• Aureation ("to make golden", from Latin: aureus) is a device in arts of rhetoric that involves the "gilding" (or supposed heightening) of diction in one...
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    an increasing incorporation of Latinate terms into Scots prosody, or aureation, heightening the creative tensions between the ornate and the natural...
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  • brain damage resulting from a stroke or head injury. Linguistics portal Aureation Backslang Blend word Calque Language planning Mondegreen Morphology (linguistics)...
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  • the Middle Ages. At this time and into the Renaissance, the practice of aureation (the introduction of terms from classical languages, often through poetry)...
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  • Resources in your library Resources in other libraries Ancient language Aureation, an aspect of the influence of a classical language on a later language...
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  • parataxis, sprezzatura and elliptic style. It contrasts with periphrasis, aureation and pleonasm. Blacketer (2006). The School of God: Pedagogy and Rhetoric...
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  • to Widdowson, is the point of poetry (Widdowson. 1992, 76). Acrolect Aureation Basilect Classical language Code-switching Gender role in language Gianfranco...
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    English Language Look up inkhorn term in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Aureation Calque Classical compound Franglais Plain language Prestige (sociolinguistics)...
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  • Readability Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers Succinctness Aureation Corporate jargon Gobbledygook Legalese Psychobabble Technobabble Verbosity...
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    is at the very center of the intersections of composing and rhetoric. Aureation – the use of Latinate and polysyllabic terms to "heighten" diction. Auxesis...
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