counterdiscourse
English
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editNoun
editcounterdiscourse (plural counterdiscourses)
- (social sciences) A way of thinking that opposes an institutionalized discourse.
- 1999, Greg Carey, Elusive Apocalypse: Reading Authority in the Revelation to John:
- Counterdiscourses such as postcolonial and resistance literatures struggle with their hybrid nature. They generally find it necessary to appropriate the language and techniques of the center which they oppose.