Syntagmatic and paradigmatic approach to parallelism in literary texts

Abstract

This study investigates syntagmatic and paradigmatic approach to linguistic parallelism in literary texts. These approaches in the literary texts assist us to look into thoroughly all linguistic levels within parallel structure. The paradigmatic aspect of parallelism bases on selection of both equivalences and contrasts while its syntagmatic aspect bases on combination or arrangements of sequences in literary texts. In the poems horizontal line shows syntagmatic principle and vertical line shows paradigmatic principle.  These principles help us to analyze parallelism at syntagma and sentence level. In syntagmatic level various syntagmas consisting of segments such as phoneme, word and grammatical word combination combine in line to emphasize rhetorical effect. In paradigmatic line we notice selected paralelisms in different sentence structures to focus on main idea within lines.