Discourse
Discourse noun - Talking or a talk between two or more people.
Language is a synonym for discourse in speech topic. In some cases you can use "Language" instead a noun "Discourse".
Nearby Words: discoursed, discoursing
Language
Language noun - The stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication.
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- In even earlier centuries, Latin was the preferred language for scholarly discourse.
Source: Common Tongue - Of course, it only takes a month of instruction for Eragon to be literate enough to gather information from government records, and only a few months after that for him to read philosophical discourse and write epic poetry (in a different language).
Source: Literature / Eragon - Dehumanization can occur discursively (e.g., idiomatic language that likens certain human beings to non-human animals, verbal abuse, erasing one's voice from discourse), symbolically (e.g., imagery), or physically (e.g., chattel slavery, physical abuse, refusing eye contact).
Source: Dehumanization
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Language and Discourse. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/discourse/language
Discourse & Language. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/discourse/language>.
Language or Discourse. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/discourse/language.
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