| Like Socrates, Russell saw philosophy as spoken and conversational, rather than written and discursive. |
| The more lengthy and discursive notes of the original forces give way to a short, punchy, military style, often devoid of emotion. |
| Discipline, in Foucauldian theory, is a discursive framework by which activity is organised so that 'the correct training' of individuals occurs. |
| There must be some important enabling mechanism for people to be so discursive about things. |
| Prose is discursive, its energies more diffuse and spread out across space and time. |
| In speaking the academic discourse of philosophy, the debaters have lost their discursive, if not their literal, accents. |
