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US
/ˈdɪskɔɹs/
]
VERB
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to consider or examine in speech or writing
The author talks about the different aspects of this question
The class discussed Dante's `Inferno' -
talk at length and formally about a topic
The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England - carry on a conversation
NOUN
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an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic
his treatment of the race question is badly biased - extended verbal expression in speech or writing
- an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
How To Use discourse In A Sentence
- How, then, can we force a change in the media systems that dominate the discourse and misinform the debate?
- This kind of discourse is at the opposite pole from storytelling as defined by Benjamin.
- Discourse doesn't have to stoop to the level unreturnable. Hillary On Obama's Speeches: "It's Change You Can Xerox"
- Reading makes a full amn, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
- How can the social conditions be established which practical discourse would require? The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
- That they are not can be demonstrated by the way in which the term pulp was introduced into literary discourse. Genres and niche markets
- Above all put a rigorous, rich language back at the centre of political discourse. Times, Sunday Times
- These were now crystallized in an expanded discourse on male and female sexuality.
- He stared at the object of discourse , as one might do at a strange repulsive animal.
- Why do men listen with more strict attention to an inflammatory harangue, that may not be argumentative, than to a prosaical discourse, that is, to an anecdote than to a prayer, to an extravaganza than to a lecture, or derive more pleasure from pantomimic drollery than from Hamlet, or hearing an opera they do not understand than from reading an essay they do. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
