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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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