Stories about sound. Style and rhetoric in the descriptions of audio equipment in the periodical “Hi-FI i Muzyka” Cover Image

Opowieści o brzmieniu – o stylu i retoryce w opisach sprzętu audio na łamach czasopisma „Hi-Fi i Muzyka”
Stories about sound. Style and rhetoric in the descriptions of audio equipment in the periodical “Hi-FI i Muzyka”

Author(s): Krzysztof Grzegorzewski
Subject(s): Media studies, Music, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Theory of Communication, Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: journalism; music; magazines; specialist press; hi-fi; audio; rhetoric; stylistics; persuasion;

Summary/Abstract: The paper is dedicated to Hi-Fi magazines. The author offers a stylistic analysis of selected texts taken from “Hi-FI i Muzyka” (magazines from the 2012-2014 period), focused on specific types of columns: tests of audio equipment (amplifiers, CD players, gramophones, loudspeakers, etc). The article contains a short description of the magazine and its content, then author has suggested stylistic tools for describing sound (ordered in categories) and offered an analysis with citations.

  • Issue Year: 32/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 119-130
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish