VOCATIVUS-PREPOSED  先呼叫法

Address by name of a person in the vocative mode, typically followed by the use of the second person pronoun.

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.

The question is what parts of oral practice is carried over into writing.

From Song times onwards we have things like 辛棄疾:杯,汝前來

Rhetorical device locations: 10