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Taxonomy vs Counterdiscursive - What's the difference?

taxonomy | counterdiscursive |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective counterdiscursive is

(social sciences) opposing or countering a discourse, or institutionalized way of thinking.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    counterdiscursive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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.