Figura umolchaniia (fwd)

[goscilo]

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Date: Saturday, September 10, 2005 6:40 PM -0400r
From: goscilo <goscilo at pitt.edu>r
To: ewb2 at cornell.edur
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Figura umolchaniiar

That's only so if one claims to pass over but does not, as in Mark Antony's
speech over Caesar's body in Shakespeare's play. Equally rhetorical but
genuinely "passing over" (omitting all commentary on an issue) is
occupatio/paralepsis/parasiopesis (the first, a Latin term; the last two,
obviously, Greek).  Only the context can tell which of these is pertinent.

Helena Goscilo

--On Saturday, September 10, 2005 6:33 PM -0400 E Wayles Browne
<ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU> wrote:r

> It's praeteritio. See e.g. the website
>  arts.uwaterloo.ca/CLASS/labyrinth/issue80/80faber.html
>
> "As last example of a device that functions in the manipulation of the
> speaker-audience relationship we offer praeteritio (a passing over).
> Claiming that he will not deal with a certain topic, the speaker mentions
> it anyway. Often rhetors will use praeteritio to make a point by innuendo
> rather than by evidence. Consider the example, “I shall not delve into the
> rumours that X was present when the horrible crime was committed.” In this
> sentence the speaker alerts the audience to certain rumours and suggests
> that X witnessed the crime; he has no hard evidence, but implies that
> there may be truth to the statement. "
> --
> Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics
> Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
> Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
>
> tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
> fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
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>
>> Could someone please give me the English or Latin equivalent of the term
>> in
>> rhetoric that corresponds to the Russian
>>
>> FIGURA UMOLCHANIIA
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Vladimir Padunov
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