Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chronotope

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: chrono-tope
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The representation, in language, of a particular time and space.

Example Sentences

"[…] but the methodology also requires that postmodern literary chronotopes are related to a historical development of the novel (itself a kind of chronotope), to representational chronotopes in other art forms, and to the practical chronotopes that […]"
"Carver's work, considered as a totality, constitutes what Bakhtin calls a chronotope, “a formally constitutive category of literature...[within which] spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought—out, concrete whole."

Etymology

From chrono- (“time”) + -tope (“space”), from Russian хронотоп (xronotop) as used by Mikhail Bakhtin.

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: хронотоп

Inflected Forms

chronotopes (plural)

Derived Forms

chronotopic

Questions

What does chronotope mean?: The representation, in language, of a particular time and space.
Where does chronotope come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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