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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Difference between discussion, conversation and discourse?
Hello,
I did look them up in a dictionary and Googled them, too, but I'm still not sure about their shades of meaning.
Could you help me, please?
Thank you very much.
(And am I right thinking that a conversation is less focussed and serious than a discussion? Or is discussion a more limited term, with a meaning which conversation also covers?
And when you hear the word discussion, does that necessarily imply confronting arguments on a matter, or it can be used also in situations where it is mainly one person who is asking questions and another is answering them?)
I did look them up in a dictionary and Googled them, too, but I'm still not sure about their shades of meaning.
Could you help me, please?
Thank you very much.
(And am I right thinking that a conversation is less focussed and serious than a discussion? Or is discussion a more limited term, with a meaning which conversation also covers?
And when you hear the word discussion, does that necessarily imply confronting arguments on a matter, or it can be used also in situations where it is mainly one person who is asking questions and another is answering them?)
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And am I right thinking that a conversation is less focussed and serious than a discussion ? -- Yes, I think that is a good general distinction. Or is discussion a more limited term, with a meaning which conversation also covers?
- And am I right thinking that a conversation is less focussed and serious than a discussion ?
- -- Yes, I think that is a good general distinction.
- Or is discussion a more limited term, with a meaning which conversation also covers?
- -- I think they overlap, like non-concentric circles.
- And when you hear the word discussion , does that necessarily imply confronting arguments on a matter,-- No.
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And am I right thinking that a conversation is less focussed and serious than a discussion? -- Yes, I think that is a good general distinction.
Or is discussion a more limited term, with a meaning which conversation also covers? -- I think they overlap, like non-concentric circles.
And when you hear the word discussion, does that
Or is discussion a more limited term, with a meaning which conversation also covers? -- I think they overlap, like non-concentric circles.
And when you hear the word discussion, does that
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