ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The syntagmatic relationship is seen along the horizontal axis and the paradigmatic relationship is seen along the vertical axis.

Detailed explanation-2: -The distinction is a key one in structuralist semiotic analysis. These two dimensions are often presented as ‘axes’, where the horizontal axis is the syntagmatic and the vertical axis is the paradigmatic.

Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of syntagmatic relation are abstract – concept, edit – film, team – sport, and occur – phenomenon; and examples of paradigmatic relation encompass adjust – modify, edit – revise, assent – agreement, abstract – summary, and edit – revise.

Detailed explanation-4: -In structuralist semiotics, an analytical dimension spatialized as a vertical plane representing a set of alternative signifiers which would be syntagmatically legitimate in a given structural context.

Detailed explanation-5: -Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic axes refer to the axes of selection and combination respectively, where syntagmatic denotes the relationship of units/words in a linear pattern, while ‘paradigmatic, axis constitutes of the interchangeable units in a language.