Linguistic Criticism - Poetry Group

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envy22
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Can you give me a short and clear definiton of metalingual, paradigm, phatic, and conative?

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Posted by envy22 on Monday March 24, 2008 at 3:52 AM and tagged with conative, linguistic criticism - poetry, linguistic terms, metalingual, paradigm, phatic.

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  1. linda-allen Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

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    metalingual--using one chunk of text to define or explain another; using a story to define a term; related to metalanguage, which is a language used to make statements about another language. For instance, Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech is the metalanguage of despair.

    paradigm--something that serves as a pattern or model; a mindset; in grammar, it is an example of a conjugation or a declension.

    phatic--speech used to share feelings or to establish a mood of sociability. For instance, no one expects an answer to "How are you?" It is phatic speech, used only socially.

    conative--pertaining to desire or will; the power or act that directs or impels someone to effort of any kind.

    Sources:
    http://www.paradigmnouveau.com/paradigm_defined.htm
    http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/CONATION

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    Posted by linda-allen on Monday March 24, 2008 at 5:02 AM