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.

Hypernym
  • 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.
Hyponym
  • 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.
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