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  • adjective Relating to discourse.

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Examples

  • As for your example (Shakespeare wrote ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Hamlet’ was written by Shakespeare) I would say that the difference is not at all stylistic, but is discoursal, in the same way as my Beethoven example.

    P is for Passive « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • While reading egs 6 – 12 (five instances of him and one of me) I found myself constantly trying to make them work, and I could, by imputing dramatic or contrastive stress as Duncan says, or contextual harmony or creative (eg poetic) language play, or other discoursal pressures.

    P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • While reading egs 6 – 12 (five instances of him and one of me) I found myself constantly trying to make them work, and I could, by imputing dramatic or contrastive stress as Duncan says, or contextual harmony or creative (eg poetic) language play, or other discoursal pressures.

    P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Devoted specifically to the scholarly, cross-disciplinary study of plagiary and related behaviors across the disciplines, articles in Plagiary address the issue of fraudulent contributions to disciplinary discourse communities and the potential (and actual) corruption of the professional literature and other genres of discourse as a result of such derivative and/or fraudulent "contributions" to discoursal interchange.

    Here & There 2006

  • Devoted specifically to the scholarly, cross-disciplinary study of plagiary and related behaviors across the disciplines, articles in Plagiary address the issue of fraudulent contributions to disciplinary discourse communities and the potential (and actual) corruption of the professional literature and other genres of discourse as a result of such derivative and/or fraudulent "contributions" to discoursal interchange.

    November 2006 2006

  • So now I'm trying to weave the new and old together nicely and finding that some things "discoursal animals" and who is Goldie anyway? have to be put back in because they were inadvertently cut.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Becca 2007

  • So now I'm trying to weave the new and old together nicely and finding that some things "discoursal animals" and who is Goldie anyway? have to be put back in because they were inadvertently cut.

    Poison Spindle Problem: Draft 7567 Becca 2007

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