Discursive is an adjective from the word discourse and may refer specifically to:
- Discursive psychology, a school of psychology
- Discursive democracy, any system of political decisions based on some tradeoff of consensus decision making and representative democracy
- Discursive meditation, in Christian prayer
- Discursive repetition, or Repetition (rhetorical device), the repetition of a certain type of discourse in linguistics
Famous quotes containing the word discursive:
“Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result is Fantasy; if, however, the sensitive, intuitive mind turns to speculation, the result is Imagination. Fantasy may be visionary, but it is cold and logical. Imagination is sensuous and instinctive. Both have form, but the form of Fantasy is analogous to Exposition, that of Imagination to Narrative.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)