Printer Friendly
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
1,803,546,211 visitors served.
forum mailing list For webmasters
?
New: Language forums
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

discursive
(redirected from discursively)

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Legal, Wikipedia 0.03 sec.
discursive
Philosophy of or relating to knowledge obtained by reason and argument rather than intuition


How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Email
Feedback
? Mentioned in ? References in periodicals archive
 
After only one semester, students were of course not ready to abolish the prison system, but the constant questioning of major tropes surrounding criminality certainly destabilized their attachment to those narratives and helped them see society as an interdependent, historically and discursively constructed entity.
By the mid-twentieth century, as argued above, African American autobiography had to cope with the determining condition that, in the United States, the meaning of black humanity had become inseparable discursively from the ideological legitimization of US global leadership.
It is important to note that, because life history interviews are the result of a discursively co-constructed journey of discovery, new meaning and new knowledge are not only revealed through the intersubjective relationship between the researcher and the respondent; the interaction itself becomes a contributor to revealing additional insight and understanding (Koschmann et al.
 
Encyclopedia browser? ? Full browser
 
 
Encyclopedia
?

Disclaimer | Privacy policy | Feedback | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc.
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. Terms of Use.