Adorno's "parataxis" is one possibility, which (parataxis) is linked by. From Wordnik.com. [Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Gender and Ambition in Literature « Gender Across Borders] Reference
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 word order. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Saying Something] Reference
How might a permeable editorial screen that allows for error, parataxis, and the non sequitur serve as the basis for a hybrid kind of writing that is at once critical and autobiographical, factual and fictional?. From Wordnik.com. [Barf Manifesto is out!!!] Reference
Now still thinking out lout about the avant-lyric which must be lyric untethered, not relying on metaphor, making another kind of sense, and aware of the new sentence, of lyric modulations, of parataxis, collage...all the technologies of the past few decades. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
De Man's ending needs to introduce these explicitly rhetorical terms — parataxis, caesura, figural style, and others — because the discontinuous temporality his reading of Hölderlin has disclosed is one whose reversals can no longer be accounted for in ontological terms. From Wordnik.com. [Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History] Reference
Roughly speaking, it is true to say that in the Greek of the LXX there is no syntax, only parataxis. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference
Brownback was perfectly comprehensible, and intonation does a lot of what indirect quotation and parataxis do on the page. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
As parataxis (loose relationships between clauses) gives way to hypotaxis, there is a need for pronouns to signal the union between clauses. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The opposite of parataxis is hypotaxis, the marking of relations between propositions and clause by connectives that point backward or forward. From Wordnik.com. [Writing for the Web] Reference
The opposite of parataxis is hypotaxis, the marking of relations between propositions and clause by connectives that point backward or forward. From Wordnik.com. [Corrente] Reference
There is a technical term for this kind of writing - parataxis, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the placing of propositions or clauses one after the other without indicating ... the relation of co-ordination or subordination between them.". From Wordnik.com. [Writing for the Web] Reference
"There is a technical term for this kind of writing - parataxis, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as 'the placing of propositions or clauses one after the other without indicating ... the relation of co-ordination or subordination between them.'". From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
There is a technical term for this kind of writing - parataxis, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the placing of propositions or clauses one after the other without indicating ... the relation of co-ordination or subordination between them.". From Wordnik.com. [Corrente] Reference
I expect a respite from the difficult, yet exhilarating ellipses, parataxis, and palimpsest I am reading in Rosmarie Waldrop’s The Reproduction of Profiles. From Wordnik.com. [Emily Carr on Mary Ruefle] Reference
XI, iii), a spiritual regenerative force that was visibiy increasing its activity, and then only to brand the Christians with the reproach of obstinacy (parataxis), the highest social crime in the eyes of Roman authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Nadja and his long poem Arcanum 17 are above and beyond the explorations of psychology and automatism that he wrote on so extensively, but rather given a precursive acceptance of Blake's poetic genius exhibit the ways that such methods as aleatory and parataxis, which are so much a part of the writing of our present, might be saved from their essentially materialist origins and infused with spirit almost akin to the sumi-e painting style that derives its inspiration from the Zen Buddhist notion of satori. From Wordnik.com. [Wet Asphalt] Reference
An exercise in parataxis. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » In Defense of the Office of Legal Counsel:] Reference
Nice parataxis, Anderson. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » In Defense of the Office of Legal Counsel:] Reference
) Brian, try looking up “parataxis.”. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - 5 words my poetry professor used during today’s lecture.] Reference
I have always understood the taxis, genera, parataxis and entaxis of classical architecture (no, I refer not to cabriolets for hire) form an L-system, and by replacing the entire space a building occupies with it major parts (building - roof, walls, floor), and each of those parts by its component parts (wall - column, window, column, door, column, window, column) , and so on (column - entablature, capital, shaft, base) down to the elements themselves (ionic capital - abacus, volutes, echinus), one can describe an entire grammar of classical architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Cartography] Reference
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