ARCHAISMUS  擬古法

HISTRIONIC rhetorical device in which the speaker artificially uses obsolete language.

Archaism, deliberate us of out-dated linguistic forms.

Hypernym
  • HISTRIONICSRHETORICAL TROPE which crucially involves playful dissimulation of one's real meaning.
    • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
REF: Lanham. No Lausberg. The term is probably a renaissance innovation. ERNESTI has archaiologein.

Greek/Latin: Common phenomenon.

Ancient Chinese: Comparatively rare before Han times, but not unheard of. It will be very important to collect distinct and clear cases of archaisms in pre-Han literature. Tao Yuanming is notoriously fond of poetic archaisms.

NB: Quotation from old texts must be carefully distinguished from this kind of vetustas which is conceived as a rhetorical device.

REF: Lanham. No Lausberg. The term is probably a renaissance innovation. Ernesti has archaiologein.

Greek/Latin: Common phenomenon.

Ancient Chinese: Comparatively rare before Han times, but not unheard of. It will be very important to collect distinct and clear cases of archaisms in pre-Han literature.

NB: Quotation from old texts must be carefully distinguished from this kind of vetustas which is conceived as a rhetorical device.

Rhetorical device locations: 9
  • 百喻經 此亦復爾。

    爾

  • 百喻經 爾乃設會，

    爾乃

  • 百喻經 愚人亦爾。

    爾

  • 百喻經 咸作此言：

    咸

  • 論語 「君子哉若人！

    若

  • 論語 怨是用希。」

    用

  • 賢愚經 淨飯王子　厥名悉達。
  • 賢愚經 應王金輪　典四天下。
  • 左傳 莫余敢止。」

    ??This quotation seems to show a sense for archaic style, but of course this is hard to prove.