Synonym: address, converse, expound, lecture, preach, talk. Similar words: discount, discourage, discouraged, course, of course, in due course, in the course of, nurse. Meaning: ['dɪskɔːs] 
n. 1. extended verbal expression in speech or writing 2. an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) 3. an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic. v. 1. to consider or examine in speech or writing 2. carry on a conversation 3. talk at length and formally about a topic.
n. 1. extended verbal expression in speech or writing 2. an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) 3. an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic. v. 1. to consider or examine in speech or writing 2. carry on a conversation 3. talk at length and formally about a topic. 
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61 In other words, only the paragraph structure of stretches of discourse about individual, primarily human, characters is being discussed.
62 Recent linguistic work on characterisation has used the principles and analytical techniques of pragmatics and discourse analysis to considerable effect.
63 These terms will be used to indicate relationships between discourse participants and elements in the discourse.
64 The more recent studies of discourse analysis have captured the tones which people use to talk of others.
65 Yet this structuring of discourse along the patterns of dialogue has an effect at the most detailed, grammatical level.
66 Furthermore, there are good grounds for assuming that the distinction between sentence processing and discourse processing is by no means a clear one.
67 At first then, it would seem that this ordering of information is another instance of a formal connection between sentences in discourse.
68 Two dichotomies are helpful in examining this area of discourse.
69 For discourse analysis, the most important idea to come out of the field of Artificial Intelligence is that of knowledge schemata.
70 The main purpose of Levin's article, however, is to reclaim Debord for the aesthetic discourse of avant-garde cinema.
71 We have introduced some basic components which would be required in a characterisation of the topic framework for any discourse fragment.
72 Should I launch into a discourse on why I didn't value male above female children?
73 How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse?
74 Client purchasers require that this be translated back into everyday discourse.
74 Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
75 But cognitive theories' dominance within psychological discourse induces many feminists to recapitulate these theories, overlooking their subtler gender biases.
76 Furthermore, we should have a shared understanding of the rules of discourse about such subjects.
77 Many studies have aimed at typologies of code switching which classify switches according to their function in discourse.
78 And because the domestic style was unsuited to amplified discourse, the domestic rules of politeness also went by the board.
79 This unity enabled the Alliance to intervene into the discourse of municipal politics in a skilful and decisive manner.
80 The boundary between conversation and other discourse types is a fuzzy one, and there are many intermediate cases.
81 The discourse analyst attempts to discover regularities in his data and to describe them.
82 Academic, or theoretical, discourse is not privileged but is instead a form of accounting which uses abstraction to illuminate.
83 He provides a careful analysis of the relationship between the functional and structural characteristics of different types of discourse.
84 It is exactly this latter view of the nature of reference which the discourse analyst has to appeal to.
85 Blackwell's radical ideas point to the tentative beginnings of a discourse on active female sexuality.
86 Thus, in discourse analysis, reference is treated as an action on the part of the speaker / writer.
87 This book explains the relevant theory and related it to classroom activities designed to improve students' discourse skills.
88 Political discourse, in this view, is full of manipulation, deception, and untruths whose object is political advantage.
89 They neglect the efforts of those who have regarded scientific and religious discourse as complementary rather than mutually exclusive.
90 We shall examine an extract from conversational discourse containing a longish paratone which illustrates the features just described.
More similar words: discount, discourage, discouraged, course, of course, in due course, in the course of, nurse, by yourself, disc, discuss, disclose, discussion, discharging, discrimination, scope, scorn, score, burst, oversee, telescope, fiscal, endorse, diverse, reverse, pursuit, burst in, in this case, burst into, coup.