How Stereotypes are Formed: The Discontents of Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relations in Cultural Models
Keywords:
Cultural Models, Paradigmatic Relation, Stereotype, Syntagmatic RelationAbstract
This paper investigates the intertwinements between stereotypes alongside syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations in the sense of cultural models. Stereotypes have long been known as labels that unilaterally applied towards people including minorities. However, the stereotypes are not ex nihilo, but rational since those involve linguistic ideas between syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations. Through qualitative method and explorative approach, analysis of this paper includes how both syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations by Ferdinand de Saussure work altogether with cultural models by James Paul Gee in shaping stereotypes. Linguistic meanings play more into matter of shifting paradigm that correlates with ideas of cultural thoughts. It is the shifting paradigm of identities that moves the unique label into such stereotypes; bringing havoc to those who are labelled inside. In conclusion, cultural models work through linguistic matters in the senses of syntagmatic and paradigmatic meanings in the sense of identities that may worsen the contexts of stereotypes beyond their literal conceptions.
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