Smith is both stylish and inventive with his lexical choices – "goldfishing" a smoke-ring is one I particularly liked.
Additionally, grammatical and lexical choices are available to the writer, as reading the examples above will show, and everyone knows the special artistry and techniques involved in composing written memorandums or letters if they are to achieve precisely the purpose for which they are intended.
The veneer of impartiality involves the selection of dominant - the most probable - lexical choices.
Such expressions, which are found in signature blocks, as well as in other conventionalized communications like greetings and insults, often have quite idiosyncratic lexical choices.
This speaks against the possibility that the topic dictates the vocabulary, and equally against the possibility that mutual imitation causes strong convergence in lexical choices as people interact in the discussion.
The aphasic data showed an influence on gesture from lexical choices but no corresponding clausal influence.
First, there should be different expectations from speech and gesture, depending on genre, due to differences in lexical choices and semantics.
These findings are likely to be due to speakers' lexical choices and the spatial nature of the discourse and are informative for clinical practice.
