discourse
suomi-englanti sanakirjadiscourse englannista suomeksi
saarna
puhua pitkään
vaihtaa mielipiteitä
tutkielma, esitelmä
käsitellä
pohdinta
Substantiivi
Verbi
discourse englanniksi
Verbal exchange, conversation.
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
(RQ:Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre)
Expression in words, either speech or writing.
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A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
''The preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.''
Any rational expression, reason.
1692, (w), ''A Discourse Concerning The General Resurrection On Acts xxiv. 15''
- difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)
An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Foucault|Michel Foucault).
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2008, Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis Gordon, ''A Companion to African-American Studies'' (page 308)
- But equally important to the emergence of uniquely African-American queer discourses is the refusal of African-American movements for liberation to address adequately issues of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Dealing; transaction.
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
To debate.
To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
(RQ:Dryden Metamorphoses)
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet) Will you play upon this pipe? (..) It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumbs, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.
1911, (w), ''Golden Bough|The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'', Volume II, Part II, Chapter V, p. 233, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41832/41832-h/41832-h.html
- Music discoursed on that melodious instrument, a Jew's harp, keeps the elfin women away from the hunter, because the tongue of the instrument is of steel.
1915, (w), ''The Secret Play'', New York: D. Appleton & Co., Chapter XXIII, p. 300 https://archive.org/details/secretplay00barbgoog
- Dahl's Silver Cornet Band, augmented for the occasion to the grand total of fourteen pieces, discoursed sweet—well, discoursed music; let us not be too particular as to the quality of it.