English

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' […]