Hypernym

• RATIOCINATIOSPEECH ACT of developing one's points of view through rational reflection and reasoned argument.
• SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
  • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
    • RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.

• Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik ( UEDING 1992ff) p. 2.1134