discursive

How To Use discursive In A Sentence

• Venuti advocates that translators create a discursive heterogeneity by using non-dominant English forms to make the foreignness of the source texts felt and render the translations visible.
• Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
• Perception, unlike discursive thought or belief, is aligned not with the so-called rational part of the soul, but with the desiderative part. Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology
• This conceptualization resonates with such postpositive movements in psychology as social constructionism, postmodern thought, and discursive psychology.
• Place may be an immediate, pre-conceptual experience, and its knowledge then is intuitive rather than discursive.
• Because the discursive babbler is setting himself some dogmatically rigid guardrails.
• Discursive assessments are a valuable source for supervisors and senior managers to learn ‘what really goes on’ within a work group, a type of information that is not likely to be captured in any kind of documentary assessment.
• So it seems the adjective the NYT should have used was not "discursive" but "prevaricative". In anticipation of Friday's debate, the NYT sizes up Obama and McCain.
• Since the eighteenth century, sex has not ceased to provoke a kind of generalized discursive erethism.
• More than this, the press of enunciation is aimed toward the very object of its own discursive gesture across the drift from the phonetically denominated "double-u" to its single and more immediately recognized graphic variant. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian