Counterdiscursive

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Opposing or countering a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.

    "All of their texts, which were written during the 1980s and 1990s, share an oppositional and counterdiscursive impulse through which they express the possibility of a community different from that offered by the dominant culture."

Synonyms

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antidiscursiveantidiscursive

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"All of their texts, which were written during the 1980s and 1990s, share an oppositional and counterdiscursive impulse through which they express the possibility of a community different from that offered by the dominant culture."

Etymology

From counter- + discursive.

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