Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The juxtaposition of clauses or phrases without the use of coordinating or subordinating conjunctions, as It was cold; the snows came.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, the ranging of propositions one after another without connectives, as the corresponding judgments present themselves to the mind without marking their dependence or relations on each other by way of consequence or the like. It is opposed to syntax and hypotaxis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to
syntax .
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- noun grammar Speech or writing in which
clauses orphrases are placed together without being separated byconjunctions , for example "I came; I saw; I conquered". - noun literature The juxtaposition of two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar, without a clear connection
- noun politics In Greek political system: coalition, "partisan camp"
Etymologies
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Examples
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Adorno's "parataxis" is one possibility, which (parataxis) is linked by
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It's got what linguists call parataxis, where you run phrases together without smoothing out the transitions with conjunctions and such: "We go at Iraq and it says to countries ..." instead of "If we go at Iraq, then it says to countries ..." or the way the
The New Republic - All Feed John McWhorter 2010
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Many of the traits Otto Jespersen wrote of as characteristic of female language without considering them innovative such as parataxis and lack of punctuation have since been associated with experimental writing.
Gender and Ambition in Literature « Gender Across Borders 2009
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You can see the hyper-priming, free-associative effect at play when Doyle adds that "cannabis induces a parataxis wherein sentences resonate together and summon coherence in the bardos between one statement and other, rather than through explicit semantics."
Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought" Jason Silva 2011
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Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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Now it's not merely literary strategies that are picked apart and turned around through unreliable narrators, disordered chronologies, the blurring of fact and fiction, extreme parataxis, etc.
Saying Something 2010
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As a poet I naturally transform any intimate details into otherness through character, metaphor and parataxis.
Melissa Broder: No Alarms and No Surprises: Coming Out to Parents as a Writer (and a Human) 2010
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As a poet I naturally transform any intimate details into otherness through character, metaphor and parataxis.
Melissa Broder: No Alarms and No Surprises: Coming Out to Parents as a Writer (and a Human) 2010
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As a poet I naturally transform any intimate details into otherness through character, metaphor and parataxis.
Melissa Broder: No Alarms and No Surprises: Coming Out to Parents as a Writer (and a Human) 2010
qms commented on the word parataxis
A little word trips, hampers, attacks us.
Resist; adopt a disciplined practice.
Conjunctivitis
Never will blight us,
Defended by sharp paralaxis.
July 2, 2017