Texteme

Quick meaning: Texteme is a noun meaning (linguistics) A unit of text, large enough to have intelligible meaning, that stands in relationship to other units of text.

Meaning

(linguistics) A unit of text, large enough to have intelligible meaning, that stands in relationship to other units of text.

Example Sentences

It is unknown, how much of the texteme was changed in the meantime during the processes of converting the texteme into a text into a texteme into a text .... whilst copying it.

However, stating the fundamentally unanalyzable nature of the textemes would represent a brutal deformation of Coşeriu's approach, since, in fact, the founder of Integralism does not assert it.

The unit of comparison within this procedure is the texteme, which is defined as a linguistic unit of any type and level, participating in textual relationships and, as a result, carrying textual functions (Toury 1980: 108). The texteme, then, pertains to the level of the text function, it is a concept that directly mediates between the macrostructure and the microstructure. Any texteme can be broken down into elements belonging to a lower order.

Word Forms

• textemes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include semanteme, textlet, lingueme, textese, lexeme, syntagma.

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