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paradigm

paradigm

1 8.7
Words that can replace each other in the same sentence position
  • noun
  • /ˈpærəˌdaɪm/
  • Specialized
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  • Today we're going to be talking about MapReduce, which is kind of a programming paradigm for doing large scale computations across a computing cluster.
  • dual-task paradigm
  • task paradigm
  • linguistic paradigm

All right, which is one of the reasons that knowing the paradigms is so absolutely crucial to being able to decode these sentences.

Examples

  • Both service systems evidence different treatment paradigms that may impede collaboration (Slayter, 2007).

    Academic text (2010)

  • The recent Arab revolts, then, would seem to validate this part of the academic paradigm on regime stability.

    Academic text (2011)

  • And you know, that was inside of a sort of a particular paradigm of thinking.

  • And that is another statement of the paradigm being flexible in some ways.

  • There are two paradigms for work in this field.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • So right, the major labels have them convinced that we still live in a pre Internet paradigm where it's about hits.

  • Accordingly, I shall focus on five critical issues on which the paradigms disagree.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The distinction between these two modes of language is the very paradigm of his linguistic thinking and permeates every step of his discussion.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Given the survey data above, it would appear that the serious leisure and non-profit paradigms for volunteering are dominant within the UK.

    Academic text (2014)

  • In linguistics, a paradigm refers to a set of words that can replace each other in specific grammatical structures.

Synonyms

substitution class
vsparadigm
  • Specialized
9.4

A group of words that can replace each other in the same sentence position

is the alternative technical term for that identical concept

Surface Forms

paradigm singular
paradigms plural

Etymology

Paradigm comes from the Greek paradeigma, meaning 'example' or 'pattern'. That is why in language study a paradigm is the set of words you can swap into the same place in a sentence — it is the group of 'examples' that fit that slot.