QUAESTIO-LECTORI-CONSULTATIVA  

請教讀者法 By the figure QUAESTIO-LECTORI-CONSULTATIVA (traditionally: ANACOENOSIS) the speaker asks counsel of his hearers.

Greek: anakoinoosis.

Hypernym
  • QUAESTIO-LECTORI問看官法 A question which the reader is asked to answer for himself.Compare the QUASTIO-LECTORI-CONSULTATIVA by which the author asks a communicative question of advice to the reader.
    • QUAESTIOADDRESS in the form of an open question.The posing of open questions without providing or expecting an answer. Compare APORIA, DUBITATIO, HAESITATIO.
      • 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.
Miriam 215

EX: "How would you put this?"

REF: Lausberg 779

Ancient Chinese: common are forms 何以知之 "how do we know?", but these never seem to involve an appeal to the reader. We need to inquire exactly when the common custom of asking the advice of the reader in later literature arose.

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