Book contents
- Aristotle on Language and Style
- Aristotle on Language and Style
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 On the Way to Aristotle’s Concept of Lexis
- Chapter 2 The First Level of Lexis
- Chapter 3 The Second Level of Lexis
- Chapter 4 The Third Level of Lexis
- Chapter 5 The Third Level of Lexis
- Chapter 6 Metaphor Revisited
- Appendix Lexis in Plato’s Republic 3.392c7–398b8
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Verborum Graecorum
- Index Generalis
Chapter 4 - The Third Level of Lexis
Its Intra-textual Aspect
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2020
Book contents
- Aristotle on Language and Style
- Aristotle on Language and Style
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 On the Way to Aristotle’s Concept of Lexis
- Chapter 2 The First Level of Lexis
- Chapter 3 The Second Level of Lexis
- Chapter 4 The Third Level of Lexis
- Chapter 5 The Third Level of Lexis
- Chapter 6 Metaphor Revisited
- Appendix Lexis in Plato’s Republic 3.392c7–398b8
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Verborum Graecorum
- Index Generalis
Summary
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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- Aristotle on Language and StyleThe Concept of <I>Lexis</I>, pp. 99 - 133Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020