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textemes

textemes is the plural of texteme.

Meaning of texteme

Noun

texteme (plural textemes)

  1. A unit of text, large enough to have intelligible meaning, that stands in relationship to other units of text.
    • In our exemplary case, that of the tension between textemes and repertoremes, this may imply the promotion of the "adequate" option which, even though often advocated by teachers and critics, proved to be marginal in actual practice, namely 'to replace SL-text textemes by ad hoc combinations of...1991, Kitty M. van Leuven-Zwart, Antonius Bernardus Maria Naaijkens, Translation Studies: The State of the Art, →ISBN

Questions about textemes

What is textemes the plural of?
Textemes is the plural of texteme.

Words near textemes in the dictionary

  1. textbooky
  2. textbox
  3. textboxes
  4. texted
  5. texteme
  6. textemes
  7. textemic
  8. texter
  9. texters
  10. textese
  11. textfile

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