FAMILIARITAS-WITH-AUDIENCE  

對讀者狎稱法 Addressing the readership of a text in markedly familiar terms.

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.
Lanham

REF: Not in Lausberg or in Miriam.

Greek/Latin: Cicero, de or. 11.139. Quintilian.

Ancient Chinese: While there is address in terms of familiar pronouns, the sort of demonstrative familiarity that Cicero is thinking of is rare in pre-Buddhist literature.

Address to the readership ka4ngua1n 看官 arose in post-Buddhist times and needs to be traced in detail.

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