GALANTERIE
SPEECH ACT in which one playfully displays a playful erotic interest in a person of the opposite sex.
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.
One may or may not wish to distinguish flirtation as a separate rhetorical
device in which the subject need not be male and the purpose may be properly
erotic and need not be purely playful.
- Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik
(
UEDING
1992ff)
p.
3.507