CAPTATIO BENEVOLENTIAE  求同情法

ADULATIO of a general audience in forensic context, designed to cause the audience to listen with good-will.

Open attempt to gain the good-will of the audience by rhetorical means, typically in flattering opening remarks.

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  • ADULATIO諂媚對話法 ADDRESS designed to function as flattery.
    • 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.
求同情法 Open attempt to gain the good-will of the audience by rhetorical means, typically in flattering opening remarks.

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