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bcholmes"Discursive"
In pomo circles, I was pretty sure that the term "discursive" describes questions that bring critical assumptions into focus or questions which cause radical rethinking of a set of assumptions.
Am I crazy? Anyone else familiar with that usage? (m-w.com and dictionary.com both give me very different definitions).
dis·cur·sive
Date: 2004-05-14 10:39 am (UTC)Pronunciation: dis-'k&r-siv
Function: adjective
Etymology: Medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discursus, past participle of discurrere to run about -- more at DISCOURSE
1 a : moving from topic to topic without order : RAMBLING b : proceeding coherently from topic to topic
2 : marked by analytical reasoning
- dis·cur·sive·ly adverb
- dis·cur·sive·ness noun
Meriam-webster online