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.
    • RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.

Hyponym

• ADULATIO+SELF-DEPRECATIONADULATIO with a strong element of self-deprecation. 典型諂媚﹣自謙法 Self-deprecatory flattery.
• CAPTATIO BENEVOLENTIAEADULATIO of a general audience in forensic context, designed to cause the audience to listen with good-will.Open attempt to gain the good-will of the audience by rhetorical means, typically in flattering opening remarks.
• ADULATIO-FLATTERING-ADDRESS典型諂媚稱謂法　ADULATIO in the form of a standardised or ritualised flattery through flattering terminology of adress.
• ADULATIO-FLATTERING-DESCRIPTION典型諂媚描寫法　ADULATIO in the form of standardised or ritualised flattery through flattering description.
• ADULATIO+SELF-DEPRECATION-MULITPLE重疊典型諂媚﹣自謙法 ADULATIO in the form of self-deprecatory flattery, multiple.