English-Italian translations for discourse

• discorso
  Il discorso sui diritti umani è globale per definizione. The human rights discourse is by definition global.
  Personalmente, non ritengo che il suo sia un discorso contro l'Europa, ma una richiesta di costruire l'Europa in modo diverso. Personally I do not take your discourse as a discourse against Europe but as a call to build Europe in a different way.
  E’ la forma più meschina di discorso o di attività politica in cui mi sia mai imbattuto. That is the most despicable form of political discourse or activity that I have ever come across.

Definition of discourse

• Verbal exchange, conversation
• Expression in words, either speech or writing
• A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written
• Any rational expression, reason
• An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after w:Michel Foucault|Michel Foucault
• Dealing; transaction
• To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse
• To debate
• To produce or emit (musical sounds

Synonyms

• study
• treatise

Examples

• The preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.

Related words

• interdiscourse
• discourse marker
• discourse particle
• discourse analysis
• discourse grammar
• domain of discourse