treated as singularA mode of linguistic analysis based on identifying the function of each grammatical position in the sentence or phrase and the class of words by which it can be filled.
〔语言学〕法位学，序位学
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The most intriguing application of tagmemics to a composition course is the implementation of it as an entry point for understanding a text.
Tagmemics recognizes that two viewers will see a linguistic unit or a behavioral event differently, according to their individual backgrounds.
The different types of prewriting that we will explore here are freewriting, brainstorming, clustering, tagmemics, and journalistic technique.
In the view of tagmemics, any linguistic data can be viewed in one of three ways: statically, dynamically, or relationally (sometimes called after physics: particle, wave, or field).
A million (it seems!) years ago when I was teaching Freshman Comp, one of the ‘invention’ processes I taught my students was something that in those days was stuffily called tagmemics and now is much more accessibly referred to as particle-wave-field.
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tagmemic
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Linguistics
The triple perspective which tagmemic theory gives allows the modern interpreter to approach a text with more than one viewpoint.
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Pike's major theoretical contribution in linguistics was his development of tagmemics, an important theory in American linguistics until the paradigm shift toward Noam Chomsky's transformational grammar theory in the 1960s.
Tagmemic theory reflects the type of literary inquiry that composition teachers require of their students.
A teacher can introduce elements of tagmemic analysis as ways for a student to approach a work and try to understand something about it
He was criticized often enough in the academic world because of his tagmemic theory.