COMMUNICATIO  

QUESTION soliciting advice from one's audience.

請教法 Appeal to the audience with a question what they think.

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.
Closely connected with the DUBITATIO. (q.v.)

EX: Cicero: nunc ego, iudices, iam vos consulo, quid mihi faciendum putetis. [Note that Cicero asks about what HE should do, not generally what should or shall be done.]

Greek/Latin: Cicero, de oratore 3.53.204 communicatio quae est quasi cum iis ipsis, apud quos dicas, deliberatio.

Ancient Chinese: Absent as explicit appeal to readership. There is no such explicit or explicit appeal to the reader in ancient Chinese texts. The reader is construed as a passive recipient.

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