ORATIO OBLIQUA  間接引用法

METALINGUISTIC REMARK in the form of reporting the content of speech (rather than quoting it directly).

Indirect speech.

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.
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Rhetorical device locations: 6
  • 百喻經 語我夫言 既有信心
  • 百喻經 問其奴言： 財寶所在

    Strange hybrid construction.???

  • 韓非子 而恐天下言己為貪也，

    言己為貪也

  • 論語 子言衛靈公之無道也，

    Note that Confucius does not presuppose, but asserts the "waylessless" of the ruler of We4y.

  • 論語 「不曰： 如之何 如之何者

    This is not, technically, indirect speech. But it will be interesting to keep it in mind as one discusses the evolution of the form.

  • 史記 人皆言楚之善變也，

    言楚之善變也 . Not an indisputable case, but a fine example of periphrasic means of representing essentially indirect speech.