How To Use Diachronic In A Sentence
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Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.
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On the other hand, there is the danger that, as folklorists (to use the jargon) adopt a more synchronic approach, some of the virtues of their more diachronically-oriented predecessors will be forgotten.
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Dobson emphasised the enormous variations in speech through the period, both synchronically and diachronically, over time and region.
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By structuring the course around questions of genre migration, world literature allows students to think about the novel, epic, and lyric in a diachronic, global framework.
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But, unfortunately, economics isn't good at diachronic comparisons (ones between points in time), for much the same reason as it hasn't been very good with such things as the environment.
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Again, all of this was fundamental to the epistemological changes by which Western natural science was established, and the reorganization of attention in the 19th century thus had deep diachronic roots.
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In addition to placing English in a diachronic chain of invader-turned-native languages, Rao argues for an Indian English in a synchronic relation with American English and Irish English.
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Paradoxically, however, I felt at the same time a real need to explain their story through a fuller understanding of its historical context - admittedly a synchronic, rather than a diachronic, concern.
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Reading Scripture diachronically and synchronically, all views provided by the canon would be considered as in a kind of dialogue.
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Currently, linguists generally prefer the synchronic study of spoken language to the diachronic comparison of words in texts, and have tended to regard philology as pre-scientific.
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Childs is, of course, absolutely right: The task of the interpreter is a struggle between the diachronic and the synchronic.
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Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.
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The diachronic study of language, or study of the structure of language over a period of time, prevailed over the synchronic study of language, or study of language at a moment in time.
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Currently, linguists generally prefer the synchronic study of spoken language to the diachronic comparison of words in texts, and have tended to regard philology as pre-scientific.
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It's clear, from diachronic and synchronic investigations, that all known languages give similar descriptions of the world.
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Though let me stress that what I have offered here is not an expert opinion; I have done no serious quantitative work on this topic, and I have no real expertise in diachronic lexical semantics.
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In essence, then, Steck calls for both a diachronic and synchronic reading of Isaiah.
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The relationship between these optimistic and pessimistic strains can be seen, in diachronic terms, as a struggle for ideological dominance throughout the nineteenth century.
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In addition to placing English in a diachronic chain of invader-turned-native languages, Rao argues for an Indian English in a synchronic relation with American English and Irish English.
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What we may think of as the old, positivist pursuit of diachronic sound change was, in the last third of the nineteenth century, the new new thing (recall that it was from the Neogrammarians that Saussure emerged).
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Utilizing both a diachronic and synchronic analysis, one can note the respective contexts and then further describe how these synchronic tensions have served readers of a collection.
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The distinction between ritual and ceremony as pointed out by Alan Wald can then be analysed from a diachronic and a synchronic point of view.
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From a diachronic viewpoint, languages seem to change from being more pragmatic to more syntactic; from a synchronic perspective, different languages may simply be at different stages of this evolutional circle.
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But, the synchronic and diachronic become entangled in both analysis and presentation, with key theoretical points coming across jumbled and disconnected.
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One thinks of Mikhail Bakhtin's chronotypes, which introduced synchrony into the heavily diachronic tradition of literary history.
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The strands of causation comprising this web, as I have termed it, interact with one another in time: there is a diachronic and contingent aspect to causation that must be accounted for.
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In extending the lesson given us through our redactor-as-author to other texts, we can hope to avoid treating certain texts only diachronically or synchronically.
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The study's argument is shaped diachronically, early versus late Austen, but the contrast is not mechanically developmental.
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Lastly, comparative to logical inference, the law of causation is rooted the diachronic connection between two empiristic facts.
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The spatial separation of these informational elements, however, requires that their connection happen diachronically through time rather than synchronically, or at a single point within time.
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The first diachronic Dutch Book Argument in support of a principle of conditionalization was reported by Teller, who credited David Lewis.
Bayesian Epistemology
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The claim that there is a key diachronic element to the justification of memory belief has come to be known as preservationism.
Epistemological Problems of Memory
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Rapley balances this diachronic argument with a more synchronic survey of convent life and the teaching activities of the nuns.
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As we saw in section 3.4, the Second Analogy of Experience, if true, guarantees both the objectivity and the universal diachronic or temporally successive causal necessitation of objects of experience and all of their parts under natural laws.
Kant's Theory of Judgment
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What is missing from such an approach is a diachronic perspective that can explain how this distribution evolved.
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‘Romanticism’ is the interpretive sense we make of Romantic-era literature by means of diachronic and synchronic narratives.
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Most finite verbal forms diachronically derive from nominalizations and periphrastic constructions with auxiliary verbs.
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Garin approached history in the diachronic mode, paying special attention to dynamism and change, and seeking to illuminate the relationship between particular origins and particular outcomes.
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It has substituted a diachronic for what should be a synchronic perspective.
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It's clear, from diachronic and synchronic investigations, that all known languages give similar descriptions of the world.
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We already know synchronic and diachronic are out - but what of aporia and synecdoche?
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The distinction between ritual and ceremony as pointed out by Alan Wald can then be analysed from a diachronic and a synchronic point of view.
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This definition exemplifies the turn towards a more diachronic and sociological focus in textual scholarship, and offers a conceptual rubric marked by bibliographic and theoretical rigour.
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diachronic linguistics
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Both the diachronic and synchronic methods of linguistic analysis live on in studying words on the Internet.
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Each can be studied synchronically or diachronically and the order in which they have been dealt with within a grammar has fluctuated over the years.
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‘Romanticism’ is the interpretive sense we make of Romantic-era literature by means of diachronic and synchronic narratives.
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He was also interested to find out if colligations might change over time, which would have to be done using diachronic corpora.
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Each can be studied synchronically or diachronically and the order in which they have been dealt with within a grammar has fluctuated over the years.
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In Hartley's theory, the associations in a complex action or idea are synchronic, while the associations in a decomplex action or idea are diachronic.
David Hartley
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He sees no gap but continuity with other species, both diachronically and synchronically.
The Times Literary Supplement
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From a diachronic viewpoint, languages seem to change from being more pragmatic to more syntactic; from a synchronic perspective, different languages may simply be at different stages of this evolutional circle.
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The relation between the selves is synchronic, not diachronic; it is also a relation of chiasmic exchange, like that between eye and text, or voice and ear.
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Diachronic versus synchronic approaches vied with endocentric versus exocentric to confound the neophyte.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2
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Reading Scripture diachronically and synchronically, all views provided by the canon would be considered as in a kind of dialogue.
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Among them, discourse space, historical space and subject space respectively contributes to the attainment of the real presence, diachronic and individuality of aesthetic understanding.
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However, if a thematic rather than diachronic approach is chosen, historical events have to be recapitulated to explain the setting of individual subjects.
