Discourse



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• n.演讲, 论述
• ［英］ n.演讲, 论述 ( a long and formal treatment of a subject, in speech or writing; dissertation)
• ［记］ dis+course ( 跑) -> 像跑一样讲 -> ( 长篇) 演讲
• ［同］ 同根词: concourse ( 汇合, 合流)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English discours, from Medieval Latin & Late Latin discursus; Medieval Latin, argument, from Late Latin, conversation, from Latin, act of running about, from discurrere to run about, from dis- + currere to run — more at car
• Date: 14th century
• 1. archaic the capacity of orderly thought or procedure ; rationality
• 2. verbal interchange of ideas; especially conversation
• 3.
  • a. formal and orderly and usually extended expression of thought on a subject
  • b. connected speech or writing
  • c. a linguistic unit (as a conversation or a story) larger than a sentence
• 4. obsolete social familiarity
• 5. a mode of organizing knowledge, ideas, or experience that is rooted in language and its concrete contexts (as history or institutions) <critical discourse>

II. verb (discoursed; discoursing)

• Date: 1559
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to express oneself especially in oral discourse
  • 2. talk, converse
• transitive verb
  • archaic to give forth ; utter
• ? discourser noun

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