PROVERBIUM  

GNOME that is commonly accepted as a conventional truth.

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  • GNOMESPEECH ACT making a decontextualised general statement that purports to remain true beyond the context in which it is uttered. 抽象命題法 The decontextualisation of discourse so as to create generalising gnomic abstract propositions or maxims, typically in narrative contexts, but also in isolated enunciations. The relation between GENERALISATION and PROVERB is by no means always clear.
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
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