EPEXEGESIS 後加解釋法
METALINGUISTIC REMARK in the form of a modifying expression which is intended to explicitly explain the content or meaning of the term modified.
Juxtaposition of two coordinate nouns, the second further explaining the first.
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.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
Miriam 57 "Similar to parenthesis in interposing explanatory matter is
epergesis, or apposition."
REF: Lausberg 676
EX: the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ pipe. Tempest 3.3.97
Ancient Chinese: well worth investigating as a form. Surely the form is relatively rare, unless one considers certain current binomes as cases of idiomatic epexegesis. The conditions when this is used in Chinese need investigation. I have not done this work.
REF: Lausberg 676
EX: the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ pipe. Tempest 3.3.97
Ancient Chinese: well worth investigating as a form. Surely the form is relatively rare, unless one considers certain current binomes as cases of idiomatic epexegesis. The conditions when this is used in Chinese need investigation. I have not done this work.
- Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik
(
UEDING
1992ff)
p.
2.1246