political discourse
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpoliticalanddiscourse
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political
adjective
uk/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/us/pəˈlɪt̬.ə.kəl/
relating ...
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discourse
noun
uk/ˈdɪs.kɔːs/us/ˈdɪs.kɔːrs/
languagespecialized
the use of language to communicate in speech or writing, or an example ...
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(Definition ofpoliticalanddiscoursefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpolitical discourse
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This required the total removal of traditional anti-communism from 'normal'politicaldiscourse.
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Courts are profoundly rhetorical institutions bound to be affected by moral understandings deeply embedded in categories ofpoliticaldiscourse.
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The village ethos promoted consensus and eschewedpoliticaldiscourse.
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The catalyst in frontlash is defeat of longstandingpoliticaldiscourseor elite program.
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These groups, whose saliency increased with the clarity and frequency of group clues in thepoliticaldiscourse, were made chronically visible by the context.
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Does it help us to explain the continuing centrality of class topoliticaldiscoursethrough to the 1930s?
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Beyond these remarks, it is revealing that thepoliticaldiscourseon impunity does not directly address its structural causes, but rather addresses the president personally.
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Ultimately, this victory was not ensured by the persuasive nature of the new dimensions of the bloc'spoliticaldiscourse.
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Inpoliticaldiscourse, for example, it may be necessar y to tolerate insulting utterances for the sake of having free public debate.
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Politicaldiscourseon truth and courage is highly moral, and this is often expressed in kinship idioms.
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In order to understand the politics of evaluation, therefore, we need to consider both its role withinpoliticaldiscourseand its contestation within society.
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In popular andpoliticaldiscourseit has become synonymous with staying married.
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Legitimatepoliticaldiscoursemust be a translation of what is "privately" felt and believed true into secular, scientific, and pragmatic forms.
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This suggests that political competition is more manageable, because a large moderate center provides a middle ground forpoliticaldiscourseand cooperation.
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Therefore, the struggle against impunity also takes place on a symbolic level at which key symbols are appropriated, interpreted and incorporated intopoliticaldiscourse.
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The fact that it presents itself in such a fashion is an indictment of the gestural rather than critical orientation ofpoliticaldiscoursewithin musicology.
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Despite the labeling of this contextualizing as "ethnographic,"this section focuses on generalities about the production ofpoliticaldiscourse.
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It does suggest, though, that the choice of a particularpoliticaldiscoursewas usually not independent of social position.
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Moreover, these discussions took place in a period when the tensions between democracy and technocracy were at the center ofpoliticaldiscourse.
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