AVERSIO  被呼稱的人不在法

ADDRESS turning towards a person not present or dead.

Turning towards a person not present, addressing that person, the address sometimes being even to a dead person or personified things.

This is a subcategory of PERSONIFICATIO and VOCATIVUS.

Hypernym
  • ADDRESSSPEECH ACT of explicitly addressing an audience.
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Lausberg 762-765

EX: "Frailty, thy name is woman".

Greek/Latin: Quint. 4.1.69. Striking Latin traditional examples: Cic. pro Mil. 31.85: vos enim iam ego, Albani tumuli atque luci!... Cic. Verr. 5.63.163: o leges Porciae legesque Semproniae!...

EX: Cicero, ad Catilinam, beginning: quo usque tandem abutere...

Aristophanes, Clouds 5:

EX: Mark Antony turns aside from his talk to the assassins and speaks to Caesar's corpse.

That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true!

If then thy spirit look upon us now,

Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death

To see the Antony making his peace,

Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,

Most noble! in the presence of thy corse? Shak. J. Caesar, 3.1.194

Ancient Chinese: I cannot think of any such expanded use of the second person pronoun to refer to persons who are not present and not really addressed.

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