skaz

English

Etymology

From Russian сказ (skaz, “tale”).

Noun

skaz (uncountable)

  1. 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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