Lexis vs Lexicography - What's the difference?
lexis | lexicography |
(linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language.
The vocabulary used by a writer
The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
(linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
In linguistics terms the difference between lexis and lexicography
is that lexis is the set of all words and phrases in a language while lexicography is the scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.lexis
English
(wikipedia lexis)Noun
(en-noun)- In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand sometimes.