AETIOLOGIA  說明根據法

後補自釋法 METALINGUISTIC COMMENT in the form of the giving of reasons for a sentence already uttered, usually involves the giving of reasons immediately after a statement.

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.
Miriam 178

REF: Lausberg 867f.

EX: Lanman: Hamlet on the players: : Let them be well us'd; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time (II, ii).

Greek/Latin: Rutilius 2.19. Quintilian 9.3.93 doubts that this should count as a figure of speech. Current.

Ancient Chinese: Currently introduced by 何以知其然 . Note, however, that "because"-clauses in classical Chinese precede main clauses, like all other subordinate clauses.

In LY the formula 何以知其然 is not attested.

Many clauses in X 也 "it is because of X" will have to be considered under this category. Note the current sentence final 故也 .

    Rhetorical device locations: 19