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Discourse Talk Spoken Written Discoursed Noun Communication People

word discourse
definition
noun
Discourse is spoken or written communication between people, especially serious discussion of a particular subject.
...a tradition of political discourse.
In linguistics, discourse is natural spoken or written language in context, especially when complete texts are being considered .
The Centre has a strong record of research in discourse analysis.
...our work on discourse and the way people talk to each other.
A discourse is a serious talk or piece of writing which is intended to teach or explain something.
Hastings responds with a lengthy discourse on marketing strategies.
verb
If someone discourses on something, they talk for a long time about it in a confident way.
He discoursed for several hours on French and English prose.
inflections discoursesdiscoursingdiscoursed
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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