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prosiopesis Gram.|prɒsɪəʊˈpiːsɪs|
[f. Gr. προ- before + σιώπησις taciturnity, f. σιωπᾶν to be silent.]
Jespersen's term for ellipsis of the beginning of a grammatical structure in speech.
1924O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. x. 142 The subject must generally be expressed, and those few cases in which it is omitted, may be explained through prosiopesis, which sometimes becomes habitual in certain stock exclamations like Thank you. 1927― Mod. Eng. Gram. III. 226 It is occasionally left out through prosiopesis. 1935H. Straumann Newspaper Headlines 41 Whether such sentences should be considered as incomplete or elliptic or as aposiopesis and prosiopesis is a question of terminology. 1966G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising viii. 78 One marginally casual feature of advertising language is the occurrence of what..has been termed prosiopesis. |