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Definition of synchronic in English: synchronicadjective sɪŋˈkrɒnɪksɪŋˈkrɑnɪk Concerned with something, especially a language, as it exists at one point in time. 共时的 共时语言学。常与DIACHRONIC 相对。 Often contrasted with diachronic Example sentencesExamples - In general, synchronic description tends to neutralize principles of continuity (which entail other principles of change), so that elements have only the significance they have in that instance.
- Often investigating history will allow us to understand why some puzzling synchronic details are the way they are.
- One of the tenets of sociolinguistics is that synchronic variation of the type illustrated here and in the examples in Chapter 3 represents a stage in long-term change.
- Furthermore, the ambiguity of distinction between species and varieties is not only a synchronic problem, reflecting some kind of contemporaneous blurring of the boundaries between taxa at these levels.
- Childs is, of course, absolutely right: The task of the interpreter is a struggle between the diachronic and the synchronic.
- It focuses on the synchronic treatment of entries and on the more concrete and practical aspects of the editorial process.
- 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.
- 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.
- It has substituted a diachronic for what should be a synchronic perspective.
- 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.
- Both the diachronic and synchronic methods of linguistic analysis live on in studying words on the Internet.
- 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.
- Ethnological concerns in turn were replaced by synchronic ethnographic research on the structure and functioning of individual societies.
- Most economic theory is synchronic - it deals with simultaneous events at one point in time.
- 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.
- He's identifying the ungrammatical strings that the grammar should not describe; he's doing modern empirical synchronic syntax.
- ‘Romanticism’ is the interpretive sense we make of Romantic-era literature by means of diachronic and synchronic narratives.
- It's clear, from diachronic and synchronic investigations, that all known languages give similar descriptions of the world.
- 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.
- But, the synchronic and diachronic become entangled in both analysis and presentation, with key theoretical points coming across jumbled and disconnected.
Synonyms concurrent, happening at the same time, done at the same time, contemporaneous, concomitant, coinciding, coincident, synchronous, synchronized
Derivativesadverb 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. Example sentencesExamples - To understand a language as a functioning system is to look at it synchronically, trying to spell out the rules and conventions of the system that make possible the forms and meanings of the language.
- 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.
- Dobson emphasised the enormous variations in speech through the period, both synchronically and diachronically, over time and region.
- Reading Scripture diachronically and synchronically, all views provided by the canon would be considered as in a kind of dialogue.
Origin1920s: from late Latin synchronus (see synchronous) + -ic. Definition of synchronic in US English: synchronicadjectivesiNGˈkräniksɪŋˈkrɑnɪk Concerned with something, especially a language, as it exists at one point in time. 共时的 共时语言学。常与DIACHRONIC 相对。 Often contrasted with diachronic Example sentencesExamples - Often investigating history will allow us to understand why some puzzling synchronic details are the way they are.
- 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.
- But, the synchronic and diachronic become entangled in both analysis and presentation, with key theoretical points coming across jumbled and disconnected.
- ‘Romanticism’ is the interpretive sense we make of Romantic-era literature by means of diachronic and synchronic narratives.
- He's identifying the ungrammatical strings that the grammar should not describe; he's doing modern empirical synchronic syntax.
- 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.
- It's clear, from diachronic and synchronic investigations, that all known languages give similar descriptions of the world.
- Childs is, of course, absolutely right: The task of the interpreter is a struggle between the diachronic and the synchronic.
- It focuses on the synchronic treatment of entries and on the more concrete and practical aspects of the editorial process.
- 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.
- One of the tenets of sociolinguistics is that synchronic variation of the type illustrated here and in the examples in Chapter 3 represents a stage in long-term change.
- Most economic theory is synchronic - it deals with simultaneous events at one point in time.
- In general, synchronic description tends to neutralize principles of continuity (which entail other principles of change), so that elements have only the significance they have in that instance.
- Both the diachronic and synchronic methods of linguistic analysis live on in studying words on the Internet.
- Furthermore, the ambiguity of distinction between species and varieties is not only a synchronic problem, reflecting some kind of contemporaneous blurring of the boundaries between taxa at these levels.
- 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.
- It has substituted a diachronic for what should be a synchronic perspective.
- 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.
- Ethnological concerns in turn were replaced by synchronic ethnographic research on the structure and functioning of individual societies.
- 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.
Synonyms concurrent, happening at the same time, done at the same time, contemporaneous, concomitant, coinciding, coincident, synchronous, synchronized
Origin1920s: from late Latin synchronus (see synchronous) + -ic. |