TLS - RHET-DEV

PRAYER

Formal ritual ADDRESS to divinities.

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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.

Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik ( UEDING 1992ff) p. 3.580

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