transdiscursive
transdiscursive adjective: transcending or of overarching concern to multiple discourses.
Adjective
transdiscursive (not comparable)
- Transcending or of overarching concern to multiple discourses.
- A Transdiscursive Man
Foucault gave us the term 'transdiscursive', which describes how, for example, Foucault is not simply an author of a book, but the author of a theory, tradition or discipline.
We can at least say that he was the instigator of a method of historical inquiry which has had major...1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 5 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN)
- A Transdiscursive Man
Origin of transdiscursive
From trans- + discursive.
Words that rhyme with transdiscursive
- recursive
- cursive
- immersive
- adversive
- animadversive
- aversive
- conversive
- discursive
- dispersive
- excursive
- introversive
- semicursive
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- subversive
- abstersive
- antidiscursive
- antisubversive
- aspersive
- co-recursive
- compersive
- contraversive
- corecursive
- counterdiscursive
- countersubversive
- cyberdiscursive
- detersive
- electrodispersive
- eversive
- extroversive
- immunosubversive
- incursive
- interconversive
- interdiscursive
- inversive
- ipsiversive
- left-recursive
- macrodiscursive
- metadiscursive
- microdiscursive
- monodispersive
- nonaversive
- noncursive
- nondiscursive
- nondispersive
- nonimmersive
- nonrecursive
- nonsubversive
- overdispersive
- perversive
- photoaversive
- polydispersive
- precursive
- primitive recursive
- proaversive
- procursive
- pursive
- reversive
- Roman cursive
- semiodiscoursive
- submersive
- subrecursive
Questions about transdiscursive
- What does transdiscursive mean?
- Transdiscursive means transcending or of overarching concern to multiple discourses.
- What part of speech is transdiscursive?
- Transdiscursive is an adjective.
Words near transdiscursive in the dictionary
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