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binary opposition

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Contexto: "The repetition of elements is open only by virtue of the closure of a binary opposition between elements. When we analyse Marquez’s technique in One Hundred Years of Solitude, we can find both kinds of repetitions in the novel."
Fonte: Thakuria, T., & Das, P. (2025). Repetition as a narrative strategy in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 10(2).

Termo equivalente: oposição binária

Definição: "The binary opposition can be defined as a pair of ‘terms that although opposed to one another are necessarily bound together as each other’s condition of possibility’"
Fonte: Fatima, H., Gul, S., & Shehzad, W. (2019). Exploring the projection of the colonizer/colonized binary through the use of adjectives in selected short stories: A corpus-based study. Corporum: Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2(1), 67–78

Definição em português: "A oposição binária pode ser definida como um par de termos que, embora sejam opostos entre si, estão necessariamente ligados um ao outro, pois cada um constitui a condição de possibilidade do outro."