RESTRICTIO  提出例外法

METALINGUISTIC COMMENT limiting the applicability of a general statement one has just made.

Restriction, a figure whereby after making a gerneral statement one excepts a part or delimits a generalisation.

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.
Miriam 115

EX: "He is the finest Greek poet, Homer, of course, excepted." Absent, because it is a metalinguistic form.

REF: Not in Ernesti or Lausberg. Renaissance technical term.

Greek/Latin: Current.

Ancient Chinese: I cannot think of a word for "except" in classical Chinese, off-hand.

    Rhetorical device locations: 1
    • 論語 知和而和, 不以禮節之 亦不可行也

      One should consider whether this is not just an afterthought, but perhaps a delimitation of what was generalised about above.