Sunday, February 28, 2010

Starring the Text (4)

"The tutor signifier will be cut up into a series of brief contiguous fragments, which we shall call lexias, since they are units of reading."

*ACT. "cut up": Action involving cutting up original text. What is going to happen with cut up text? **HER. "lexias": What are lexias? Why give these units of reading a separate collective name? ***REF. "lexias": Origin is derived from the Greek term for 'word', lexis. Lexis refers to the lexicon that has lexical, instead of grammatical, meaning.

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