Ann: June 2017 Appendix 4C - Quarterly, page-7

There's discursive and then there's discursive.

dis|cur¦sive
[dɪsˈkəːsɪv]

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ADJECTIVE

1. digressing from subject to subject:
   "students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose"
   synonyms: rambling · digressive · meandering · wandering ·
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   maundering · diffuse · long · lengthy · circuitous · roundabout · circumlocutory · periphrastic · verbose · long-winded · prolix · wordy · waffly · pleonastic · logorrhoeic · ambagious
   antonyms: concise
   • (of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive:
     "the short story is concentrated, whereas the novel is discursive"
     synonyms: fluent · flowing · fluid · eloquent · articulate ·
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     elegant · expansive
     antonyms: terse
2. relating to discourse or modes of discourse:
   "the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another"
3. philosophy
   archaic
   proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition.

ORIGIN
late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally ‘gone hastily to and fro’, from the verb discurrere (see discourse).

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