If the analytical value of some terms derives from their descriptive precision and specificity of meaning, other words—such as discourse—owe their utility to multiple layers of meaning and their ability to stimulate ambiguity....

Generic term for various types of text2. The term has been used with various differences in meaning: connected speech (Harris 1952); the product of an interactive process in a sociocultural context (Pike 1954); performance (vs ‘text’ as a...

// n. A connected series of utterances by one or more speakers. Certain types of grammatical, lexical and phonological elements can be identified which typically serve to relate one utterance to another in some fashion, but, on the whole, attempts at...

Discourse is communication that goes back and forth (from the Latin, discursus, "running to and from"), such as debate or argument. The term is used in semantics and discourse analysis. In semantics, discourses are linguistic units composed of several...

A Green Feminist Alternative Value Process Feminist economists have been at the forefront in pointing out that markets are often inefficient at allocating goods and services, and inappropriate for estimating their value. This paper explores an alternative allocation and valuation methodology for collective...

By Sir Joshua Reynolds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 349 pp. $17. Arthur Danto In 1808, William Blake scathingly scribbled what today would be "Bullshit!" in the margins of his edition of Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses on Art: "This man was...