INSINUATIO  

METALINGUISTIC COMMENT in the form of a in introduction to one's theme which takes as a point of departure what the speaker presumes preoccupies his intended audience.

順耳間接介紹法 Subtle approach to the opening of a speech which only indirectly leads to the subject.

Hypernym
  • 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.
REF: Lausberg 280.

Greek/Latin: Extremely common in rhetorical practice, and currently discussed among theoretitians.

Ancient Chinese: Fine examples in Zha4nguo2ce4.

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