Sentence examples for explanatory discourse from inspiring English sources

And all of these moves were couched within an explanatory discourse — patched together from biology, psychology, myth and popular culture — as elaborate and knotty as any theological system proposed by 13th-century scholasticism.

The aesthetic of the "WRONG" lettering is bold and clear, and comes without any explanatory discourse.

It follows analytical strictures (at least loosely) in paraphrasing mental terms behaviorally, when or if they cannot be eliminated from explanatory discourse.

The notion of "pressure" as an evolutionary "force" that "causes" evolution is a pervasive linguistic feature of biology textbooks, journal articles, and student explanatory discourse.

Compared with narrative research, far less work has been carried out on the development of explanatory discourse in child language, and of these studies (Berman, 2008; Gillam, Peňa, & Miller, 1999; Nippold, Hesketh, Duthie, & Mansfield, 2005), none has addressed the challenge of producing oral explanations in one's L2 in the early years.

Another purpose of the study was to distinguish between effects of type of discourse (explanatory or narrative) and level of familiarity in the quality of children's productions and the role of bilingualism on those results.

Once the conclusion that the universe is teleologically structured is settled, the explanatory methodology of the discourse changes accordingly.

This notices us, besides the components that composing a syntax structure, the semantic linking plays an important role when deciding whether a discourse is explanatory or not.

Through three different explanatory lenses, I examine how published discourse regarding adoption of diversity practices is converted into action.

At a moment when constructivist scholars in international relations are pushing beyond empirical claims for the value of norms and toward critical analysis of such norms, All Necessary Measures establishes discourse's real-world explanatory power.

A three-way analysis of variance for discourse type (narrative or explanatory), familiarity of topic (familiar or unfamiliar), and language group was conducted on these scores.