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skaz - What does it mean?

Definition of 'skaz'

English

Noun

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  • A literary technique wherein characters are mainly identified by the linguistic specificities of their speech.
  • * 1993 , Monika Fludernik, The fictions of language and the languages of fiction
  • ...however, Banfield goes on to posit that first person narrative comes in two shapes, one of which is speakerless while the other corresponds with skaz ...
  • * 2000 , Jeremy Hicks, Mikhail Zoshchenko and the poetics of skaz
  • She argues that the chief means of indicating the distance between the two levels in grotesque-ironic skaz is 'linguistic discrediting'...

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