nondiscursive en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + discursive.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not discursive.
This viewpoint is especially relevant to the interpretation of such things as the dance, music, religious ritual, and the representative arts. In all of these, one person can enter into a significant relationship with another by means of a nondiscursive sign system. Using a pharmaceutical analogy, it is as if the language—dance, art, etc.—were the vehicle in which the active ingredient—human contact—is suspended and contained.
1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 8, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 135: