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noun
Discussion, especially involving academic analysis, about a discussion or about discourse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: education, human-sciences, linguistics, philosophy, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Words and phrases, woven into a discourse, whose reference is the external framing constituted by the reader's attention and purposes for reading, the writer's purposes for writing, the narrative sequence or document organization, the epistemics behind the discourse, and so on.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: education, human-sciences, linguistics, philosophy, sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From meta- + discourse.
