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Meaning of "parataxis" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PARATAXIS

New Latin from Greek, from paratassein, literally: to arrange side by side, from para-1 + tassein to arrange.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PARATAXIS

parataxis  [ˌpærəˈtæksɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARATAXIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Parataxis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PARATAXIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Parataxis

Parataxis is a literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences, with the use of coordinating rather than subordinating conjunctions. It is also used to describe a technique in poetry in which two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar images or fragments, are juxtaposed without a clear connection. Readers are then left to make their own connections implied by the paratactic syntax. Ezra Pound, in his adaptation of Chinese and Japanese poetry, made the stark juxtaposition of images an important part of English language poetry.

Definition of parataxis in the English dictionary

The definition of parataxis in the dictionary is the juxtaposition of clauses in a sentence without the use of a conjunction, as for example None of my friends stayed — they all left early.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARATAXIS


aerotaxis
ˌɛərəʊˈtæksɪs
chemotaxis
ˌkɛməʊˈtæksɪs
cytotaxis
ˌsaɪtəʊˈtæksɪs
epistaxis
ˌɛpɪˈstæksɪs
geotaxis
ˌdʒiːəʊˈtæksɪs
heliotaxis
ˌhiːlɪəʊˈtæksɪs
heterotaxis
ˌhɛtərəʊˈtæksɪs
homotaxis
ˌhəʊməʊˈtæksɪs
hydrotaxis
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈtæksɪs
hypotaxis
ˌhaɪpəʊˈtæksɪs
phototaxis
ˌfəʊtəʊˈtæksɪs
phyllotaxis
ˌfɪləˈtæksɪs
rheotaxis
ˌriːəˈtæksɪs
stereotaxis
ˌstɛrɪəˈtæksɪs
taxis
ˈtæksɪs
telotaxis
ˌteləʊˈtæksɪs
thermotaxis
ˌθɜːməʊˈtæksɪs
thigmotaxis
ˌθɪɡməˈtæksɪs
trophotaxis
ˌtrɒfəʊˈtæksɪs
tropotaxis
ˌtrəʊpəʊˈtæksɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARATAXIS

parasynthetic
parasyntheton
paratactic
paratactical
paratactically
parataniwha
paratha
paratheses
parathesis
parathion
parathormone
parathyroid
parathyroid gland
parathyroid hormone
paratonic
paratroop
paratroopers
paratroops
paratyphoid
paratyphoid fever

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARATAXIS

anaphylaxis
axis
chemoprophylaxis
major axis
minor axis
neutral axis
optic axis
orthoaxis
parapraxis
phylaxis
polar axis
praxis
principal axis
prophylaxis
sparaxis
synaxis
tachyphylaxis
x-axis
y-axis
z-axis

Synonyms and antonyms of parataxis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «parataxis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARATAXIS

Find out the translation of parataxis to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of parataxis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «parataxis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

意合
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

parataxis
570 millions of speakers

English

parataxis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

parataxis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

parataxis
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

паратаксис
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

parataxis
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংযোজক অব্যয় ছাড়াই সংশ্লিষ্ট উপবাক্যসমূহ স্থাপন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

parataxe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Parataxis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Parataxe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

parataxis
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

parataxis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Parataxis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

la liệt cú pháp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இணைப்புச் சொல் இன்றி, சொற்றொடர்களைப் பயன்படுத்துதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पॅराटेक्सिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

parataxis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

paratassi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

parataksy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

паратаксис
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

parataxă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παράταξη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

parataxis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

parataxis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

paratakse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of parataxis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARATAXIS»

The term «parataxis» is normally little used and occupies the 137.778 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARATAXIS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about parataxis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARATAXIS»

Discover the use of parataxis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to parataxis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Analyzing Prose: Second Edition
Chapter. 2. Parataxis. and. Hypotaxis. A STYLE'S CHARACTERISTIC MANNER of connecting its elements provides an easy way to recognize it. Whatever units a writer chooses to work with - phrases, clauses, or complete sentences - he or ...
Richard Lanham, 2003
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The Ends of Theory
Parataxis is the dominant mode of postindustrial experience. It is difficult to escape from atomized subject areas, projects, and errands into longer, connected stretches of subjectively meaningful narrative — not to mention life. As objects of the ...
Jerry Herron, 1996
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A Theory of Syntax for Systemic Functional Linguistics
2.6 Some later additions to the S&C model: 'parataxis' and 'hypotaxis', 'depth' and 'type' 2.6.1 'Parataxis' and 'hypotaxis' In the next chapter we shall meet the set of ideas that were to change the S&C framework into the new theory of Systemic ...
Robin P. Fawcett, 2000
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The Doppelgänger: Literature's Philosophy
However, if the endlessness of subjection is viewed as a finite infinite, and if subjection is examined in relation to hypotaxis—and, hence, also to parataxis— then writing will come to intervene in the endlessness of the dialectic. And with writing ...
Dimitris Vardoulakis, 2010
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Hölderlin After the Catastrophe: Heidegger, Adorno, Brecht
2: Polemic: Adorno,. "Parataxis". Doch ah sich ihre Gewande beriihrt, Und keiner vernehmen konnte Die eigene Rede des andern, ware wohl Entstanden ein Zwist, wenn nicht aus Zweigen herunter Gekommen ware die Kiihlung. [But when  ...
Robert Ian Savage, 2008
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Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy ...
ond is at odds with Leso's conclusions: Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca oppose the "greater freedom" of parataxis to the way in which hypotaxis "controls the reader, forces . . . and constricts interpretations," and attribute to parataxis the ...
Barbara Spackman, 1996
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Novelists and Novels
singular or original mode, except that Hemingway evokes by parataxis, in the manner of Whitman, or of much in the English Bible. This is parataxis with a difference, a way of utterance that plays at a withdrawal from all affect, while actually ...
Harold Bloom, 2009
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Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in Honor ...
and (logical) parataxis in the same series, with hypotaxis intermediate between circumstantiation in the clause and parataxis: Enhancement favours circumstantiation whereas extension and elaboration favour parataxis. Within these very ...
Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, 2002
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Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
In section 10.2 we outline the traditional view that hypotaxis develops out of parataxis and discuss several interpretations of it; in section 10.3 we develop a simple alternative hypothesis. Section 10.4 provides a treatment of the relationship of ...
Alice C. Harris, Lyle Campbell, 1995
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Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance
Parataxis, then, 'was clearly the preferred form for narrative of all kinds' in the Middle Ages, 'the form readers and auditors expected and enjoyed'.228 Hence we can likewise only see it as one possible romance feature, albeit a much less ...
Kevin Sean Whetter, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARATAXIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term parataxis is used in the context of the following news items.
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Parataxis and Ponzi Schemes MARGARITA MEKLINA and …
Wreckage of Reason II: Back to the Drawing Board is an anthology of contemporary experimental women's writing. The anthology, as Leora ... «Brooklyn Rail, Jul 15»
2
Cochrane unveils commercial condo in prime location
Meadows Mile Professional Centre has been designed by Andrew Martschenko of Parataxis Design with Calgary architect David Lachapelle in ... «Calgary Herald, Jun 15»
3
Much to learn from Yoda, public speakers still have
Hypotaxis, where subordinate clauses dangle off one another, is harder to digest than parataxis, where one thing follows another. If the glue in ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
4
The Prison House of Post-Internet Poetry: A Critical Look at the …
If you do look past the symptoms of a democratized avant-garde, and the banalization of certain radical procedures (from parataxis to ... «Hyperallergic, May 15»
5
Poems by JH Prynne review – 'the ultimate poet of “anti-pathos”'
It begins in medias res, like an overheard conversation, and uses parataxis to shuttle between the human and the natural worlds. This poem ... «The Guardian, May 15»
6
This Female Consciousness: On Chris Kraus
Parataxis is a strange literary form, born at the beginning of the Middle Ages … Flashing back and sideways, holding back the outcome of ... «The New Yorker, Apr 15»
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“Quirky Things That Happen to Me”: More Notes on Recent Poetry …
In John Coletti's case, that would be, I reckon, The Tennis Court Oath — challenging prey. Disjunction and parataxis are at a premium here, ... «Hyperallergic, Mar 15»
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Protean Nature: Paul Chan on Failure, Erotic Fiction, and the Hugo …
Parataxis is a useful concept when considering Chan's career, which includes experiments in projection (Sade and “The Seven Lights” series, ... «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Mar 15»
9
Intermission: Problems like Maria
She employs parataxis to conquer fear, creating long lists of happy thoughts that comfort the children during a thunderstorm, and these happy ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
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Father John Misty's I Love You Honeybear challenges notions of …
Tillman's new album I Love You, Honeybear, his second release under the Misty moniker, takes this penchant for parataxis to the extreme; it's a ... «Daily Trojan Online, Feb 15»

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