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diskurssi — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • discourse noun Serious conversation or communication, spoken or written, on a particular subject.

Senses

diskurssi is used for these senses in English:

  • discourse (uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.
  • discourse (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
  • discursion (philosophy) Ratiocination; step-by-step philosophical reasoning, as opposed to intuition.

discourse — full definition

  1. noun Serious conversation or communication, spoken or written, on a particular subject.
  2. verb To speak or write at length about a subject.

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