skaz
English
Noun
skaz (uncountable)
- 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' […]
Anagrams
Old High German
Alternative forms
- scaz
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *skatt.
Declension
Descendants
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skas/
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: skaz
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
- skaz in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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