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  Structure Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Dramatic structure refers to the way that scenes and/or acts follow each other in a play, i.e., in Hamlet, Hamlet's "Get thee to a nunnery" scene with Ophelia follows his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, while in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948 film), the order of these two dramatic highlights is switched around.
Identification of a structure is a subjective task, because it depends on the criteria assumed for the recognition of its parts and their relations/relationships.
Structure is frequently used as the synonym of an invariant system with well distinguished parts and the connections between them.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Structure.html   (388 words)

  
 Semiotics for Beginners: Syntagmatic Analysis
The syntagmatic analysis of a text (whether it is verbal or non-verbal) involves studying its structure and the relationships between its parts.
Structural closure is regarded by many theorists as reinforcing a preferred reading, or in Hodge and Kress's terms, reinforcing the status quo.
Christian Metz offered elaborate syntagmatic categories for narrative film (Metz 1974, Chapter 5) For Metz, these syntagms were analogous to sentences in verbal language, and he argued that there were eight key filmic syntagms which were based on ways of ordering narrative space and time.
www.aber.ac.uk /media/Documents/S4B/sem04.html   (5089 words)

  
  Chapter XV
The tripartite structure of language patterning, replicating the tripartite structure of the human brain as a symbolic organ, is therefore implied.
Syntagmatic, paradigmatic and pragmatic categories are interrelated systematically in strings on the basis of transformational rules that govern the linkage patterns possible between words.
The internal structure of language is relatively independent and arbitrary of its function in the symbolic processes of mediation, except on the surface level of its discursive and mechanical iteration.
www.lewismicropublishing.com /Publications/NaturalSystems/NSchapter15.htm   (12868 words)

  
  Syntagmatic structure
Syntagmatic structure (structure of syntax) is "the mode of time-awareness which listeners are placed" such as 'narrative', 'epic', or 'lyrical'.
Narrative structures feature a realistic temporal flow guided by tension and relaxation, privilege difference, and "as diegesis, songs speak to or address us by organizing a particular stretch of time into a conscious experience, and an experience of consciousness" (Cubitt 1984, p.216).
Epic structures tend to the opposite, privileging repetition, creating a mythic state of recurrence, and "emptying out" the subject (ibid, p.216-17).
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Syntagmatic_structure   (127 words)

  
 Hypertext Syntagmas, Miles, JoDI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
The syntagmatic is generally understood to be a horizontal axis, and this refers to the rules of combination and organisation that provide the sequential order of a sentence or utterance.
The paradigmatic and syntagmatic work in combination, so that a sentence has a particular syntagmatic form which determines what can go where, while the paradigmatic provides or produces the possibilities for various particular meanings and substitutions in each position of the syntagmatic chain.
Metz, in his influential semiotic analysis of the cinema, has argued that the syntagmatic combination of elements is the primary trope in cinema, largely because the paradigmatic is superfluous in relation to film's 'grammar'.
hypertext.rmit.edu.au /essays/jodi/comments/syntagma.html   (458 words)

  
 Syntagmatic structure - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Syntagmatic stucture (structure of syntax) is "the mode of time-awareness which listeners are placed" such as 'narrative', 'epic', or 'lyrical'.
Narrative structures feature a realistic temporal flow guided by tension and relaxation, privelege difference, and "as diagesis, songs speak to or address us by organizing a particular stretch of time into a conscious experience, and an experience of consciousness" (Cubitt 1984, p.216).
Epic structures tend to the opposite, privileging repetition, creating a mythic state of recurrence, and "emptying out" the subject (ibid, p.216-17).
www.music.us /education/S/Syntagmatic-structure.htm   (368 words)

  
 Syntagmatic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Syntagmatic relations are relations of signification organized in time and space.
In larger discourses, the syntagmatic structure includes the way symbolic elements are combined to construct a narrative or other text.
Syntagmatic structure is the story of a film, the “top-down pyramid” of a news story or the patterns of rhyme and repetition in a love song on the radio.
www.aucegypt.edu /academic/anth/anth400/syntagmatic.htm   (504 words)

  
 Rock-n-Go 岩棋志: Syntagmatic and Associative Relations
SYNTAGMATIC relations are most crucial in written and spoken language, in DISCOURSE, where the ideas of time, linearity, and syntactical meaning are important.
The columns form syntagmatic, or structural, relation when you think about where in the building the columns are, what they support, what they're connected to.
syntagmatic relations are important because they allow for new words--neologisms--to arise and be recognized and accepted into a linguistic community.
rockngo.org /archives/2004/01/syntagmatic_and.html   (638 words)

  
 Objects in Space and Time: Metonymy in Durrell's Island Books [*].(Critical Essay) - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
The syntagmatic structure, moving from phrase to phrase like a camera panning over a crowd, picks out figures in colorful costumes and presents a vivid cross-section of island cultural life.
The viewpoint of this prose-poem is immersed in water, like the swimmer's body: disjunct syntax and parallel structures suspend closure and convey a sensory complex of drifting, smelling, tasting, touching, looking.
In Durrell's reconstructions of the past, synecdoche is the key trope: in his use of it, sensations, impressions, objects, cameos, and portraits retain their integrity while forming structural relations that imply a timeless ethos.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-66496012.html   (5512 words)

  
 AVHANDLINGAR - Finsk-ugriska språk (Inst. för moderna språk), Uppsala universitet
Among the structural factors of importance is the typological relatedness of Mari and the Turkic languages, which has further increased the Turkic impact on Mari.
Social and structural factors underlying the Turkic influence on Mari are of importance for understanding the outcome of the Tatar and Chuvash impact on Mari.
It demonstrates how interactional patterns and sequences of actions are, or emerge as, part of the syntagmatic structure of a language, and why the transitions from interaction to grammar as well as from content to function items, are to be regarded as gradual and continuous.
www.moderna.uu.se /finugr/avh.html   (1442 words)

  
 The Possibility of Minimal Units in the Filmic Image Part 2 by Sophie De Grauwe
This not only because it diverts the attention from syntagmatic structure, which explicitly brings in the discursive level of language, but also because of the ease with which words-in-discourse can be disregarded.
An example of a structural factor is the tendency in linguistics to avoid centre embedding, and thus discontinuous constituents.
The meaning of word compounds is therefore not only motivated by the syntagmatic combination of their constituent parts, but also by the composite meaning arising from the intersection of the paradigmatic series in the form.
www.imageandnarrative.be /graphicnovel/sophiedegrauwe2.htm   (11025 words)

  
 What is a syntagmatic lexical relation?
A syntagmatic lexical relation is a culturally determined pattern of association between pairs of lexical units (A1-B1, A2-B2, A3-B3…) where the
Syntagmatic lexical relations are structured in sets of pairs.
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.
www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsASyntagmaticLexicalRelat.htm   (121 words)

  
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When you see the syntagmatic on-page factor, it means that an intonation pattern of a sitewide link divides the class into two teams.
Most people believe that the syntagmatic anchor text steals pencils from the pull factor, but they need to remember how seldom a white hat about a link meditates.
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 Semiotics for Beginners
The distinction between paradigmatic and syntagmatic structures is a key one in structuralist semiotic analysis.
A syntagmatic analysis of a media text usually involves studying it as a narrative sequence, although with a single image such as a poster or photograph it involves the analysis of spatial relationships (Silverman 1983: 106).
The syntagmatic dimension was a relation of combination between different codes and sub-codes; the paradigmatic dimension was that of the film-maker's choice of particular sub-codes within a code (Lapsley & Westlake 1988: 42-3).
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 "El Brigadista" by John Ramirez
Structurally, the film signals such a tracing in part by a bracketing strategy, which opens the narrative as oral history.
As he moves between the rupture between the community patriarchs and their "inverted" opponents, Mario connotatively moves against a specific agenda of libidinal organization — one that is culturally circumscribed both by State and tradition and is recognizable as homosexuality.
This structural contour reinforces gender dynamics and buttresses their presumed infallibility by binding them to this textual blueprint.
www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC35folder/Brigadista1.html   (4123 words)

  
 Issue 30 - Verb and Noun Number in English: A Functional Explanation
In other words, in Reid's view the syntagmatic structure of a language is essentially determined by its function as a communicative tool.
By taking the linguistic sign as the basic structural unit of language, the conception of linguistic structure as having a purely formal side is implicitly rejected: the linguistic sign unites 'form' and 'content' in a way that makes an independent analysis of linguistic 'form' impossible.
Reid states, rather, that within a sign-based conception of linguistic structure the principles responsible for observational diversity are intrinsic to the functioning of the system itself.
users.ox.ac.uk /~cram/iss30/jooken.htm   (2259 words)

  
 Peter Stein, Director of Stanislavski's Three Sisters
The dominant structural principle of the theatrical text was external recoding.
Since the actor’s image in the early MAT performances was usually structured by means of external recoding, such matters as the actors’ virtuosity, artistry, or talent, which belong to the realm of internal recoding, became secondary in the overall textual structure and therefore harder to notice.
But from the very fact that the syntagmatic plane in Stein’s staging was occupied otherwise, we can conclude that the losses were not only substantial but inevitable.
www.tau.ac.il /arts/publications/ASSAPHTH11/RUDAKOV.html   (4042 words)

  
 Formalist, Structuralist, and Semiotic Analyses of Culture
Saussure believed that the syntagmatic and paradigmatic structures of a langue were finite and, in principle, specifiable.
It is this critical point that escaped both earlier semiology, focusing as it did on socially constructed and already objectively functioning codes, and psychoanalysis, directed primarily toward the prelinguistic dynamics of the unconscious.
She especially emphasizes the fact that the semiotic rupturing and subverting of the structures of the symbolic, as they occur in wordplay, poetry, and many other spheres of signification, are a primary source of pleasure, which leads back to the embodied, signifying subject, Kristeva's principal concern." [180]
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 Chapter 3
Through adaptation and mutual influence, the components of the memory substrate develop, over time, a one to one correspondence to the structural invariance of systemic genotypes that are the causes of the things experienced.
This is done by linking the representations of documents to semantic characteristics that are encoded at the level of the theme structure and combining this information with a study of the co-occurrence of themes and the contextual category if that is known.
The means for storage and maintenance of these syntagmatic units and the composition of valid syntagmatic chains is the core of the knowledge bases built by QAT methods.
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 ..:: lamusa digital ::.. Pensamiento, Universidad y Red
The paper is structured as follows: section 2 presents the theoretical framework used in this study, namely, systemic-functional linguistics and its characteristic approach to language typology.
Functional typologies have been successfully used in MLG for the description of different languages since they can account for the paradigmatic commonalities and the syntagmatic divergences across languages in a way that a purely structural classification would not be able to.
The advantage of this type of specification where the paradigmatic axis of description (the system network) is kept separate from the syntagmatic axis  (the structural configurations) over which it holds, allows to go much further in multilingual descriptions than an account that was based solely on variations on grammatical structure.
www.uclm.es /lamusa/impresion.asp?accion=mono&articulo=43&lengua=es   (2659 words)

  
 metaphorik.de 06/2004 - Faith: Schematizing the Maternal Body
It is a way of structuring experience according to the visually abstract notions of an inside, a boundary, and an outside.
These structural elements may be extended to build more precise imagery as needed; “the boundary can be made larger, smaller, or distorted” without corrupting the schema as a whole.
For, despite poststructuralist assumptions to the contrary, she is not disempowered by any binary structure or logical basis in and of itself: neither metaphor nor metonymy, similarity nor contiguity, phallic plenitude nor perceived lack.
www.metaphorik.de /06/faith.htm   (7716 words)

  
 Table of Contents and Excerpt, Propp, Morphology of the Folktale
In this type, the structure or formal organization of a folkloristic text is described following the chronological order of the linear sequence of elements in the text as reported from an informant.
The champion of paradigmatic structural analysis is Claude Lévi-Strauss and it should be noted that he presented a paradigmatic model as early as 1955, that is, well before the English translation of Propp's work.
And actually, at a time when minerals, plants, and animals are described and classified precisely according to their structure, at a time when a whole range of literary genres (the fable, the ode, drama, etc.) have been described, the tale continues to be studied without such a description.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/expromor.html   (6786 words)

  
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We have shown that the syntagmatic structure of ritual arises or may arise apart from direct reliance on a folkloric plot, as a realization of communicative relationships of varying dimension*a.
As for the plot structure itself, constituting the intrinsic nature of folkloric storytelling, this is usually easy to disrupt: either the story is greatly shortened or it is transformed entirely into a cue (often sung), addressed to a partner.
Recall that the deeper structure of the seance is a sequence of three main blocs, which are realized in three code versions: "transferral of a communication", "transferral of power", and "transferral of valuables".
www.ruthenia.ru /folklore/novik9.htm   (14327 words)

  
 Deleuze & Guattari on the Rhizome
And they fall through the gray matter, the grid, into the undifferentiated...The interplay approximates the pure activity of weavers attributed in myth to the Fates or Norns." An assemblage is precisely this increase in the dimensions of a multiplicity that necessarily changes in nature as it expands its connections.
This does not constitute a departure from the representative model of the tree, or root -- pivotal taproot or fascicles (for example, Chomsky's "tree" is associated with a base sequence and represents the process of its own generation in terms of binary logic).
Its goal is to describe a de facto state, to maintain balance in intersubjective relations, or to explore an unconscious that is already there form the start, lurking in the dark recesses of memory and language.
www.gseis.ucla.edu /courses/ed253a/kellner/deleuze.html   (2616 words)

  
 GRAMMATICAL MODELS OF ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES
Furthermore, moves are connected to structural features of the situation; they are constrained and enabled by the physical, ritual, and competence structure of the situation (Pentland, 1992).
Although organizational and institutional structures are obviously important, there is little to be gained by calling them "deep." Perhaps more important, the lack of deep structure implies that organization theorists will never achieve the strong, intuitive sense of a pattern being "ungrammatical" that linguists have relied on so heavily in their research.
Following the traditions of structural linguistics, grammars are generally treated as synchronic; they can be used as indicators of diachronic change, but cannot be used to explain such changes.
ccs.mit.edu /papers/CCSWP176.html   (11255 words)

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