Paralogy

Paralogy ( Greek  παρὰ parà , next to 'and Greek  λόγος lógos, word', 'sense', 'concept') means

• in genetics the relationship between duplicated genes, see homology (genetics)
• In linguistics, the use of words as a preliminary stage of a change in meaning, which deviates from the previously usual meaning
• in rhetoric and poetics the rhetorically or aesthetically motivated use of euphemisms and new creations .
• in psychology a disturbance of the grammatical structure of language caused by psychoses, see pseudology and confabulation .
• in postmodern philosophy discourses in which one cannot distinguish between actual and metaphorical meaning, see Jean-François Lyotard .

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