counterdiscursive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Opposing or countering a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Postcolonial analyses of cultural production study counterdiscursive practices in cultures affected by the imperial enterprise, such as the legacy of subjugation and resistance of the black populations of the Americas."
- "Overcompensating for anti-fat rhetorics by emphasizing the relative health and beauty of fatness, is I guess, a rather inevitable step in fighting for the rights of oppressed groups by performing counterdiscursive fat perfection."
Etymology
From counter- + discursive.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more counterdiscursive (comparative)
most counterdiscursive (superlative)