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单词 discourse
释义
discourse
Word forms: discourses, discoursing , discoursed pronunciation note:   The noun is pronounced (dɪskɔːʳs ). The verb is pronounced (dɪskɔːʳs ).
1. uncountable noun
Discourse is spoken or written communication between people, especially serious discussion of a particular subject.
...a tradition of political discourse.
Synonyms: conversation, talk, discussion, speech  
2. uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun]
In linguistics, discourse is natural spoken or written language in context, especially when complete texts are being considered. [technical]
The Centre has a strong record of research in discourse analysis.
...our work on discourse and the way people talk to each other.
3. countable noun
A discourse is a serious talk or piece of writing which is intended to teach or explain something. [formal]
Hastings responds with a lengthy discourse on marketing strategies. [+ on]
Synonyms: speech, talk, address, essay  
4. verb
If someone discourses on something, they talk for a long time about it in a confident way. [formal]
He discoursed for several hours on French and English prose. [VERB preposition]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: talk, speak, discuss, debate  
5.  See also direct discourse, indirect discourse
Collocations:
intellectual discourse
The magazine was a counterblast to the insolence of the specialists, the people who dominate intellectual discourse nowadays.
Times, Sunday Times
Bennet replies that they were an intellectual discourse.
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He advocated a more prominent role of the natural sciences in intellectual discourse and education.
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Their work also heavily influenced intellectual discourse on popular culture and scholarly popular culture studies.
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These are social venues where people are more in pursuit of leisure than engaging in intellectual discourse.
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philosophical discourse
To reach these goals, participants partake in problem-solving, mathematical modeling, the practice of art, and philosophical discourse.
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He cultivates a deliberate literary expression, maintaining that the philosophical discourse must have two sides, one conceptually objective, the other subjective, aesthetic, persuasive.
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The book's blend of philosophical discourse and comic adventure has helped make it one of his most enduringly popular works.
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How were all three incorporated into rational liberalism philosophical discourse?
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It can even be said that this meaning has been dominating the philosophical discourse of today.
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political discourse
That is an infantilisation of political discourse, and a futile one at that.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Above all put a rigorous, rich language back at the centre of political discourse.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But scientific discourse doesn't work in the same way as political discourse.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In the face of this equation, genuine political discourse disappears.
Goshgarian, Gary Exploring language (6th edn) (1995)
Keep religion out of political discourse.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
public discourse
A harshness, a suspicion, a reductiveness has entered public discourse.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Their object in public discourse is not merely to inform, but to persuade and convince.
Harris, Marvin Cultural Anthropology (1995)
A national language is the language of public discourse, control, and power.
Goshgarian, Gary Exploring language (6th edn) (1995)
I love poetry, but the days when it was the primary mode of public discourse are long gone.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They are demeaning the quality of public discourse, and setting an appalling example to young people.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
rational discourse
Universities need to clarify what they see as their primary role: rational discourse or secular theology.
Times, Sunday Times
As in virtually every other setting, it stirs up quite a debate, but you would assume it fundamental to rational discourse.
Christianity Today
They are in demand by host nations and sponsors precisely because they have the ability to connect with the masses in a way that bypasses rational discourse.
Times, Sunday Times
He was paradoxically anti-modernist in his desire to do away with the rational discourse of modernism, to ditch the dictionary and create a new language free of convention or association.
The Times Literary Supplement
The teahouse was a place where political allegiances and social rank were said to have been temporarily suspended in favor of honest and rational discourse.
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scientific discourse
Does knowledge lie in the scientific discourse of cause and effect, or in the visceral connections of human emotion?
The Times Literary Supplement
But scientific discourse doesn't work in the same way as political discourse.
Times, Sunday Times
Censorship of scientific information would breed public distrust and discourage fresh minds from engaging in difficult research areas, and drive scientific discourse below a critical threshold.
Times, Sunday Times
Separated by half a millennium from our ancestors, the great differences in our eras' technology and scientific discourse irrevocably distort our perception of lived experience in the past.
The Times Literary Supplement
Increasingly that work evolved into an analysis of scientific discourse.
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Translations:
Chinese: 会话某专题的
Japanese: 会話
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