everyday discourse

collocation in English

meanings of everydayand discourse

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everyday
adjective
uk /ˈev.ri.deɪ/ us /ˈev.ri.deɪ/
ordinary, typical, ...
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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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Examples of everyday discourse

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For instance, we mention causal relationships frequently in everydaydiscourse.
Places are subject to the defining acts of everydaydiscourse, and as such serve as resources in the constitution of community and individual identities.
The scales are tipped, then, in favor of dominant ideologies, which are more firmly established as regularized patterns in public and everydaydiscourse.
To summarize, varied forms of talk-focused talk have been reported to appear in young children's everydaydiscourse.
Miller (1986) claimed that peoples' knowledge of a word is organized around its use in everydaydiscourse rather than its dictionary definition.
While this is not an unexpected finding, other studies have used experimental situations, not everydaydiscourse, in which only a few new words are introduced in some controlled way.
Many arguments of the kind found in everydaydiscourse are enthymemes, meaning they have premises or conclusions that were not explicitly stated in the given text of discourse.
On the one hand, interactional sociolinguistics analyzes everydaydiscourse, focusing particularly on the interactive aspect of our language by looking closely at the interaction of speaker and hearer.
However, they neglect to point out that sign language users can exploit the iconicity of classifiers - and thus come up with very productive and creative uses - even in everydaydiscourse.
In contrast, fronted variants comprise just 26% of their local-parent peers' (aw) tokens in casual, everydaydiscourse, a frequency that doubles in the careful context of the word list.
Everywhere we hear or read of economic motives, economic ideas, economic tendencies and economic disasters and the word has now become part of our everydaydiscourse.
From the
Hansard archive

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The terms race, genetic population, ethnicity, geographic population, and ancestry are used interchangeably in everydaydiscourse involving race.
From
Wikipedia

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Because these discourses were not merely the same as the everydaydiscourse of the upper classes, they had to be taught.
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