DIGRESSIO
SPEECH ACT of digressing from one's main topic or narrative line of discourse.
節外生枝法 Explicit or implicit digression.
Hypernym
- 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.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
Hyponym
- EKPHRASISDIGRESSIO in which one enters into a disproportionately detailed description
of a subject matter. 詳細描寫法 Elaborate digressive description inserted into a passage.
- CHARACTERISMUS EKPHRASIS in the form of a detailed description and characterisation of a
person.
- DIASYRMOS CHARACTERISMUS consisting in the detailed denigration of someone's character as despicable and laughable.
- CONFESSIO EKPHRASIS which consists in the detailed description of one's past and
present faults.
- EKPHRASIS-CHOROGRAPHIA 詳寫風景人世法 Detailed (ekphrastic!) description of a place and its
inhabitants.
- EKPHRASIS-CHRONOGRAPHIA 詳寫時期法 Detailed (ekphrastic!) description of a time of day, or a time of the
year.
- EKPHRASIS-EFFICTIO 專門仔細寫人物法 'Complete' personal description of the appearance of a person, top
to toe. A kind of DESCRIPTIO. See CHARACTERISMUS.
- EKPHRASIS-PERSON 詳寫身性法 The detailed and elaborated description of a person. Traditionally known as CHARACTERISMUS.
- HYPOTYPOSIS EKPHRASIS of a deliberately ove-lively, vivid and emblematic kind.
- CHARACTERISATION EKPHRASIS presenting in some detail the characteristic features of a
personality including hi physical appearance, biography, and personality
traits.
- CHARACTERISMUS EKPHRASIS in the form of a detailed description and characterisation of a
person.
REF: Lausberg 340ff
Greek/Latin: Ubiquitous since Homer, often explicit. Frequently discussed under differing names in the literature. Quint. 4.3.14 parekbasis est, ut mea quidem fert opinio, alicuius rei, sed ad utilitatem causae pertinentis extra ordinem excurrens tractatio.
Ancient Chinese: Extremely rare in its explicit form which involves a metalinguistic statement about itself.
Greek/Latin: Ubiquitous since Homer, often explicit. Frequently discussed under differing names in the literature. Quint. 4.3.14 parekbasis est, ut mea quidem fert opinio, alicuius rei, sed ad utilitatem causae pertinentis extra ordinem excurrens tractatio.
Ancient Chinese: Extremely rare in its explicit form which involves a metalinguistic statement about itself.
- But I Digress ( LENNARD 1991) p.
- Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik
(
UEDING
1992ff)
p.
3.126