discourse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English discours, borrowed from Middle French discours (“conversation, speech”), from Latin discursus (“the act of running about”), from Latin discurrō (“run about”), from dis- (“apart”) + currō (“run”). Spelling modified by influence of Middle French cours (“course”). Doublet of discursus.
Inflected forms:
form: discourses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: discours
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: discourses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: discoursing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: discoursed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: discoursed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: discours
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Verbal exchange, conversation.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
examples: UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms
UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew.
And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe,
Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood: […]
Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room. At first I could not make much sense of what I heard; for the discourse of Louisa Eshton and Mary Ingram, who sat nearer to me, confused the fragmentary sentences that reached me at intervals.
gloss: Expression in words, either speech or writing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
gloss: A conversation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It ſeems, the Minds of theſe People are ſo taken up with intenſe Speculations, that they neither can ſpeak, nor attend to the Diſcourſes of others, without being rouzed by ſome external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which reaſon, thoſe Perſons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole) in their Family, as one of their Domeſticks, nor ever walk abroad or make Viſits without him.
gloss: A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
gloss: Any rational expression, reason.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Sure he that made us with such large discourse, / Looking before and after, gave us not / That capability and godlike reason / To rust in us unused.
difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason
gloss: An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Furthermore, it should be recalled from the previous chapter that criminological discourse of the 1930s deemed every woman a potential criminal, implicitly including the domestic woman.
But equally important to the emergence of uniquely African-American queer discourses is the refusal of African-American movements for liberation to address adequately issues of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Brown University's Friday Night Jews (FNJ) [...] began as an informal Shabbat dinner gathering in 2016, as a space for Jewish students who were feeling fed up with Hillel’s limitations regarding Israel/Palestine discourse, after the Brown/RISD Hillel rescinded sponsorship of a film screening by the Israeli nonprofit Zochrot, an organization that educates Jewish Israelis about the Nakba.
gloss: Lengthy, often heated debate over controversial subject matter, particularly within fandom and activist spaces. Sometimes rendered as a proper noun with the definite article (i.e. "the Discourse").
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: We all know — or know now — the Internet meme known as “The Discourse,” which became popular on the social media site Tumblr in April of last year.
Nobody will ever know if Gene Roddenberry would hate DS9 had he lived to see it, but the controversy was patient zero for the arguments that define modern Star Trek discourse.
...needless to say, the small-scale nature of these controversies provides a window into who the true 'snowflakes' are when it comes to Doctor Who discourse.
gloss: Dealing; transaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse / Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how / We got the victory.
gloss: To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To write or speak formally and at length.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To debate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
pos: verb
examples: While he discours'd on heaven's mysterious
The world's original, and nature's cause
gloss: To produce or emit (musical sounds).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Hamlet. […] Will you play upon this pipe? […] It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumbs, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.
Music discoursed on that melodious instrument, a Jew's harp, keeps the elfin women away from the hunter, because the tongue of the instrument is of steel.
Dahl's Silver Cornet Band, augmented for the occasion to the grand total of fourteen pieces, discoursed sweet—well, discoursed music; let us not be too particular as to the quality of it.
Synonyms: norm
Overton window
Related words: course
discursive
essay
Derived words: counterdiscourse
cyberdiscourse
direct discourse
discoursal
discourse analysis
discourse analyst
discourseless
discourse marker
discoursive
disk horse
domain of discourse
free indirect discourse
indirect discourse
macrodiscourse
metadiscourse
microdiscourse
mode of discourse
sandwich discourse
universe of discourse
window of discourse
discourser
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: gesprek
lang: Bulgarian
word: разговор
roman: razgovor
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 交談 /交谈
roman: jiāotán
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 談話 /谈话
roman: tánhuà
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 會話 /会话
roman: huìhuà
lang: Czech
word: rozprava
lang: Danish
word: samtale
lang: Danish
word: debat
lang: Dutch
word: conversatie
lang: Dutch
word: gesprek
lang: Dutch
word: gedachtewisseling
lang: Faroese
word: samrøða
lang: Faroese
word: orðaskifti
lang: Finnish
word: diskurssi
lang: Finnish
word: keskustelu
lang: Finnish
word: ajatustenvaihto
lang: French
word: conversation
lang: French
word: discours
lang: Galician
word: discurso
lang: Galician
word: discusión
lang: German
word: Diskurs
lang: German
word: Gespräch
lang: German
word: Debatte
lang: Greek
word: συνομιλία
roman: synomilía
lang: Hebrew
word: שִׂיחַ
roman: síaẖ
lang: Italian
word: discussione
lang: Japanese
word: 会話
roman: kaiwa
lang: Japanese
word: 対話
roman: taiwa
lang: Japanese
word: 会談
roman: kaidan
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: diskurs
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: diskurs
lang: Polish
word: konwersacja
lang: Portuguese
word: discussão
lang: Romanian
word: discurs
lang: Romanian
word: conversație
lang: Russian
word: разгово́р
roman: razgovór
lang: Russian
word: бесе́да
roman: beséda
lang: Russian
word: ди́скурс
roman: dískurs
lang: Russian
word: диску́рс
roman: diskúrs
lang: Spanish
word: discurso
lang: Spanish
word: conversación
lang: Spanish
word: plática
lang: Spanish
word: platicada
lang: Spanish
word: coloquio
lang: Spanish
word: proseo
lang: Swedish
word: diskurs
lang: Turkish
word: mübahase
lang: Turkish
word: tartışma