Özet:

Rhetoric is based on the principle of the pertinent and accurate expression of words according to certain rules and is among the oldest rule-making disciplines associated with word usage. This discipline ensures elegance of expression by means of associated branches and sub-branches. Branched into meânî [meaning], beyan [statement], and bedii [aesthetic], rhetoric appears as a body of rules that aim to embellish speech and show the ways of proper and timely expression by further sub-branching these three branches. Rather than the full extent of rhetoric, this article instead discusses the particular elements that are categorized as words under the term of word and attempts to treat the terms relating to belaboring, which is considered a flaw or deficiency of rhetoric. In this respect, this study dwells on the terms kelam [remark], kelime [word], and lafız [wording], as well as ıtnab [belabor] and haşiv [pleonasm], both of which are considered linguistic flaws, and briefly evaluates their usage in rhetoric. With regard to the derivations and uses of the Turkish equivalents of such terms, the study also compares the terms suggested by resources and their lexical equivalents in English. The study finishes by evaluating the original terms in Arabic against their respective Turkish and English terms according to the quality of their equivalence.

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