What is "discursive"

Usage examples of "discursive".

Jonson combines this modified Aristophanic pattern with the exploitation of particular jargons and general discursive models.

Rather than focussing on words and sentences in isolation, and assuming that these have stable meanings by themselves, it will examine them from a relational perspective, and, in particular, in relation to the larger discursive structures, or framing discourses, within which we interpret these texts.

Sacy and Renan were instances of the way Orientalism fashioned, respectively, a body of texts and a philologically rooted process by which the Orient took on a discursive identity that made it unequal with the West.

The whole of the Sherard Blaw school of discursive drama suggests, to my mind, Early Victorian furniture in a travelling circus.

He contends that, viewed with external neutrality, the discursive practices themselves provide a meaningless space of rule-governed transformations in which statements, subjects, objects, concepts and so forth are taken by those involved to be meaningful.

From concepts a priori, however (in discursive knowledge), it is impossible that intuitive certainty, that is, evidence, should ever arise, however apodictically certain the judgment may otherwise seem to be.

The havoc he managed to wreak among his belongings in that time would scarce be believed should I set it down—not even a single boot properly treed—and his appearance when I was enabled to recover him (my client having behaved most handsomely on the eve of his departure for Spain) being such that I passed him in the hotel lounge without even a nod—climbing-boots, with trousers from his one suit of boating flannels, a blazered golfing waistcoat, his best morning-coat with the wide braid, a hunting-stock and a motoring-cap, with his beard more than discursive, as one might say, than I had ever seen it.

Foucault's exterior approach, his bracketing of truth and meaning, his confinement to "mute" statements (monological), his "happy positivism"these are all maneuvers of the Right-Hand path, applied not to the bone-crunching concreteness of physical-social realities but to the exterior, material, archaeological remnants of discursive practices: language looked at from the outside as a rule-governed system.

The time when this was feasible is already over, as may be seen from the fact that ever greater masses of men wish to determine their behaviour according to their own ideas, and as they see no alternative in the civilization around them but to form ideas by means of the discursive reason which inevitably leads to agnosticism, they determine their actions accordingly.

At this moment, for example, I am trying to understand something very abstract indeed-the fading, vanishing of tasted reality as we try to grasp it with the discursive reason.

No discursive passages, no editorialization: you move through the story, perceive the events of the story, as a participant.

According to the hermeneuticists, who describe the phenomenon from the inside [Left-Hand], nondiscursive practices 'govern' human action by setting up a horizon of intelligibility in which only certain discursive practices and their objects and subjects make sense.

His (early) archaeology of actual existence was a neostructuralist reworking of the traditional structuralist's analysis of possible types of experience, but it still placed emphasis on the exterior surfaces and structures of discursive formations and the transformation rules (of rarefication and exclusion) that individuated serious speech acts.