Crossword clues for discourse
discourse
- An extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
- Extended verbal expression in speech or writing
- An address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
- Conversation
- Verbal expression in woman's series of lectures?
- Verbal communication one's used in Dutch classes?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discourse \Dis*course"\, n. [L. discursus a running to and fro, discourse, fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. F. discours. See Course.]
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The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.]
Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason.
--South.Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.
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Conversation; talk.
In their discourses after supper.
--Shak.Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse.
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The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse.
--Shak. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
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Dealing; transaction. [Obs.]
Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how We got the victory.
--Beau. & Fl.
Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Discoursed; p. pr. & vb. n. Discoursing.]
To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [Obs.] ``Have sense or can discourse.''
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To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
--Shak. To relate something; to tell.
--Shak.To treat of something in writing and formally.
Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. t.
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To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.]
The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book.
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To utter or give forth; to speak.
It will discourse most eloquent music.
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To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.]
I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it.
--Evelyn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "process of understanding, reasoning, thought," from French discours, from Latin discursus "a running about," in Late Latin "conversation," from past participle stem of discurrere "run about," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + currere "to run" (see current (adj.)). Sense of "formal speech or writing" is first recorded 1580s.
1540s, from discourse (n.). Related: Discoursed; discoursing.\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable archaic English) Verbal exchange, conversation. 2 (context uncountable English) expression in words, either speech or writing. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse. 2 (context intransitive English) To write or speak formally and at length. 3 (context obsolete transitive English) To debate. 4 To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
WordNet
n. extended verbal expression in speech or writing
an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) [syn: sermon, preaching]
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" [syn: discussion, treatment]
v. to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The article covered all the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'" [syn: talk about, discuss]
carry on a conversation [syn: converse]
talk or hold forth formally about a topic; "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England" [syn: dissertate]
Wikipedia
Discourse is a use of written or spoken communication.
Discourse or discourses may also refer to:
Discourse (from Latin discursus, "running to and from") denotes written and spoken communications such as:
- In semantics and discourse analysis: Discourse is a conceptual generalization of conversation within each modality and context of communication.
- The totality of codified language (vocabulary) used in a given field of intellectual enquiry and of social practice, such as legal discourse, medical discourse, religious discourse, et cetera.
- In the work of Michel Foucault, and that of the social theoreticians he inspired: discourse describes "an entity of sequences, of signs, in that they are enouncements (énoncés)", statements in conversation.
As discourse, an enouncement (statement) is not a unit of semiotic signs, but an abstract construct that allows the semiotic signs to assign meaning, and so communicate specific, repeatable communications to, between, and among objects, subjects, and statements. Therefore, a discourse is composed of semiotic sequences (relations among signs that communicate meaning) between and among objects, subjects, and statements.
The term "discursive formation" conceptually describes the regular communications (written and spoken) that produce such discourses, such conversations. As a philosopher, Michel Foucault applied the discursive formation in the analyses of large bodies of knowledge, such as political economy and natural history.
In the first sense-usage (semantics and discourse analysis), the term discourse is studied in corpus linguistics, the study of language expressed in corpora (samples) of "real world" text. In the second sense (the codified language of a field of enquiry) and in the third sense (a statement, un énoncé), the analysis of a discourse examines and determines the connections among language and structure and agency.
Moreover, because a discourse is a body of text meant to communicate specific data, information, and knowledge, there exist internal relations in the content of a given discourse; likewise, there exist external relations among discourses. As such, a discourse does not exist per se (in itself), but is related to other discourses, by way of inter-discursivity; therefore, in the course of intellectual enquiry, the discourse among researchers features the questions and answers of What is ...? and What is not. ..., conducted according to the meanings (denotation and connotation) of the concepts (statements) used in the given field of enquiry, such as anthropology, ethnography, and sociology; cultural studies and literary theory; the philosophy of science and feminism.
Discourse is an open source Internet forum and mailing list management software application founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron. Discourse received funding from First Round Capital and Greylock Partners.
From a usability perspective, Discourse breaks with existing forum software by including features recently popularized by large social networks, such as infinite scrolling, live updates, oneboxing, expanding links, and drag and drop attachments. However, the stated goals of the project are social rather than technical, to improve online discussion quality through improved forum software.
The application is written in JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2. PostgreSQL is the supported database management system. It also uses the Ember.js framework .
Usage examples of "discourse".
Discourse and humble Advise for our Gratious Queene Elizabeth, her most Excellent Majestie to peruse and consider, as concerning the needful Reformation of the Vulgar Kalender for the civile yeres and daies accompting, or verifyeng, according to the tyme truely spent.
Discourse and humble Advise for our Gratious Queen Elizabeth, her most Excellent Majestie to peruse and consider, as concerning the needful Reformation of the Vulgar Kalendar for the civile yeres and daies accompting, or verifyeng, according to the tyme trewly spent.
Bishop Alcock, who was learned in all local lore, as well as in all ecclesiastical research, again discoursed on the celestial wonders brought to mother earth, and instanced the example of St.
I was necessitated to preach a discourse on almsgiving, specially for the benefit of our own poor, a thing never before known in the parish.
Highton discourse, Kaliga had deliberately given a direct answer, a great insult among Aristos, but he assumed Jai had neither the savvy nor intelligence to know.
Fakredeen shot a glance at Eva and Baroni, as if to remind them of the tenor of the discourse for which he had prepared them.
We certainly do recognize the need to insist on the creative powers of virtuality, but this Bergsonian discourse is insufficient for us insofar as we also need to insist on the reality of the being created, its ontological weight, and the institutions that structure the world, creating necessity out of contingency.
Nor was the charity of Mahomet confined to the tribe of Koreish, or the precincts of Mecca: on solemn festivals, in the days of pilgrimage, he frequented the Caaba, accosted the strangers of every tribe, and urged, both in private converse and public discourse, the belief and worship of a sole Deity.
The confusion of public and private spheres in the pages of the press is echoed by an equally sinister confusion of literary discourse and the transmission of information, and it is here that Kraus performs the Cerberean function of satire by seeking to protect the imagination from rival and encroaching forms of discourse.
Slender, his face looking almost youthful despite the woolly gray above, casually dressed in a loose robe and sandals, this high councillor of the Southern Coagency had received him like an equal and discoursed easily, affably.
He let it fall open in his hands and a discourse on dactylography faced him.
In the temple of Mecca, three Charegites or enthusiasts discoursed of the disorders of the church and state: they soon agreed, that the deaths of Ali, of Moawiyah, and of his friend Amrou, the viceroy of Egypt, would restore the peace and unity of religion.
Kundera, the strategies by which Soviet discourse imposes its centralization and uniformity on Czech history are those that structuralist and deconstructionist discourses impose upon chosen texts.
Wilson, casting his eyes on Denbigh, whose back was towards him in discourse with Mr.
As I advanced along the bank opposed to them, I was further amazed to hear them discoursing quite equably together, so that it was impossible to say on the face of it whether a catastrophe had occurred, or the great heat of a cloudless summer day had tempted an eccentric couple to seek for coolness in the directest fashion, without absolute disregard to propriety.