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- Title
SOPHISTIC ILLUSTRATED: TWO COUPLETS FOR THE YEAR OF THE SNAKE.
- Authors
ZHANG, PETER
- Abstract
The article explores a Chinese literati's challenge of composing a couplet for the Year of the Snake, noting the negative connotations associated with the maligned creature. It claims that the couplet writer faces a sophistic task of making the worse argument seem the better by invoking the ethos of a culture to rework that ethos in a specific situation. Chinese poets are said to write about a plant or an animal by turning it into a vehicle of their own aspirations, values or sentiments.
- Subjects
CONNOTATION (Linguistics); COUPLETS; ETHOS (The Greek word); CULTURE; CHINESE poets
- Publication
ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 2013, Vol 70, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
0014-164X
- Publication type
Article