EDITORIAL REMARK  

編輯說明 METALINGUISTIC COMMENT: Metatextual remark explaining the composition of the text one is currently composing.

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.
Ubiquitous in Aristotle, and in many Graeco-Roman authors since. Common in Shiji. Their history in Chinese literature needs to be written up. Mozi does have early examples, but they need to be carefully analysed and do not necessarily fall into this group!

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