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Chapter 1 - On the Way to Aristotle’s Concept of Lexis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2020

Ana Kotarcic
Ana Kotarcic
Affiliation:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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The first chapter of this book delineates the intellectual context in which Aristotle’s ideas on the concept of lexis developed, before focusing on his own definitions of the concept. The chapter is divided into four sections. The first threedeal with lexis in the works first of Plato,Isocrates and Aristotle respectively. The final section introduces the three levels into which lexis has been divided in this book.

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diēgēsisēthosIsocrateslanguagePlatostyle
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Aristotle on Language and Style
The Concept of <I>Lexis</I>
 , pp. 14 - 38
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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