VOCATIVUS-APOSTROPHE  不當面呼叫法

 The addressing an absent person.

Hypernym
  • VOCATIVUSADDRESS by name to an addressee.
    • 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.
NB: Vocatives in classical Chinese seem always to involve informal names, i.e. You 由 and not Zilu 子路 for the disciple of Confucius.

Rhetorical device locations: 2