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文体
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What it means
文体 refers to the distinctive manner of writing found in a text, encompassing word choice, sentence rhythm, and tonal quality. It signals formality, genre, and authorial voice, shaping how ideas are presented and perceived.
Main meanings
- The overall style of written language in a text, including diction and sentence structure.
- The stylistic manner of a particular author or work, signaling voice and register.
- A field of linguistic study that analyzes how form and tone convey meaning in writing.
How to use it
Used in literary analysis, linguistic study, education, and journalism to discuss how a text sounds across genres and registers; it helps describe narration, dialogue, and prose style, and can indicate formality, audience, and rhetorical strategy.
Variants and close terms
- 作風 (さくふう, sakufū) style of a writer or work
- 文調 (ぶんちょう, buntchō) tone or phrasing typical of a given register
- 語法 (ごほう, gohō) usage or expression patterns that characterize writing
Composition
- 文 stands for writing/text, 体 stands for form/body; together they describe the form or organization of writing, i.e., the style of expression in a text.
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Noun (名詞)
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