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-'''Discourse''' (from [[Latin]] ''discursus'', "running to and from") denotes written and spoken [[communication]]s: 
-* In [[semantics]] and [[discourse analysis]]: Discourse is a conceptual generalization of [[conversation]] within each modality and context of communication.+'''''Discourse Studies''''' is a bimonthly [[Peer review|peer-reviewed]] [[academic journal]] that covers the field of [[discourse analysis]], especially articles that offer a detailed, systematic and explicit analysis of the structures and strategies of text and talk, their cognitive basis and their social, political and cultural functions. It specifically also publishes studies in [[conversation analysis]]. The journal was established in 1999 by [[Teun A. van Dijk]].
-* The totality of codified language (vocabulary) used in a given field of intellectual enquiry and of social practice, such as legal discourse, medical discourse, religious discourse, et cetera.+
-* In the work of [[Michel Foucault]], and that of the social theoreticians he inspired: ''discourse'' describes "an entity of sequences, of signs, in that they are enouncements (''énoncés'')", statements in conversation.+
-As discourse, an "enouncement" (statement) is not a unit of [[semiotic]] signs, but an abstract construct that allows the semiotic signs to assign meaning, and so communicate specific, repeatable communications to, between, and among objects, subjects, and statements. Therefore, a discourse is composed of semiotic sequences (relations among signs that communicate meaning) between and among objects, subjects, and statements. 
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-The term "'''discursive formation''' conceptually describes the regular communications (written and spoken) that produce such discourses, such as informal conversations. As a philosopher, Michel Foucault applied the discursive formation in the analyses of large bodies of knowledge, such as [[political economy]] and [[natural history]]. 
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-In the first sense-usage (semantics and discourse analysis), the term ''discourse'' is studied in [[corpus linguistics]], the [[study of language]] expressed in ''[[Text corpus|corpora]]'' (samples) of "real world" text. In the second sense (the codified language of a field of enquiry) and in the third sense (a statement, ''un énoncé''), the analysis of a ''discourse'' examines and determines the connections among [[language]] and [[structure and agency]]. 
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-Moreover, because a discourse is a body of text meant to communicate specific data, information, and knowledge, there exist internal relations in the content of a given discourse; likewise, there exist external relations among discourses. As such, a discourse does not exist ''per se'' (in itself), but is related to other discourses, by way of inter-discursivity. Discourses are also perpetually differentiating toward each other in time. Therefore, in the course of [[Research|intellectual enquiry]], the discourse among researchers features the questions and answers of ''What is ...?'' and ''What is not. ...'', conducted according to the meanings (denotation and connotation) of the concepts (statements) used in the given field of enquiry, such as [[anthropology]], [[ethnography]], and [[sociology]]; [[cultural studies]] and [[literary theory]]; the [[philosophy of science]] and [[feminism]]. 
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-== See also == 
-* [[Critical discourse analysis]] 
-* [[Deconstruction]] 
-* [[Difference (philosophy)]] 
-* ''[[Discipline and Punish]]'' 
-* [[Discourse community]] 
-* ''[[Discourse Studies]]'' 
-* [[Episteme]] 
-* [[Foucauldian discourse analysis]] 
-* [[Interdiscourse|Interdiscursivity]] 
-* [[Interpersonal communication]] 
-* [[Parrhesia]] 
-* [[Postcolonial literature]] 
-* [[Post-structuralism]] 
-* ''[[The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity]]'', a 1985 book by [[Jürgen Habermas]], regarded as an important contribution to [[Frankfurt School]] critical theory 
-*[[Public Speaking]] 
-* [[Rhetoric]] 
-* [[Tradition#In political and religious discourse]] 
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Discourse Studies is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of discourse analysis, especially articles that offer a detailed, systematic and explicit analysis of the structures and strategies of text and talk, their cognitive basis and their social, political and cultural functions. It specifically also publishes studies in conversation analysis. The journal was established in 1999 by Teun A. van Dijk.





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