everyday discourse
collocation in Englishmeaningsofeverydayanddiscourse
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everyday
adjective
uk/ˈev.ri.deɪ/us/ˈev.ri.deɪ/
ordinary, typical, ...
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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 ofeverydayanddiscoursefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofeveryday discourse
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For instance, we mention causal relationships frequently ineverydaydiscourse.
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Places are subject to the defining acts ofeverydaydiscourse, and as such serve as resources in the constitution of community and individual identities.
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The scales are tipped, then, in favor of dominant ideologies, which are more firmly established as regularized patterns in public andeverydaydiscourse.
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To summarize, varied forms of talk-focused talk have been reported to appear in young children'severydaydiscourse.
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Miller (1986) claimed that peoples' knowledge of a word is organized around its use ineverydaydiscourserather than its dictionary definition.
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While this is not an unexpected finding, other studies have used experimental situations, noteverydaydiscourse, in which only a few new words are introduced in some controlled way.
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Many arguments of the kind found ineverydaydiscourseare enthymemes, meaning they have premises or conclusions that were not explicitly stated in the given text of discourse.
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On the one hand, interactional sociolinguistics analyzeseverydaydiscourse, focusing particularly on the interactive aspect of our language by looking closely at the interaction of speaker and hearer.
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However, they neglect to point out that sign language users can exploit the iconicity of classifiers - and thus come up with very productive and creative uses - even ineverydaydiscourse.
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In contrast, fronted variants comprise just 26% of their local-parent peers' (aw) tokens in casual,everydaydiscourse, a frequency that doubles in the careful context of the word list.
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Everywhere we hear or read of economic motives, economic ideas, economic tendencies and economic disasters and the word has now become part of oureverydaydiscourse.
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Hansard archive
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The terms race, genetic population, ethnicity, geographic population, and ancestry are used interchangeably ineverydaydiscourseinvolving race.
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Wikipedia
Because these discourses were not merely the same as theeverydaydiscourseof the upper classes, they had to be taught.
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