Thursday, November 13, 2008
Questions reading 2.4
This reading passage tells us about structures and of which they are divided into two groups, first is syntagmatic and the second is paradigmatic. As i read through the chapter, i found that it only refers to the 3 general types of the syntagmatic structure. (argument, montage, and narrative) my question is, what about the paradigmatic structure? is it not catagorized into various types aswell?
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Hi M-
Good question. It shows your reading carefully."syntagmatic" simply refers to the structure of syntax. "Individual signs can be collected together to form more complex signs, i.e. building up from linguistics, groups of sounds (and the letters to represent them) form words, groups of words form sentences, sentences form narratives, etc. The constructed signs are called syntagms (see syntagmatic structure) and each collection may be a paradigm. Thus, in the English language, the alphabet is the paradigm from which the syntagms of English words are formed. The set of English words collected together in a lexicon become the paradigm from which sentences are formed, etc. Hence, paradigmatic analysis is a method for exploring a syntagm by identifying its constituent paradigm, studying the individual paradigmatic elements, and then reconstructing the process by which the syntagm takes on meaning." for more see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigmatic_analysis Hope this helps.
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