DEFINITIO  定義法

METALINGUISTIC REMARK explaining the meaning of an expression.

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.
Hyponym
  • DIFFERENTIADEFINITIO delimiting the nuances of an expression as compared to other expressions. 辨詞義法 The explicit focussing on differences in semantic nuances between semantically related words (sometimes called parasynonyms in the modern literature).
    • STIPULATIODEFINITIO which explains how a word is to be used in future towards a given intended audience and in a given context. A statement of definition which is declared to be true by virtue of being made. This is a kind of DEFINITIO.
      REF: Lausberg 782 and 104ff

      Greek/Latin: The issue was central at least since Socrates, taken to excess in Sextus Empiricus.

      Ancient Chinese: Common rhetorical form in ancient China. Cultivated systematically in MOJING and JIA YI, Daoshu.

      See 訓詁匯纂 , which is a comprehensive collection of glosses, but also of many definitions from ancient times. See also C. Harbsmeier 1998 on Definition.

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