scientific discourse

collocation in English

meaningsofscientificanddiscourse

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scientific
adjective
uk
/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/us
/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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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 ofscientificanddiscoursefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofscientific discourse

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Clearly the reality of these experiences is reduced to a snare and illusion if we believe that onlyscientificdiscourseexpresses what is real.
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In principle, however, the audience of naturalscientificdiscourseis restricted to those who can equally participate in its continuation.
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He refuses to give his experiences over to the historian and let him examine them according to the rules ofscientificdiscourse.
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Rather, his concern is about the status of these events inscientificdiscourse.
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Moreover, belief in women's rational inferiority was even more wide-spread than belief in their spiritual superiority: women had no source of authority inscientificdiscourse.
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As a consequence, interest in the evolutionary mechanisms transforming objects, organisms, behavior, and culture pervades philosophic andscientificdiscourse.
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On all levels ofscientificdiscourseand in all disciplines new forms of theories and new types of explanations were proposed and debated.
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It was a newscientificdiscourse, but phrenology was also a public rage, a sweeping fad, a craze.
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The vocabulary ofscientificdiscoursehas evolved and changed.
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This concern is primarily articulated through the interrelated discourses of welfare dependency and social exclusion, and legitimised throughscientificdiscourse.
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Because of a mixing of genres, students are denied access toscientificdiscoursewhen this discourse is not explicitly taught.
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Ascientificdiscoursemay replace this "mythical" narrative but would clearly enter into conflict with other established narratives functioning at the same symbolic level.
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This volume is the latest is a fine series of discourse-based studies showing the evolution ofscientificdiscourse.
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The authors illustrate how the story helps children begin to understand physics and become local "experts" in this newscientificdiscourse.
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It is a truly original mode of expression withinscientificdiscourse.
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Romanticism organised this narrative into a powerful textual montage on alterity, which combinedscientificdiscourse, aesthetic response, and humanistic concern.
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This last topic serves only to illustrate the bidirectionality ofscientificdiscoursewith the society in which it is embedded.
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In the context ofscientificdiscoursemetaphors deserve attention as resources in the generation and communication of knowledge.
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Rather, phrenology intersects with narrative and, as a result,scientificdiscourseand discursive practices meet in culture, exerting mutually transformative effects, reciprocally shaping each other.
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