DIAERESIS
=DIHAIRESIS. SPEECH ACT consisting in the logical division of a genus into its species, of a general category into its subcategories.
分類討論法 Logical division of a genus into its species, known to the rhetoricians as the figure daeresis, is closely related to definition.
Currently referred to also by its properly Greek spelling: dihairesis.
Hypernym
- 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.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
REF: Lausberg 139
Greek/Latin: Current.
Ancient Chinese: Marginal.