Parataxis is a literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences, with the use of coordinating rather than subordinating conjunctions (from Greek for `act of placing side by side`; from para, `beside` and tassein, `to arrange`; contrasted to syntaxis or hypotaxis). It is also used to describe a technique in poet...
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[politics] Parataxis (Παράταξις) is a term used in the Politics of Greece to refer to a political family or partisan camp grouped around a certain major idea. This term is often used in the names of political coalitions and alliances, such as Parataxis Agroton kai Ergazomenon (Camp of Farmers and Workers, 1950 elections), Politiki ...
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organization of clauses without connectives
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linking clauses just by sequencing them, often without conjunction(s) and only by means of associations that are implied, not stated.
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• (n.) The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax.
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The psychological state or repository of attitudes, ideas, and experiences accumulated during personality development that are not effectively assimilated or integrated into the growing mass and residue of the other attitudes, ideas, and experiences of an individual's personality. ... Synonym: parataxia. ... Origin: para-+ G. Taxis, orderly arrange...
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Rhetorically juxtaposing two or more clauses or prepositions together in strings or with few or no c
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Linking clauses just by sequencing them, often without conjunction(s) and only by means of associati
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Par`a·tax'is noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... a placing beside, from ... to place beside.]
(Gram.) The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to
syntax .
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Type: Term Pronunciation: par′ă-tak′sis Definitions: 1. An older term for the psychological state or repository of attitudes, ideas, and experiences accumulated during personality development that are not effectively assimilated or integrated into the growing mass and residue of the other attitudes, ideas, and experiences of an ind...
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The use of clauses (one after the other) but without conjunctions e.g. Caesar's 'I came, I saw, I conquered'.
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parataxis, paratactic 1. The juxtaposition of clauses or phrases without the use of coordinating or subordinating conjunctions; as, 'It was cold; the snows came.' 2. The sequential ordering of proposition or clauses, without an indication of the relation (or co-ordination or subordination) between them by means of connecting words; the joining of ...
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Two or more clauses which are linked by using conjunctions, i.e. the clauses have equal status, e.g. He came home and went to bed immediately.
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