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written or spoken communication or debate. (oxford dictionary)It is important to distinguish Foucault's use of the category, a discourse, from contemporary uses of the term 'discourse'. For within the human sciences this term is becoming embarrassingly overloaded and more likely to induce confusion than any clarity it might originally have been set to produce (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/txt/discours.htm).

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