(n.) A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.
(n.) A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.
(v. i.) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
(v. t.) To express as in dialogue.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
(2) It said: “We will be seeking to inform and encourage dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians in the wider cultural and creative community.
(3) The script is taken almost entirely from Charles Webb 's excellent novel, which itself is sparely written and led by dialogue.
(4) But illegal action will only ruin any chance of dialogue with Tehran.
(5) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
(6) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(7) The findings can be a starting point for faculty-dean dialogue about tenure expections.
(8) We would welcome a dialogue between researchers, manufacturers and regulatory authorities.
(9) Hugo de Armas, 37, from Tenerife, whose tent was one of the first to arrive outside St Paul's, said: "We have created a space for dialogue, I hope to stay here for Christmas, longer."
(10) • Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has accepted a proposal by the German chancellor, Angel Merkel, to set up a “fact-finding mission” that would pave the way for some form of political dialogue in the crisis, according to the German government.
(11) Although China has so far refused to enable dialogue between our leaders, I sincerely hope that it will come forward, rather than keep invoking the ghost of militarism of seven decades ago, which no longer exists."
(12) Thus, failure to include consumers on health policy boards guarantees the absence of a solution-oriented dialogue and promotes the continuing predominance of a provider-biased ideology.
(13) Following references to the development of the discipline and of the possible misunderstandings involved in an interpretation of the term "integration", the author makes reference to the dialogue-like structure of integration.
(14) He shared platforms with the Prince of Wales and, in 2008, spoke at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on the value of dialogue between civilisations.
(15) Fundamental to all of this, though, hopefully will be a dialogue among the many disciplines concerned with human research.
(16) There will be dialogue and discussions about what works, rather than rude surprises that backfire.
(17) Any dialogue between the new elected leader and China would imply a big shift in Chinese position, which is highly unlikely.
(18) More could certainly be done to help charities who would like to investigate merging; there needs to be better guidance available, as well as more open and positive dialogue on the subject within the sector.
(19) Expressing the belief that it was important for Christians to engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with atheists, Francis recalled Scalfari had asked him whether God forgave those "who do not believe and do not seek to believe".
(20) We could also expand our bilateral human rights dialogues with China and Vietnam to other nations within the Asia Pacific.” She said a moratorium could be the first step towards ending the death penalty globally.
Discourse
Definition:
(n.) The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
(n.) Conversation; talk.
(n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
(n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
(n.) Dealing; transaction.
(v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
(v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
(v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
(v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
(v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
(v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
(v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten backs prospect of Indigenous treaty to ‘move beyond constitutional recognition’ At a press conference, Turnbull rebuked Shorten for his lack of “discipline” on Q&A, which is, after all, the home of reasoned and reasonable political discourse.
(3) This is understandable: marital rape has not been a part of India’s discourse.
(4) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(5) Derived patterns of discourse between female adults and preschool children confirmed expectations that most discourse is based upon three fundamental speech act pairings: question--answer, statement--reply, and directive--acknowledgement.
(6) In light of the AIDS epidemic and the necessity for safe-sex practices, the topic of caution and prevention is an emerging and critical discourse for the sexual encounter.
(7) He might begin with a call for an end to all foreign wars, segue to demand the legalisation of drugs, throw in a defence of WikiLeaks and end with a detailed economic discourse on why the Federal Reserve must be abolished and replaced by the gold standard.
(8) Three-quarters of the sample was impaired on at least one of four discourse tests (knowing the alternate meanings of ambiguous words in context; getting the point of figurative or metaphoric expressions; bridging the inferential gaps between events in stereotyped social situations; and producing speech acts that express the apparent intentions of others).
(9) I support the boycott discourse, but in order to develop this discourse, we need highly developed political consciousness.
(10) Other significant differences in discourse occurred between the two groups, but these varied from task to task.
(11) He was not in the mood for elaboration, with abundant short answers and uptight reactions to the topics that were suggested for discourse.
(12) I quoted Cooke because, as he himself suggests, what he wrote is a pure distillation of a widely held view in US political discourse.
(13) That’s the danger of replacing the political discourse with a purely moralistic approach: politics allow for nuances and mistakes; morality doesn’t.
(14) Discourse passages and consonant nonsense syllables, presented in quiet and in noise, were used as the test conditions.
(15) And the discourse of those that are committing these crimes – they are not hiding these crimes, they are saying it very openly, very publicly, very systematically … and it’s not just rhetoric – the action they take is to implement the rhetoric.
(16) Powell told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference in Liverpool on Monday: “I think my approach to these issues in parliament is going to be about making and winning the argument rather than a sort of ‘yah-boo’ traditional political discourse, because I don’t think that is going to enable us to develop that broader alliance.
(17) Manic patients produced thought disorders that revealed both prominent combinatory thinking and intrusions of irrelevant ideas into the stream of discourse, usually with flippancy and humor.
(18) There are rationalisations but very little actual discourse on the subject of banning assault weapons.
(19) Each lesson focuses on a different viseme which is practiced using the 'discourse tracking' method.
(20) Preliminary data from our single-case studies suggest discourse patterns similar to those reported for adults with frontal lobe injuries.