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discourse English

Meaning discourse meaning

What does discourse mean?
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discourse Noun

— Discourse is conversation. — A discourse is a long formal discussion about a topic, either through talking or in writing. — A discourse is any reasonable expression or reason.

discourse Verb

— If someone discourses, they talk or converse with someone else; they make conversation. — If someone discourses, they write or talk formally and for a good length of time.

discourse

— noun extended verbal expression in speech or writing — verb (= talk about, discuss) to consider or examine in speech or writing The author talks about the different aspects of this question The class discussed Dante's 'Inferno' — verb (= dissertate) talk at length and formally about a topic The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England — verb (= converse) carry on a conversation — noun (= sermon) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) — noun (= discussion, treatment) 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

Synonyms discourse synonyms

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discourse English » English

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Topics discourse topics

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Word

Conjugation discourse conjugation

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discourse · verb

Examples discourse examples

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Movie subtitles

You could hardly doubt the purport of my discourse. My intentions mean too much to be mistaken.
And I would fain hear some discourse between you twain.
This is no time to discourse, so God save me.
This is no time to discourse.
O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer.
Alas, how is't with you, that you do bend your eye on vacancy, and with the incorporal air do hold discourse?
After reasoned discourse, the venture is launched.
Kid, your patriotic discourse won't work on me.
Men should be seated when having a discourse.
That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame.
Govern these ventages with your fingers, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.
Well, now that's a long discourse.
He was very interested in women, but in fact we don't know if his Discourse on Love is apocryphal.
Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame - and start not so wildly from my affair.
But not less than one dollar. Spiritual wise. Well, now that's a long discourse.
We want a class-based discourse. you want a personal story?
We have always maintened the best relations. by the way of ecclesiastical discourse.
No, just a discourse in jungle law.
The monologue is his preferred mode of discourse.
That is the point. It is no time to discourse, so Christ save me.
Put your discourse into some frame, and make me a wholesome answer. - Sir, I cannot.
Alas, how is it with you, that you do bend your eye on vacancy. and with the incorporal air do hold discourse? - O gentle son, say whereon do you look.
And I would fain hear some discourse between you tway.
This is no time to discourse, so God save me!
Who here, in this congregation, listening to this discourse. will soon be visited by this covenant of darkness?
But still the house affairs would draw her thence which ever as she could with haste dispatch she'd come again and with a greedy ear, devour up my discourse.
Drunk and speak parrot and squabble, swagger, swear and discourse fustian with one's own shadow?
Enough, enough of such discourse!
To the Russians our swords shall give discourse!
The poverty of their discourse reflects the poverty of their lives.
We got a war, it's the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving a problem.
That sort of mixture of utopianism on one hand and Puritanism on the other. which is only another kind of utopianism. which has given us the kind of messy discourse that we have today.
But you can hardly doubt the object of my discourse, however your feminine delicacy may lead you to dissemble.
I simply thought it would be polite to say hello but clearly, you don't think I'm capable of conducting any kind of pleasant discourse without some kind of nefarious ulterior motive.

News and current affairs

Frequently enough, it is citizens digging at the margins of the discourse - pursuing such theories - who report on news that the mainstream media ignores.
In essence, the form of government we seek within Germany and across Europe is built on a sense of moral discourse and moral decision-making rather than on the supposedly eternal truth of some abstract political concept.
The imposition of a monolithic religious discourse on society has made liberal values attractive to Iranians.
The language Haider and many leaders of his party have used over the years is informed by the same racist and anti-Semitic discourse that gave birth to Nazism: in the specific Austrian context, it is violently anti-Slav as well as anti-Turkish.
Simply put, Keynesian stimulus does not necessarily entail more government debt, as popular discourse seems continually to assume.
But explaining that to block thinkers will never have the impact of a real connection to the multi-faceted discourse that is actually taking place on the other side.
As a result, various political groups associated with the Solidarity trade union movement have, since Communism's fall, aspired to represent the political right, confusing the terms of political discourse.
Although Krugman invented his discourse for an American readership, it perfectly fits the British case as well.
Only then will productive discourse - the kind that does not end in government shutdown - be possible.
This narrative of decline and pessimism underlies much of today's environmental discourse, and is often formulated in a simple fashion: by 2030, we will need two planets to sustain us, owing to higher living standards and population growth.
With the eurozone stuck in a seemingly never-ending recession, the idea that growth-enhancing investment is crucial for a sustainable recovery has become deeply entrenched in public discourse.
After all, climate change, energy security, and demographic challenges have been part of the European discourse for many years; now that discourse is starting to be shared by other parts of the world.
Thus, it is now subject to the discourse of economic orthodoxy, which, in insisting that all debts be paid to the penny, ignores that public spending is also an engine of growth.
When the supposedly most enlightened and liberal of those constituencies resorts to illiberal discourse and intolerant measures, tendencies toward bigotry and ideological irrationality are reinforced.
In the process, conspiracy theories are pulled from the margins of public discourse, where they were generally consigned in the past, and sometimes into the very heart of politics.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric from the political extremes has fed into mainstream political discourse.
The official discourse is entrenched in statism and centralism, with growing disregard for democratic principles and procedures.
The debate about the EU is too ingrained in British discourse.
By comparison with the late 1990's, however, the space for political discourse has undeniably narrowed, crushing expectations that the country would continue on a liberalizing course.
Despite the surface diversity of programming, the monolithic control of political discourse has changed little since the 1950's.
Where can and should religion and ethics contribute to our political discourse?
Such a discourse, if clearly articulated, would be understood and could be endorsed by many, if not by all.

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