With the increasing amount of debate around the postmodern condition and the limits of scientific knowledge, many social science practitioners have questionned the discursive dimensions of their intellectual undertakings. In geography, issues have been raised on different aspects of geographical discourse: 1) geographical discourse as an analytical object, 2) terminological and conceptual innovation as a means to bypass the resistances of the object or of language itself, 3) a new writing style: authorial positioning, form, and discursive strategies. In so doing, there is a growing recognition of the shorth comings of a discursive rationality which considers language as a mere vehicle for expressing thought transitively. This partial and relative transformation of geographical discourse, which is illustrated by some examples, is interpreted as a response to the debates linked to what has been referred to as post modernity in social science.