skaz

See also: skaź and skaż

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' […]

Anagrams

• zaks

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skas/

Etymology

From Russian сказ (skaz, “tale”).

Noun

skaz m inan

1. skaz (Russian narrative form)

Declension

Declension of skaz

	singular	plural
nominative	skaz	skazy
genitive	skazu	skazów
dative	skazowi	skazom
accusative	skaz	skazy
instrumental	skazem	skazami
locative	skazie	skazach
vocative	skazie	skazy

Noun

skaz f

1. genitive plural of skaza

Further reading

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