Discourse

Discourse

Discourse (Latin: discursus, “running to and fro”) is the term that describes written and spoken communications; its denotations include:

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Famous quotes containing the word discourse:

    “Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them open.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The first duty of a lecturer—to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece for ever.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)