STIPULATIO  規定法

DEFINITIO which explains how a word is to be used in future towards a given intended audience and in a given context.

A statement of definition which is declared to be true by virtue of being made. This is a kind of DEFINITIO.

Hypernym
  • DEFINITIOMETALINGUISTIC REMARK explaining the meaning of an expression.
    • 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.
E.g. "Children, in the sense of this law, include senile adults".

STIPULATIO should be easy to find in administrative legal texts.

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