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Coordinate ranging of clauses, phrases, or words one after another without coordinating connectives (as in "he laughed; she cried").

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  • Adorno's "parataxis" is one possibility, which (parataxis) is linked by
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • One feels directly the force of his constant wordplay, the artful balancing of his clauses, his laconic use of parataxis, and his deliberate involutions of thought and...
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