QUOTATION-WITHIN-QUOTATION  

引用語中引用語 Within direct speech, the quotation of direct speech.

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.
Common in Buddhist texts, where even multiple embedding of direct speech is current (as it is indeed in Latin and Greek).

    Rhetorical device locations: 1
    • 論語 無違。」 樊遲曰