lexis
See also: Lexis
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “diction”, “word”), from λεγ- (leg-, “to speak”).[1]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛksəs
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lĕkʹsĭs, IPA(key): /ˈlɛksɪs/,[1]
Noun
lexis (countable and uncountable, plural lexises or lexes or lexeis)
- (linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language.
- (pedagogy, TEFL) Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.
- 2014, Paul Lindsay, Teaching English Worldwide, page 346:
- By the 1980s, English language teachers generally had begun to realize that there had been a neglect of lexis in teaching methods and coursebooks. […] The basic truth that without vocabulary or lexis we can't express anything had to be restated and a new approach to teaching lexis was needed.
- 2014, Paul Lindsay, Teaching English Worldwide, page 346:
- The vocabulary used by a writer
- In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand.
Derived terms
- lexiplacy, lexoplacy (word-coining, word-creation)
References
- “lexis” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlek.sis/, [ˈɫɛk.sɪs]
Declension
Irregular. Accusative plural lexeis.
References
- lexis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lexis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lexis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lexis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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