QUOTATION-PROVERB-UNMARKED  

隱諺語法 Quotation of a proverb without any explicit characterisation of what is quoted as a proverb.

Hypernym
  • QUOTATIONIntertextual METALINGUISTIC COMMENT introducing direct discourse.
    • METALINGUISTIC COMMENTRHETORICAL TROPE which consists in remarks not mainly concerned with the world but about language itself or about one's present or forthcoming message and its place in the world.
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
  • PROVERBIUMGNOME that is commonly accepted as a conventional truth.
    • 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.
Common in pre-Buddhist Chinese, but not easy to investigate because one often cannot tell when what became proverbial first became proverbial.

    Rhetorical device locations: 1
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