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Of, relating to, or exhibiting a literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences, without the use of coordinating or subordinating conjunctions

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  • This is often called the paratactic account of indirect speech reports.
  • On 14 February 2008 with 9 comments explicate discursive paratactic trope quotidian
  • ˜Content and context: The paratactic theory revisited and revised™ Mind 102: 429-54.
  • There is a final problem that faces the paratactic account that we shall briefly discuss.
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