What's the difference between discourse and discoursive?

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.

Discoursive


Definition:

  • (a.) Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
  • (a.) Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
  • (a.) Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man.
  • (n.) The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason.

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.

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