diction
The diction (from Latin dictio "conversation, conversation, lecture, speech") is the oral or written expression of a person or a text.
The term is often used synonymously with style . As a style but an entire literary genre (letter style, epic style, newspaper style, etc.) or style level is correct, the individual character (simple, superior, mixed), while one of the personal style of an author as its style and the concrete language of expression is one of him written text can be described as its diction . However, this distinction has been blurred by the fact that the term manner is now widely regarded as outdated and its meaning is therefore taken over from the term style .
The term diction is mostly related to the basic properties of a text such as choice of words, sentence structure, linkage and rhythm , while style (and manner ) particularly refers to the sophisticated stylistic devices, such as rhetorical figures , as well as personal idiosyncrasies and inventions of the author.
See also
literature
- Gérard Genette : Fiction and Diction. Translated by Heinz Jatho. Fink, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7705-2771-2 .
