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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).

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[lisiblac.livejournal.com]

I have often seen 'discursive' used as an adjectival form of 'discourse.' Whether that was its correct usage before deconstructivists *needed* an adjectival form for 'discourse', I don't know. Sounds like you need to write a Derridian paper on the topic: "Discourse on the discourse." :)