Definizione monolingua

discourse

discourse (third-person singular simple present discourses, present participle discoursing, simple past and past participle discoursed)

1. (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
2. (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
3. (obsolete) (transitive) To debate.

discourse (countable and uncountable; plural discourses)

1. (uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII

     Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room. At first I could not make much sense of what I heard; for the discourse of Louisa Eshton and Mary Ingram, who sat nearer to me, confused the fragmentary sentences that reached me at intervals.

2. (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
3. (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
4. (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
5. (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).

Definizione dizionario discourse

	discorso
	expression in (spoken or written) words
	verbal exchange or conversation

conferenza

discorrere

discussione

dissertazione

orazione

Altri significati:

A formal lengthy exposition of some subject.

in social sciences

(uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.

(intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.

(obsolete) (transitive) To debate.

(countable) Any rational expression, reason.

to debate

(social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).

(uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.

write or speak formally and at length

(countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.

engage in discussion or conversation

rational expression, reason

(intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.

formal lengthy exposition of some subject