Ana Kotarcic

Aristotle on Language and Style

The Concept of Lexis

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Produktbeschreibung

The first systematic analysis of Aristotle's concept of lexis, which is approached on three interconnected levels: the first dealing with language as a system, the second with actual language usage, and the third with prescriptions for the kind of language to be used in poetic and rhetorical compositions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781108499521
• ISBN-10: 110849952X
• Artikelnr.: 60003973

Autorenporträt

ANA KOTARCIC is an FWO [Pegasus]2 Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, working on Aristotle's thoughts on language as a dynamic system. Her research focuses on the workings of natural language and includes theoretical, cognitive and computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax and semantics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. On the way to Aristotle's concept of lexis
2. The first level of lexis: Aristotle's fundamentals of language
3. The second level of lexis: language in use
4. The third level of lexis: its intra-textual aspect
5. The third level of lexis: its extra-textual aspect
6. Metaphor revisited.