be some important enabling mechanism for people to be so discursive about things. Instead, he combines an astute perspective on earlier historical and sociological research with a sophisticated apprehension of the discursive dynamics of literary texts. His memoir, in a translation that preserves the author's gorgeous, discursive style and his love of wordplay, is a social history embedded within an autobiography. His monologue, delivered as he perched on the edge of his desk or on a stool, was gentle, discursive and memorized from his own handwritten notes - no cue cards. The more lengthy and discursive notes of the original forces give way to a short, punchy, military style, often devoid of emotion. The richness of imagery and metaphor in the biblical writings, in its narrative, poetry, and more discursive writing, is such that it is bound to lead to readings which draw freely on the experience of the readers. His mother, gradually tells the story of his life in a series of letters - written in elegant, discursive prose - to her now absent husband, Franklin. His discursive sentences begin, then wander playfully, searching under a rock for an insight or chasing a firefly to some understanding, before finally tying up, always neatly, his original point. Synonyms fluent, flowing, fluid, eloquent, articulate, elegant, expansive 2Relating to discourse or modes of discourse. 论述的；论述形式的 the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another 将讲话从一种论述背景转换到另一种的努力。 Example sentencesExamples Independence movements are associated with working within the system, pushing up against its boundaries, with a discursive discourse to change consciousness. This is the classic entanglement of the discursive with the figurative mode of representation - which may beguile and disturb the writer. I slip from the intra-discursive level to the inter-discursive level and begin critiquing the performative discursive mode in which the other person is speaking. In other words, even though some individuals seemed conflicted, or torn between two incompatible discourses, their discursive practices were not found to be neutral. Although we must be careful with the term postmodern, it would certainly make sense to see the above features in terms of hegemonic strategies, discursive formations, modes of regulation and regimes of accumulation. 3Philosophy archaic Proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition. 〔哲〕〈古〉推论的；推理的 Example sentencesExamples In intuition, discursive reasoning of data is not singled out as a special phase. This assumption of a given unacquired intuitive and revelatory source of true judgments transcending discursive reason is both a logical and an empirical imperative. Place may be an immediate, pre-conceptual experience, and its knowledge then is intuitive rather than discursive. Like Socrates, Russell saw philosophy as spoken and conversational, rather than written and discursive. Rather than engaging in discursive reflection on complex theological questions, they prefer to tell stories. Origin Late 16th century: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally ‘gone hastily to and fro’, from the verb discurrere (see discourse).
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