LEXIS

LEXIS 

Lexis refers to individual words that have many different meaning in language according to how you use those words in context, situation or other factors.  Moreover, lexis no only focus on words, but only studies how they work together to produce phrases, sentences and texts.  

What kind of meaning you can words have? 

1. Denotative meaning

Denotative meaning is about the literacy of meaning of the words. It is something that is stated in books and dictionaries. 

Word: Blue

Sentence: My car is blue ( It refers to the color of the noun) 

2. Figurative meaning 

Figurative meaning is how people perceived the meaning of the words according to the situation or context in which the word is used and placed. 

Word: Blue 

Sentence: I feel blue because I could not go to the party. (It refers to the emotion that the person feels) 

References 

Investigating Lexis : Vocabulary Teaching, ESP, Lexicography and Lexical Innovation, edited by José Ramón Calvo-Ferrer, and Miguel Ángel Campos Pardillos, Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uta-ebooks/detail.action?docID=2076657.

Train Me To Teach. (2016, mayo 23). The Power of Lexis: Vocabulary Teaching Today [Archivo de vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K0qgnw4MPY&t=57s