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fandomsecrets2008-04-13 05:49 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2008-04-13 05:49 pm
[ SECRET POST #464 ]
⌈ Secret Post #464 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 16 pages, 379 secrets from Secret Submission Post #067.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 4 (twice) 5 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: 16
I looked up tropes in the OED, and the definition of it as a reoccurring pattern within literature or other media does not appear until June, 2007, and even then it is labeled as a Draft Addition. This is a far cry from the word's first appearance in 1533, where is was defined as "A figure of speech which consists in the use of a word or phrase in a sense other than that which is proper to it; also, in casual use, a figure of speech; figurative language".
However, its additional definition, the one TV Tropes relies on, is still there. There earliest example of trope as motif was used in 1975 by the Chicago Tribune, so we cannot blame TV Tropes for appropriating this term and lying to the gullible. Though I may be gullible. How would I know? But the first encounter I had with this term was when the head of my English Honours department used it when discussing tropes in literature, so the new, additional definition of trope is well proliferated by now.
Your definition of 'trope' as a linguistic term is correct; however, it has expanded since then, and it is now acceptable to use that term as a synonym of 'motif'. And I think the motivation of TV Tropes to use that term instead of cliché or motif is probably due to the effectiveness of alliteration, and not due to a demonic glee in subverting the English language.
That's fan fiction's job.
Re: 16
(Anonymous) 2008-04-14 05:15 am (UTC)(link)Re: 16