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transdiscursive

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv

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adj

Meaning 1

Transcending or of overarching concern to multiple discourses.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 5 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN A Transdiscursive Man Foucault gave us the term 'transdiscursive', which describes how, for example, Foucault is not simply an author of a book, but the author of a theory, tradition or discipline. We can at least say that he was the instigator of a method of historical inquiry which has had major effects on the study of subjectivity, power, knowledge, discourse, history, sexuality, madness, the penal system and much else. Hence the term, “Foucaldian”.

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History

Etymology

From trans- + discursive.