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discursive / dih-skur-siv
adjective
1. passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
2. proceeding by reasoning or argument rather than intuition.

Example: The professor's discursive lectures were very hard to follow.

Origin: 1590–1600; < ML discursīvus.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/discursive

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hmm

[nixyna.livejournal.com]

Thats funnt, I'm at university and I've onmyl ever heard it in the sense of 'discursive psychology' I didn't relaise it meant anyting else