DIMINUTIO-WORD
DIMINUTIO that is marked morphologically.
指小法 Use of a diminutive/devaluing form of a noun.
Hypernym
- DIMINUTIOSPEECH ACT of downgrading, minimalising the importance of, or downvaluing something by the way one refers to it. 貶法 Abasement, diminution of something by means of degrading terms, calling someone bad names.
- 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.
- RHETORICAL
TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of
expressions.
Cf. Cicero: conclusiunculae
Exceedingly common in Russian, and as in Cicero's notorious innovation DISTINCTIUNCULA "petty distinction".and CONCLUSIUNCULAE.
Exceedingly common in Russian, and as in Cicero's notorious innovation DISTINCTIUNCULA "petty distinction".and CONCLUSIUNCULAE.
- Lateinische Syntax und Stilistik
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HOFMANN-SZANTYR
1965)
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