Editing Paradigmatic analysis (section)

{{short description|Linguistic analysis}}
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{{Semiotics}}
'''Paradigmatic analysis''' is the analysis of [[paradigm]]s embedded in the text rather than of the surface structure ([[syntax]]) of the text which is termed [[syntagmatic analysis]]. Paradigmatic analysis often uses [[Commutation test (semiotics)|commutation test]]s, i.e. analysis by substituting words of the same type or class to calibrate shifts in [[Connotation (semiotics)|connotation]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem05.html | title=Semiotics for Beginners: Paradigmatic Analysis | first=Daniel |last=Chandler | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000901084240/http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem05.html | archivedate=September 1, 2000}}</ref>