Polish classification of the varieties and types of speech stylization as a tool for addressing selected areas of Japanese stylistics Cover Image

Polska klasyfikacja rodzajów i typów stylizacji językowej jako narzędzie opisu wybranych zagadnień stylistyki japońskiej
Polish classification of the varieties and types of speech stylization as a tool for addressing selected areas of Japanese stylistics

Author(s): WOJCIECH GĘSZCZAK
Subject(s): Sociolinguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Rhetoric, Stylistics
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawcze
Keywords: speech stylization; stylistics; sociolinguistics; multimodality; Japanese linguistics; language in comic book; language in popular culture;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to apply the classification of speech stylization proposed by Dubisz (1996: 17-20) to some findings reported on in studies on Japanese stylistics. The classification was utilized to describe the stylistics of spoken language, transcribed into text as a record of the utterances of fictional characters in Japanese literature and comic books. Two out of five classes of stylizations defined by Dubisz were used as reference points for reviewing the results of studies on the stylistics of Japanese multimodal genres (Kinsui, Yamakido 2015). Japanese speech stylizations were evaluated with regard to the impact of individual traits of characters on their speech styles and to the multimodal nature of genres such as comic book and illustrated book. This attempt has led to the proposal of some innovations in the Polish classification of speech stylizations.

  • Issue Year: LXXVII/2021
  • Issue No: 77
  • Page Range: 267-278
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish