Syntagmatics and paradigmatics

The distinction between the syntagmatic and the paradigmatic has a very strong theoretical history in literature, where the syntagmatic is identified with 'realist' literature and the paradigmatic with, at an extreme, poetry. Regardless of the significance of such theory for hypertext, particularly in terms of ideological analysis, such terms provide a methodology for recognising the continuity between various hypertexts, possible, imagined, and realised. Indeed, just as Jakobson identified in regards to literature, it is clear that literary hypertexts tend to emphasise the paradigmatic, while instrumental hypertexts emphasise the syntagmatic, and that these axes are defined by the syntagmatic sequences provided and formed.

Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links A performative hypertext


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