Asianism
English
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editNoun
editAsianism (countable and uncountable, plural Asianisms)
- (historical, uncountable) An Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency that arose in the third century BC, favouring emotion, bombast and wordplay over austere formality, and distinguished by the use of a prose rhythm.
- Antonym: Atticism
- A behaviour or utterance that is characteristic of Asian people.
- 2002, Rebecca E. Karl, Staging the World, page 158:
- […] this historicization that allowed and even forced Chinese intellectuals to develop conceptual linkages to neighboring peoples and that permitted the production of new types of globalisms, Asianisms, and nationalisms.
- 2009, Andreas Sedlatschek, Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change, page 86:
- On that basis, upgradation and delink qualify as quantitative lexical South Asianisms.
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editGreek rhetorical tendency
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