ACCUSATIO  當面指責法

ADDRESS designed to declare one's addressee guilty of a crime.

Accusation to the face, typically specifying illegal or immoral acts that are claimed to have been committed by the accused.

Greek: kateegoria.

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.
Hyponym
  • ACCUSATIO MUTUA互相指責法 Mutual ACCUSATIO; later: mutual insult. Also known as ACCUSATIO CONCERTATIVA.Greek: antikateegoria.
    REF: Lanham. In Lausberg 146 the term is purely legal.

    Greek/Latin: The phenomenon is common, but the term is not common in classical times, occurring occasionally, however, in Cicero. Examples all over the place in the literature, expecially in speeches and in drama.

    Ancient Chinese: Accusations to the face should be collected, and lists of accusations are common particularly in predictable situations from ZUO onwards.

    In LY no face to face accusations are traded: there is only one clear case of the closely related ABOMINATIO which is face to face insult.

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