lexie

See also: Lexie

English

Alternative forms

• lexia

Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French lexie, originating in the writings of Roland Barthes.

Noun

lexie (plural lexies)

1. (literary theory) A minimal unit of reading, such as a sentence or sentence fragment
   • 1976, Jean Calloud, Structural Analysis of Narrative‎^[1], page 15:

     It is essential for the analyst to be able to construct these canonic statements out of the linguistic statements given in the lexies.

Anagrams

• exile