Discussant vs Commentator - What's the difference?
discussant | commentator |
Someone involved in a discussion, especially a participant in a formal discussion or who has been assigned a particular role or topic.
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*2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 319:
*:The prominence given to readers' responses to topical issues [...] made concrete the sense of belonging to a large, active, and opinionated community of discussants .
A person who comments; especially someone who is paid to give his/her opinions in the media about current affairs, sports, etc.
As nouns the difference between discussant and commentator
is that discussant is someone involved in a discussion, especially a participant in a formal discussion or who has been assigned a particular role or topic while commentator is a person who comments; especially someone who is paid to give his/her opinions in the media about current affairs, sports, etc.discussant
English
Noun
(en noun)- I would like to thank Cynthia Ruder, whose comments as panel discussant helped me to rework my original paper.