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Examples of lexis
lexis
Just think the lexis is better this way rather than sounding like John Madden.
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What the difference between a lexis and a word, a lexical unit, a vocable, a seme ?
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Lexis Roberts'remains were found in east-central Louisiana in early October.
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Keller relied on a lexis that is less common when compared to Canby's.
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Usually, this represents a mere fraction of the lexis of that language.
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However, lexis is still closely looked at and broken down into two forms.
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Lexis graphike is the most precise style of rhetoric and strongly appeals to intelligence.
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Mr. Rabiej writes bi-monthly expert commentaries for LEXIS-NEXIS on electronic discovery issues.
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The origin of Russian lexis is more than 60 per cent non-Slavic.
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- All of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function
- In linguistics, a lexis (from the Greek: u03BBu03ADu03BEu03B9u03C2 "word") is the total word-stock or lexicon having items of lexical, rather than grammatical, meaning.
- Lexis is a genus of moth in the family Arctiidae.
- The set of all words and phrases in a language; The vocabulary used by a writer
- The verbal "texture" or rhetorical aspect of a work of literature, including the usual meanings of the terms "diction" and "imagery."
- Not to be confused with the popular car, a lexis is the complete stock of morphemes, idioms, and words possessed by a language---i.e., all the units of potential meaning. See lexicon.
- Means the vocabulary of a language as opposed to other aspects such as the grammar of the text. Lexis is clearly an important aspect of creating a suitable style or register (i.e. when choosing language and language features to suit a particular genre, context, audience and purpose).
- A legal information service, a pioneer of full-text information online.
- A computerized full-text legal data base.
