passing from one topic to another, usually in an unmethodical way; digressive
2. philosophy
of or relating to knowledge obtained by reason and argument rather than intuition
Compare dianoetic
Derived forms
discursively (disˈcursively)
adverb
discursiveness (disˈcursiveness)
noun
Word origin
C16: from Medieval Latin discursīvus, from Late Latin discursusdiscourse
Examples of 'discoursive' in a sentence
discoursive
Several terms related to discourse are given: discoursive practice, discoursive thinking, discoursive abilities etc.
Taisiya A Grebenshchikova, Irina A Zachiosova, Natalya D Pavlova 2018, 'CONTEMPORARY VIEWS ON THE TERM ‘DISCOURSE' IN PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES', RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogicshttp://journals.rudn.ru/psychology-pedagogics/article/viewFile/19460/16186. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Precedent textual components are semiotic units of this discoursive space.
S Yu Preobrazhenskiy, D G Konovalova 2016, 'Precedent textual components in social nets discoursive space', RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semanticshttp://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/14306. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The examples demonstrate that this discoursive production occurs in self-representational media formats and in outside media representations.
Hendrik Trescher 2017, 'Disabling practices', Cogent Social Scienceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2017.1328771. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The article explores how telecommuters make sense out of their experience through the analysis of their discoursive practices.
Isabel de Sá Affonso da Costa 2007, 'Teletrabalho: subjugação e construção de subjetividades Telecommuting: subjugatingand building subjectivities', Revista de Administração Públicahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-76122007000100007. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)