discourse in English

noun

1

written or spoken communication or debate.

the language of political discourse

synonyms: discussion, conversation, talk, dialogue, conference, debate, consultation, parley, powwow, chat, confab, confabulation, colloquy

verb

1

speak or write authoritatively about a topic.

she could discourse at great length on the history of Europe

synonyms: hold forth, expatiate, pontificate, talk, give a talk, give a speech, lecture, sermonize, preach, spout, sound off, perorate

noun

discussion, conversation, talk, dialogue, conference, debate, consultation, parley, powwow, chat, confab, confabulation, colloquy
essay, treatise, dissertation, paper, study, critique, monograph, disquisition, tract, lecture, address, speech, oration, sermon, homily
discussion, treatment
preaching, sermon

verb

hold forth, converse, talk about
hold forth, expatiate, pontificate, talk, give a talk, give a speech, lecture, sermonize, preach, spout, sound off, perorate
converse, talk, speak, debate, confer, consult, parley, chat
converse
talk about, discuss
hold forth, dissertate

Use "discourse" in a sentence

1. To conclude, the function of discourse markers consists in three aspects: discourse constraint, discourse organization and metalanguage .

2. Special Public Discourse

3. How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse?

4. Discourse provides tagging functionality.

5. When Giving a Discourse.

6. There's no discourse anymore.

7. epigrammatic discourse or expression.

8. 32 Special Public Discourse

9. 9 epigrammatic discourse or expression.

10. Discourse which underestimates the degree of existing knowledge becomes boring; discourse which overestimates it becomes incomprehensible.

11. African Discourse on Africanization and Decolonization

12. The discourse “Peace —Can it Last?”

13. The discourse has abstracted Arabism to …

14. Bakhtin identified three basic varieties of double voice discourse: (a) unidirectional, (b) vari-directional, and (c) active discourse.

15. The choices here relate to discourse topic.

16. In legal discourse causation is particularly important.

17. Paper argues that discourse dimensions should be brought into collocational and Colligational descriptions of words that have discourse-managing functions.

18. Less reciprocal discourse will also activate schemata.

19. 13 A discourse on medieval morality plays?

20. 18 Ditto for your discourse on football.

21. 7 We'll discourse on the subject tonight.

22. After the discourse, a lively discussion ensued.

23. Candidates should engage in serious political discourse.

24. 27 The topic framework consists of elements derivable from the physical context and from the discourse domain of any discourse fragment.

25. I heard the professor's discourse on English lexicography.

26. Aspectual Viewpoints, Speech Act Functions and Discourse Structure

27. 12 Less reciprocal discourse will also activate schemata.

28. By Aping the discourse of nineteenth-century materialistic …

29. We've turned our discourse into a cage match.

30. 6 Candidates should engage in serious political discourse.

31. 20 Candidates should engage in serious political discourse.

32. Sweet discourse makes short days and nights. 

33. In spoken discourse, there is not the visual prompt of paragraph-initial line indentation to indicate a division in the discourse structure.

34. 1 Sweet discourse makes short days and nights. 

35. Ah! You can make that lute discourse, I perceive.

36. Explicit presidential discourse on policy issues was exceedingly rare.

37. There are, moreover, infelicitous instances of any discourse type.

38. Judith now entered into a desultory discourse with Deerslayer.

39. Request PDF Discourse, Deficit and Identity: Aboriginality, the Race Paradigm and the Language of Representation in Contemporary Australia Deficit discourse is expressed in a …

40. No amount of discourse is sadness for the prelude.

41. Barbershops are also places of social interaction and public discourse.

42. Avowing violence: Foucault and Derrida on politics, discourse and meaning

43. 4 No amount of discourse is sadness for the prelude.

44. 3 She embarked on a discourse about the town's origins.

45. Rational discourse on public policy is vital to a democracy.

46. 1 Gates responds with a lengthy discourse on deployment strategy.

47. And his "discourse" is growing up among the anfractuous relations.

48. 2 Gates responds with a lengthy discourse on deployment strategy.

49. Discourse 8: The Fourth Chapter Begins – The Avataras of God

50. He was hoping for some lively political discourse at the meeting.