contemporary discourse
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontemporaryanddiscourse
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contemporary
adjective
uk/kənˈtem.pər.ər.i/us/kənˈtem.pə.rer.i/
existing or happening now, and therefore ...
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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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Incontemporarydiscourse, proficiency was being prized above social status and ' amateurish ' was becoming a term of disparagement.
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He seescontemporarydiscourseabout human rights as the modern version of justifying and contesting competing values.
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This article uses the methods of the history of philosophy in order to examine an issue withincontemporarydiscourse.
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Thecontemporarydiscoursewithin the media elites shows that most 45er editors explicitly railed against any formation of consensus.
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Each one of these points resonates with changing perceptions of ageing and the positioning of maturity withincontemporarydiscourse.
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The texts of the sermons clearly demonstrate the preachers' awareness of thecontemporarydiscourseof the telegraph.
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Understanding how 'retirees ' and retirement are being re-shaped incontemporarydiscourse, and the factors that influence this re-shaping, is an important prerequisite for understanding the future for older people.
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Accounts of public health work given by these respondents tended to reflect thecontemporarydiscourse on public health within government documents, academic literature and amongst senior leaders in the service.
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In its propensity to grant the "primitive" an unprecedented psychic and sociological value, lost world fiction shares a surprising number of assumptions with thecontemporarydiscourseof evolutionary anthropology.
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Concepts of urban stability are assessed through the study of a town's government in practice rather than through the analysis ofcontemporarydiscourseor political theory.
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Generally working within an established framework, the artist run centre is now charged with understanding and challenging ongoingcontemporarydiscourse.
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A variety of new topics have risen to the stage in analytic philosophy, orienting much ofcontemporarydiscoursein the field of ethics.
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