RECUSATIO 自謂不知
SPEECH ACT of declaring oneself unable or unwilling for the moment to discuss a question that arises.
Self-disqualification with regard to a certain question.
Hypernym
- 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.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
字謂不知 Self-disqualification with regard to a certain question.
"This is too large an issue for me to address..."
"This is too large an issue for me to address..."