mode of discourse

collocation in English

meaningsofmodeanddiscourse

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mode
noun
uk
/məʊd/us
/moʊd/
formal
a way of operating, living, ...
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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 ofmodeanddiscoursefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmode of discourse

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Both are still thoroughly bound up in a culture-historicalmodeofdiscourse.
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Themodeofdiscourseis speech, in which the language is largely ancillary to (or accompanying) an act of selling.
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Evidential scholarship, which had originally been a methodology devised to restore the original version of ancient texts, tended to become a newmodeofdiscourse.
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Aside from textbook analyses, a number of other genres and modes of discourse have been explored.
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What's wrong with offering resistance to dominant modes of discourse or hegemony?
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However, formulaic modes of discourse and standardised forms of presentation which might be associated with a notary public or possibly a person in holy orders are absent from such appeals.
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Weber, of course, licensed both modes of discourse.
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Manfred and music communicate through inner voices, which will infiltrate and unsettle more external, theatrical modes of discourse.
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Along with exposition, argumentation, and description, narration, broadly defined, is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse.
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In the modern age, for instance, the loose sentence has been favored in all modes of discourse.
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Along with exposition, argumentation, and description, narration (broadly defined) is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse.
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Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse.
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Bataille drew from diverse influences and used various modes of discourse to create his work.
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