Discourse : nm (word from latin discourse, according to course).
The word “discourse” has several meanings:
I) A speech, speeches:
1. About that we is holding (conversation, dialogue, interview).
Il is holding speeches strange.
– Quote from the French playwright and actor Molière (1622-1673): “It is to you, please, that this speech is addressed”.
futile speeches, frivolous (babbling, chattering).
Do great speeches hollow (palaver).
(Opposite to action, fact, proof): This will have moreswerve than all speeches.
Enough talk, facts!
2. Common sense: Development oratory given before a meeting de people (speech, talk, lecture, presentation, harangue, improvisation, proclamation, speech; colloquial: spiel, topo).
– Quote from the French humorist Pierre Dac (1893-1875): “A good speech should not be based on anything, while giving the impression of being based on everything”.
Introduction, exposure, for sustainable, conclusion of a speech.
Discourse religious (homily, instruction, sermon, sermon, preaching, sermon).
Speech in praise, for the defense, the justification of someone (apology, eulogy, panegyric, plea).
Discourse that accuses (catiline, philippic, indictment).
Do, read, improvise, give a speech.
Discourse pronounced du top of the pulpit (ex cathedra), from a grandstand.
A speech River.
Discourse policy televised.
The speeches of a the countryside electoral.
The small sentences, the hints of a speech (policy).
Inaugural and closing speech.
Speech from the Throne, pronounced before Parliament at the beginning of each année parliamentary by a sovereign or his representative.
Speech by policy General of the head of government.
Keynote speech by a minister.
Speech by reception, pronounced by a new academician.
3. Didactic literary writing that treaty an topic in it developing methodically (presented, treated).
Book by the French mathematician, physicist and philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650): “The Discourse on Method”.
II) The speech:
1. The'expression verbal thought (speech; language).
parts of speech: categories traditional grammatical (noun, article, adjective, pronoun, verb, adverb; preposition, conjunction, interjection).
Rhetoric: The sequence of ordered words that constitute a speech, a sermon.
The six parties traditional discourse: introduction, proposition; narration, proof, refutation; peroration.
2. Linguistics: Exercise of the faculty of language (speech).
Particular form of the linguistic realizations of a field of knowledge.
Scientific discourse, literary discourse.
– Quotation from the French biologist Jacques Testart (born in 1939): “Scientist discourse claims to remove all limits in the conquest of nature”.
Observable linguistic utterance (sentence and series of spoken sentences; written text), by opposition au système abstract what is language.
Occurrence of a against in speech.
Reported speech, direct, indirect.
Statement explicitly supported by a narrator.
Opposition speech and story.
Didactic: Analysis of (of) discourse, taking for unit observation the sentence or a unit more expanse (enunciation, stylistics).
3. Philosophy : Thought discursive, reasoning (opposite à intuition).
THEunivers of speech: thetogether du context.