REMINISCENTIA  追憶法

AUTOBIOGRAPHIA which consists of the reporting of memories that are emotionally important to the author.

Recital of personal reminiscences, most often of woes or injuries.

Hypernym
  • AUTOBIOGRAPHIANARRATIO of the speaker commenting on his own life. The autobiographic mode, diachronic or untensed, as the case may be.
    • NARRATIOSPEECH ACT which consists in the reporting of events.
      • 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.
Miriam 247

REF: Ernesti 20 enumeratio rerum in antecedentibus tractatarum, vulgo recapitulatio. Lausberg 434 also takes the term to refer to the review of one's message at the end of a speech, for which see RECAPITULATIO

Greek/Latin: Reminiscing is current.

Ancient Chinese: Reminiscing is exceedingly rare in pre-Han literature, as far as I remember. This may be because it belongs to a highly informal kind of discourse. The phenomenon is found in Shi3ji4, if I remember correctly.

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