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.

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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
Instead, he combines an astute perspective on earlier historical and sociological research with a sophisticated apprehension of the discursive dynamics of literary texts.
The "discursive polity" will emerge from the interactive polity through political struggle. Politics, Planning and the State
But now suppose that your mind is in its nature discursive, erratic, subject to electric attractions and repulsions, volage; it may be impossible for you to compel your attention except by taking away all external disturbances. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The conversation arrested its discursive nature, to settle upon a political chief, the highest in fame and station of that party to which Mivers professed -- not to belong, he belonged to himself alone, but to appropinquate. Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 04
This is a discursive way of building up a herbaceous planting but one which lends itself to gardens of any size. The Education of a Gardener
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.
Instead we got improv -- 73 minutes of Quinn at his folksiest and most discursive, riffing off a set of notes he brought to the podium and moving with little apparent focus from point to point. Chicagotribune.com -
In "My Jerry Saltz Problem," a spiritedly discursive philippic in the New Criterion about the changing nature of art criticism, James Panero articulates how disgruntled print journalists and traditional art critics feel about new media such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. Sharon L. Butler: Jerry Saltz's Burden
A sign of the broad success of her discursive style is that the least effective essay is the shortest. The Times Literary Supplement
The complicated impact of officials on the feudalist management was also revealed sufficiently in this book. It had opened a new important chapter for the genre of discursive remarks.
Drawing on Ian Hacking's work, Haslanger has referred to this as "discursive" construction: Feminist Metaphysics
Coined by the BBC in 1934, "liveness" became a nifty discursive distinction when an ontological one didn't really exist. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone
Brackett unpacks the idea of a stable racial essence by analysing Brown's music in terms of a black discursive world set in a particular historical context.
On 14 February 2008 with 9 comments explicate discursive paratactic trope quotidian Waldo Jaquith - 5 words my poetry professor used during today’s lecture.
Good style is honest, because it is consistent in the application of its principles - it aspires to integrity of diction, of discursive attitude.
Thus at a more discursive level, the brigade aims to change public perceptions of menstruation.
A first contact with John Ashbery's poems often throws readers into confusion with his multifarious, usually longwinded and discursive, verses which seem to have no distinctive characteristics at all.
The former -- discursive proofs -- ought to be termed acroamatic proofs, rather than demonstrations, as only words are employed in them, while demonstrations proper, as the term itself indicates, always require a reference to the intuition of the object. The Critique of Pure Reason
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.
There must be some important enabling mechanism for people to be so discursive about things.
Occasionally, however, the poet rises above his discursive fray long enough to interrogate the nature of the dispute.
The first is discursive or verbal consciousness.
Even in comedic and satiric forms that suspended the stability of this dominant gender ideology, it remained particularly complicated for Romantic women playwrights to portray a body scientifically sexed as female and discursively gendered as feminine that might challenge prevailing medical accounts that devalued the female body as an aberration deviating from the male anatomical “norm.” Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies
Another European form, older than divan, and app. directly from Arabic, is It. dovana, doana, now dogana, F. douane in 15th c. douwaine, custom-house: see DOUANE.For a more discursive collection of definitions, with 19th-century stabs at etymology, see the Hobson-Jobson entry. Languagehat.com: DIVAN.
Independence movements are associated with working within the system, pushing up against its boundaries, with a discursive discourse to change consciousness.
The rest of Part I draws on various ideas from social constructionism and discursive psychology that question the positivist view of health and illness as objectivist entities.
But the wall that split photography's discursive territory into an aesthetic-commercial-public realm, on the one hand, and home duty, on the other, remained inviolate.
Even more commonly the function is a discursive and indecisive meander through various fields of learning for its own sake.
Rather than engaging in discursive reflection on complex theological questions, they prefer to tell stories.
One hundred years ago the Harvard psychologist William James wrote that these experiences are ‘states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect.’
Written in a discursive Middle English, it has inspired several rewrites in modern times, including T.H. White's "The Once and Future King" (1958), the first part of which became the 1963 Disney movie "The Sword in the Stone," and John Steinbeck's "Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights" (1976). Arthurian Glories Renewed
Our opposition generates, in dialectical fashion, discursive expressions of our values and world-view that resonate among us, and, at least ideally, offer the potential of more than talk. Archive 2009-10-01
Divisions between illicit and licit discursive morality conditioned everyday discursive practices via offensive and exclusionary practices.
We know not whether to admire most the genial, fresh, and discursive concinnity of the author, or his playful fancy, weird imagination, and compass of style, at once both objective and subjective .... The Biglow Papers
But as a prescriptive call for eloquence and discursiveness, I wonder. “The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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.
This statement emblematizes the discursive structure of Jazz: If we are mindful of its narrative design, it can take us not only where we want to go today, but where we might need to go tomorrow - in the future, as we read and reread.
Fundamental to indie is the discursive practice of the connoisseur.
This run of pointed paronomasia comes to a head in ‘fetters,’ which gathers to itself the accumulated sense, minted in the interests of others, of discursive abstractions that bind.
Thus, while the episode operates as a scene of instruction for the eponymous protagonist, the particular and necessarily stable sense of things on which Knightley’s instructions are predicated, is ultimately insufficient in dispelling a “social density that is unsortable, unexplainable, and [...] unanswerable to any discursive formation.” Introduction to the Forum on the Box Hill
The circumstantially imposed corrections refer to the discursive move toward offering impartial, even detached, moral judgment.
I should like to have you opposite me in any mood, whether the facetiously discursive, the metaphysically discursive, the personally confidential, or the jadedly CURSIVE and argumentative -- so that the oyster-shells which enclose my being might slowly turn open on their rigid hinges under the radiation, and the critter within loll out his dried-up gills into the circumfused ichor of life, till they grow so fat as not to know themselves again. Familiar Letters of William James I
Justice Tobias said he had not been able to "unearth" any evidence to support Dr Gorman's claims in the largely "argumentative, discursive and irrelevant" material the unrepresented doctor presented to the court, and found in favour of the tribunal. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
I want to argue for a radically discursive understanding of mathematics itself.
A bumpy discursiveness was always his method's mark, even his forte, but here it shows excessive wobble.
The symmetry of scale, the transversality, the pathic non-discursive character of their expansion: all these dimensions remove us from the logic of the excluded middle and reinforce us in our dismissal of the ontological binarism we criticised previously. Planet Atheism
The instrumental and vocal processing is discursive, chatty, and rarely applied to any truly engaging effect.
Data from a focus group yields a construction of sovereignty that is analysed discursively.
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.
This is not least because - curiously for a student of discourse - his own discursive practices give hostages to fortune. The Times Literary Supplement
Eastern Orthodox bioethics is distinct from that of traditional Roman Catholicism in that medical morality is not governed by the casuistical application of a natural law known by all through discursive reason.
Mr. Bantling, who was of rather a slow and a discursive habit, relished a prompt, keen, positive woman, who charmed him by the influence of a shining, challenging eye and a kind of bandbox freshness, and who kindled a perception of raciness in a mind to which the usual fare of life seemed unsalted. The Portrait of a Lady
Puerto and noology, or the distance between the discursive processes of the media and the material process of 'tardy' (i.e. dysfunctional) Spanish justice and the manner in which in the spectacle it has been played out, so that the old ways and law of old Europe and ideas like the rule of law have become expedient and are forgotten so that 'law' simply becomes a servant of the pure functionality of preserving the integrity of the investment of state and capital; Interactivist Info Exchange - A Project of Interactivist.net and Autonomedia.org
Michaelmas, and the New Year, and there hold a kind of discursive symposium on such themes as then and there present themselves. Platform Monologues
The "discursive polity" will emerge from the interactive polity through political struggle. Politics, Planning and the State
In other words, even though some individuals seemed conflicted, or torn between two incompatible discourses, their discursive practices were not found to be neutral.
On a discursive level, writers who utilize Taglish and Pidgin validate these languages as literary mediums of cultural expression.
Fiction might best be conceived in this scenario as a byproduct of our drive to sustain the link that gives us confidence in confession's non-fictionality, or rather, as a curious outgrowth of the discursive relationship between confessant and confessor.
For a human reader a discursive natural language definition is a more sensible format.
It cuts through discursiveness and conceptualization to tell you this is the word you need to use, this is the paint stroke, the turn of your wrist, the perfect next chord. Susan Piver: 3 Reasons to Meditate
The "discursive polity" will emerge from the interactive polity through political struggle. Politics, Planning and the State
Because of this, associative ‘correspondences’ between discursive subjects and incongruent temporal episodes, no matter how unclear, are made possible.
Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism?
This is a persuasive and discursive account of how we got this way. Times, Sunday Times
It continues an old imperialism, unreflectively enjoying its discursive overlordship over South Asia by presenting India and Pakistan as "rivals," as if that is what a billion and a half people think of all the time. Vamsee Juluri: How the West Lost Us: A Critique of Media Coverage of the Mumbai Attacks
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.
If these aids of faith are accepted at all they are often accepted in the early years of life, before catechesis and discursive instruction, before theological reflection and engineered ritual.
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.
One definition is exchanged for another, semantic currency is taken from one discursive economy and converted into the currency of another.
Cohn rejoins by pointing out that such an imagining cannot be discursive, because, for Foucault, discourse must be enforced across a single ontological plane.
Our mind needs to be stable, free from distraction and discursiveness.
The music surrounding this sentiment is gorgeous, a languid ballad in which piano and guitar flirt with a jazzy discursiveness that erupts at various points with a whiplash intensity. The Fiery Furnaces, 'Going Away' From Excess
The texts, which are the objects of sophisticated linguistic and discursive analysis, were produced by middle class literati, not by members of subaltern groups.
Prose is discursive, its energies more diffuse and spread out across space and time.
In speaking the academic discourse of philosophy, the debaters have lost their discursive, if not their literal, accents.
Secondly, knowledge may be called discursive or collative in use; as at times those who know, reason from cause to effect, not in order to learn anew, but wishing to use the knowledge they have. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
It is a long-winded, discursive discussion about benefits and costs, without any clarity at all.
[105] It is one of Dr Owen’s best controversial treatises, being exhaustive, and yet not marked by that discursiveness which is the fault of some of his writings, and bringing into play some of his greatest excellencies as a writer, — his remarkable exegetical talent, his intimate knowledge of Scripture, and mastery of the stores of ecclesiastical history. Life of Dr Owen
This is a persuasive and discursive account of how we got this way. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, while the episode operates as a scene of instruction for the eponymous protagonist, the particular and necessarily stable sense of things on which Knightley’s instructions are predicated, is ultimately insufficient in dispelling a “social density that is unsortable, unexplainable, and [...] unanswerable to any discursive formation.” Introduction to the Forum on the Box Hill
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.
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.
He had this kind of discursive education, but no discipline; and when he went to college, he was at the mercy of any who courted his affection, intoxicated his imagination, and then led him into vice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
Of seminal importance for so-called political readings of Romanticism, as well as for the recent, intense debate over new hermeneutic developments in musicology (to name only two discourses), the question may also be formulated thus: is the telos of aesthetic pleasure that of its critical articulation, its redemption by some kind of discursive intelligence? [ The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant,
One definition is exchanged for another, semantic currency is taken from one discursive economy and converted into the currency of another.
A further important human limitation is that the intellect works discursively.
The signature sonic features of this 'classic' period are Chris Squire's highly melodic and discursive bass playing, enhanced by the sound of his Chris Squire was one of the first rock bass players to successfully adapt electronic guitar effects such as tremolo, phasing and the wah-wah pedal to the instrument. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Through your practice you truly see your mind for what it is and become familiar with the vast landscape of emotions, fantasies, and discursiveness that runs through your head all day. Lodro Rinzler: The Buddhist Gentleman: How to Buy Nice Clothes
Philosophy thus secularizes its theological ambitions and becomes discursively cosmopolitan in the process. Post-Secular Conviviality
They had set a number of fundamental discursive premises that effectively circumscribed much of the subsequent political problematics.
A sign of the broad success of her discursive style is that the least effective essay is the shortest. The Times Literary Supplement
In addition, a discursive analysis of conflict invites therapists to be more intentional, reflexive, and socially responsible in their work.
If we're trying to be completely concept-free, with no discursiveness at all, it's just not going to happen.
The nature of her talent is resoundingly dramatic, distinctly different from the more discursive male laureates.
Ambiguity, discursiveness, leaving you with the feeling that you know less at the end than you did at the beginning -- these are the hallmarks of the films of David Lynch. Sing Along With David Lynch on 'Dark Night of the Soul'
Besides, if you really are most interested in sociopolitical or moral interrogation in the first place, why spend your time trying to whip poems and novels into some suitably discursive shape? Saying Something
Corthell concludes that Donne constructs a ‘recusant subject of satire,’ a subject, that is, whose equivocalness is both a response to and a production of the discontinuous discursive formations available to the Elizabethan satirist.
This assumption of a given unacquired intuitive and revelatory source of true judgments transcending discursive reason is both a logical and an empirical imperative.
Phonic and emphatic before actively phatic, making noise before contact, the monosyllabic sigh at the core of all Romantic sonority is a phonic surge before it can be coded as a monosyllabic signal in some discursive circuit with the Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
For this purpose, we adopt a critical discursive perspective that allows us to discover how specific conceptions of strategy work are reproduced and legitimized in organizational strategizing.
I believe that we can understand ceremony as a cosmogony in both discursive and performative senses.
It could be on any subject they chose, and the only requirement was that the essay had to be discursive, that is to say, they had to formulate a thesis, develop an argument, defend it, and draw a conclusion," he writes in "Crisis on Campus," a manifesto for overhauling higher education. Reading, Writing, Radical Change
Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism?
There is nothing in a man that will not dispute against this captivity of itself: innumerable proud reasonings and imaginations are set up against it; and when the mind and discursive, notional part of the soul is overpowered with the truth, yet the practical principle of the will and the affections will exceedingly tumultuate against it. The Sermons of John Owen
Laws are legitimate only if they are in tune with the opinions, values, and norms generated discursively in civil society.
Bradley 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.
In the broader circles of art historical discussion today the discursive covers of predetermined canonicity and aesthetic grandeur no longer have the cachet they once did, hence their ideological usefulness has partly dissipated.
The style is discursive, not doctrinal; persuasive, not proclamatory.
An internal scapegoat, by virtue of perceived ideological affinity with the enemy, then becomes the long lost discursive partner that our unpunishable, silent opponents can never be.
His discursive poetry touches many factors, thus transforming a linear story into a mosaic of elements.
Within many anti-colonial and civil rights struggles, those in control of discursive practices have often silenced voices of alterity in order to unify a people in the struggle against colonial, hegemonic orders.
It's in keeping with the rest of this discursive, stimulating book that Kermode leaves the reader with such a provocative, rhetorical question.
This highly original, thought-provoking and discursive counterblast against the hypocrisy and cant be served up to the [US ]public should be watched by anyone with any sympathy with that country's exploited and oppressed.
I suggest in the course of the book that certain interpretations of reason and clear understanding as discursive rationality have damaged ethical thought itself and distorted our conceptions of it.
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.
Derrida himself is interested in the tension created between discursive play and history.
Ange admits to disliking discursive, essayistic language in poetry (and I totally agree that such anecdotal reportage is almost always tiresome), but I am not so sure that the cited poets, whom she dislikes, actually make a habit of indulging in such asensual, abstract writing at all. Writing and Failure (Part 7) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
As we have seen above, while there do occur forms of expression that are contradictory, the contradiction is often removed by the device of “unsaying” or canceling out, which propels the discourse into a non-discursive realm. Mysticism
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.
There is now a considerable body of theoretical and discursive work on biography as an artistic form.
The more lengthy and discursive notes of the original forces give way to a short, punchy, military style, often devoid of emotion.
Another related discursive tendency is the use of satiric irony, especially sarcasm.
Using this analytical scheme, I argued that Islamic modernism was an outcome of the discursive context of the ideological contentions in the second part of the nineteenth-century Egypt.
Since the state of a discursive formation is not constant, it can be apprehended only by means of inquiry into specific instances or conjunctures.
Rather, leaders are always immanent in political processes where power appears, retrospectively as it were, to illuminate the discursive field of contestation and its victors.
Many of these arguments from the early 1980s now appear rhetorically overextended, with too many unsubstantiated leaps across discursive spans.
The nature and constituents of citizenship turns out to be at the center of debate on welfare provisions and delivery in these new discursive modes of. social policy.
Because of this, associative ‘correspondences’ between discursive subjects and incongruent temporal episodes, no matter how unclear, are made possible.
They are Dennis McEldowney's 'Publishing, patronage, literary magazines' and John Thomson's discursive bibliography, both in the Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English, ed. Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand
The style of presentation is indeed somewhat discursive, especially in the citing and refuting of opposite opinions, and runs often into unprofitable distinctions and splittings of ideas, but the substantial contents are in the main so sound and excellent, that the almost autocratical authority enjoyed by Christian Ethics. Volume I.��History of Ethics.
In "My Jerry Saltz Problem," a spiritedly discursive philippic in the New Criterion about the changing nature of art criticism, James Panero articulates how disgruntled print journalists and traditional art critics feel about new media such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. Sharon L. Butler: Jerry Saltz's Burden
The paternalistic tradition thus constructs a simulacrum of male discursive empowerment which multiplies locutionary authority while eradicating perlocutionary agency.
What emerges might not be as overt as anger, jealousy or desire; it might be a subtle undercurrent of discursiveness.
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.
William James used it to describe states of insight unplumbed by the discursive intellect involving illuminations and revelations that, while inarticulate, are full of significance and importance.
Mr. Bantling, who was of a rather slow and discursive habit, relished a prompt, keen, positive woman, who charmed him with the spectacle of a brilliant eye and a kind of bandbox neatness, and who kindled a perception of raciness in a mind to which the usual fare of life seemed unsalted. Chapter XX
Of the discursive chapters, Duck's review of Trinitarian language in English-language hymnody is probably the most illuminating.
'Faulkner's books are extraordinarily discursive and complex, not "plotted" in the ordinary sense but seeming rather to have grown according to their own internal dynamics, resulting in many sub-plots and cul de sacs. The Private World of William Faulkner
The rules of grammar are intended to analyse the structure underlying this discursive order.
Much of the modern study of El Greco might be described as oscillating between two extremes - either a sharp focus on the attribution of his works, or a discursive handling of the historiography of the artist's personality and image.
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.
Shelley's description of the East in Alastor, where he discursively depopulates and reduces to ruins the entirety of Eastern territories in order to enable a reframing of the East as pre-modern space situation within Notes on 'The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece'
For instance, in Ginsberg's Journals for the mid-fifties, his concern to develop long syllabic lines, using the prosaic and the discursive approaches, clearly leads to the incantatory effects of his most celebrated poetry.
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
We're in the same world,the same linguistic,the same discursive the same theological world as the Gospel of John.
The images of China have contributed discursively as the symbol of cultural utopia to construct the experiences of Western modernity.
In intuition, discursive reasoning of data is not singled out as a special phase.
The absence of run-on, the asyndeton of folk poetry may bear some relationship to Joyce's inability to develop a running line, the non-discursive quality of his writing.
It is an instrument in the service of a global artistic project, frequently subordinated to a narrative, or, at least, discursive aim; if it submits a priori to some formal rule that constrains the contents and, in a certain way, creates them, the page layout is generally elaborated from a semantically determined content, where the breakdowns has already assured discretization in successive enunciations known as panels. Archive 2008-06-01
Kondo distinguishes between western forms of orientalism, autoexoticisms by Asian subjects, and counter-orientalisms that subvert western modes of apprehending discursively produced Asian identities.
This is not least because - curiously for a student of discourse - his own discursive practices give hostages to fortune. The Times Literary Supplement
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.
Is the benefit purely economic, or do they also gain discursive currency?
Not all of which moves towards discursive literacy, nor is it meant to be captured solely by semiotics of language and linguistic systems.
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.
In the discourse of policy makers, European cinema is a part of the discursive construction of a European identity.
The "discursive polity" will emerge from the interactive polity through political struggle. Politics, Planning and the State
Complete is a surrogate superlative, the latest tactic, a piece of discursive dexterity in the sometimes tedious Messi or Ronaldo debate -- presented like it was some kind of incontestable fact. SI.com
The rules of grammar are intended to analyse the structure underlying this discursive order.
Both in its structure and topography, this half of the book privileges delay, wandering, discursiveness, and ultimately suspense through a proliferation of places.
This is the classic entanglement of the discursive with the figurative mode of representation - which may beguile and disturb the writer.
Like Socrates, Russell saw philosophy as spoken and conversational, rather than written and discursive.
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.
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.
I know and use “explicate”, I know “trope”, I have a vague sense of both “quotidian” and “discursive”, and “paratactic” is a complete mystery. Waldo Jaquith - 5 words my poetry professor used during today’s lecture.
I mildly call the discussion "discursive," though it would be fair in one or two instances to dub the piece frankly a medley. Platform Monologues
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.
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.
Some will call it eccentric in its discursiveness: a better word would be concentric. Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life by Richard Cohen – review
a rambling discursive book
On the contrary, Jacobi had been forced to use the term, and to oppose it to reason, only because the philosophers had pre-empted the latter term, and had unduly restricted it to mean the kind of discursive conceptualization that abstracts from real things and is ultimately irrelevant to judgments of existence. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
There's no room for that kind of discursive, descriptive run-on on the Web, where NYT > Home Page
Real time happenings that cannot be commodified or sold, retain their status as ‘art’ only so long as they retain discursive support.
The strength of her faith in the power of love is both the blessing and the curse of her character and the core of Malick's difficult, discursive epic.
The editors invite submissions for a new online edited collection exploring discursive, visual, and other communicative features.
It was hence possible to con - ceive a comprehensive doctrinal learning such that, by its means, man reasons and discusses in the three arts called discursive (sermocinales), but at the same time endeavors to learn about things through the other four arts called real (reales). WORK
Hemingway's short sentences derive their power from their revolt against earlier, more discursive styles.
For instance, in Ginsberg's Journals for the mid-fifties, his concern to develop long syllabic lines, using the prosaic and the discursive approaches, clearly leads to the incantatory effects of his most celebrated poetry.
Mark Liberman of Language Log has an enjoyably discursive post on the use and misuse of the word fakir, properly 'a Muslim religious mendicant' (it's from Arabic faqi:r 'poor') but with an extended meaning 'Hindu ascetic or religious mendicant, especially one who performs feats of magic or endurance' (in the words of the AHD definition); when I asked my wife what image she associated with the word, she said "a guy lying on a bed of nails," which fits the second sense exactly and I think would be the most common answer if you took a poll. Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
Beckett shows what it is like to be aware in a single moment, rather than drifting in the slipstream of culturally mediated discursive patterns of thought.

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