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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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Chapter 4, together with Chapter 5, focuses on the third level of lexis and the ἀρετὴ τῆς λέξεως (the excellence of lexis). Since Aristotle devotes much attention to this characteristic of lexis, the discussion of this third level of lexis has been divided into two chapters: Chapter 4 deals with the intra-textual aspect of Aristotle’s remarks on lexis as a means for the creation of different kinds of poetry and rhetoric, i.e. lexis as technē; in Chapter 5 extra-textual factors are considered and are followed by a discussion of the purpose and function of lexis on its third level.

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

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

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