discursive construction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdiscursiveandconstruction
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discursive
adjective
uk/dɪˈskɜː.sɪv/us/dɪˈskɝː.sɪv/
involving ...
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construction
noun
uk/kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/us/kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/
the work of building or making something, especially buildings, ...
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This misses thediscursiveconstructionof evaluation as a political project.
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Thediscursiveconstructionof the event is fundamentally dualistic.
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The notion of examining practice in terms of itsdiscursiveconstructiondoes not rely only on listening to users.
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The study's focus is thediscursiveconstructionand rhetoric of using others' words for the speaker's own purposes.
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So it is with thediscursiveconstructionof cultures, phases and types.
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When candidates engage in suchdiscursiveconstructionof their life choices, coherence is represented as continuity of actions, thoughts, and feelings.
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In this book, research from pediatric and cancer clinics is used to discuss the interactive anddiscursiveconstructionof patients and parents.
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Both authors treat population as adiscursiveconstruction.
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Their framework combines aspects of the social constructionist approach, which focuses ondiscursiveconstructionof identities, and the poststructuralist emphasis on power relations.
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This is not a display of parochial narrowness but a much more complex and interesting exploration of local practices and theirdiscursiveconstructionin the popular media.
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Repor ted speech is then one site where we can examine the real-timediscursiveconstructionof projected social identities.
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This article examines thediscursiveconstructionof social care contracting as it was evolving in negotiation and dialogue between two local authorities and their non-profit and commercial contractors.
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It also conceals a doublediscursiveconstruction.
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Rather than placing discursive constructions centre stage, the article uses life history material to effect an analysis embedded in everyday practices.
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It offers access to the ways in which historical actors adapted, utilized, or disregarded discursive constructions within their own spheres of existence.
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And it is a great leap forward, in my view, to look through (and within) caricature to reimagine her performances and discursive constructions in narrative space and time.
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Moreover, interests are only discursive constructions.
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The discursive constructions of these female bodies are quite plainly prepared for consumption by men.
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