counterdiscursive

English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ discursive.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv

Adjective

counterdiscursive (comparative more counterdiscursive, superlative most counterdiscursive)

1. (social sciences) Opposing or countering a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.
   • 2001, Petra Fachinger, Rewriting Germany from the Margins, page 5:

     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.

   • 2003, Dorothy E. Mosby, Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature, page 27:

     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.

   • 2008, Lesleigh J. Owen, Living large in a size medium world, page 134:

     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.