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Glossary of Literary Theory |
Synchrony
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A term describing a mode of analysis that undertakes to describe a system
of thought or language as an existing whole without respect to its history,
its diachronic development over a long period of time. Saussurian linguistics,
for example, studies language as a functioning system of signs existing
in the here and now. (See also Structuralism.)
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