syntagmatic word associations. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The latter has ordinarily been supplied by the flow of events as narrated, a procedure which has lately been labelled “syntagmatic.”. From Wordnik.com. [MOTIF] Reference
Exteriorizing thought, the sonnet de-psychologizes it, materializes it, alienates it from the thinker as subject by placing any given sonnet about the beloved other in a syntagmatic relation to all other thoughts about other beloved others. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking about the Other in Romantic Love] Reference
Instead of inferring the structure of mind in general from the structure of its large-scale causal consequences (language, cultural artifacts, and so on), what it suggests is that we might infer the structure of particular minds, i.e., personalities, from their immediate causal consequences, the syntagmatic spoken chain that makes up the speech of each indi - vidual person. From Wordnik.com. [STRUCTURALISM] Reference
Roland Barthes has described the paradigmatic and syntagmatic ele - ments in 'the garment' system. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Even with a syntagmatic approach, a researcher can only hope that the data's validity holds until he / she gets a chance to make a conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Construct] Reference
A tree is a more paradigmatic symbol and grass more syntagmatic anyway, but grass is more complex in the way that it is not simply linear but it will be able to construct a complex network. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of Media, New Media MA Amsterdam] Reference
metonymic tactics, for its outrageous inventions tend to mimic the mimetic, to copy the realistic modes of representation, to link the signifiers it invents or appropriates into syntagmatic strings whose forms perform and formulate new formulae of narrative topology: structures of connection and disconnection which track like paths the trajectories and pathos of sentences until now incapable of utterance. From Wordnik.com. ["Mimetic Fiction"] Reference
Now is the time to regenerate one's sources and to look again at the aesthetic structure of art-not in terms of Koonsian economics-but closer to the point of transmission where art enters into our history as a syntagmatic signifier offering, instead of investment anxiety, a kind of solace where the syntactical transformation of material, wrought by hand, eye, and mind, again becomes a significant force in balancing the virtual chaos of the present. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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