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文体論 (ぶんたいろん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

文ぶん体たい論ろん

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Meanings

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noun

stylistics

Academic term for the study of literary style, including analysis of linguistic features, rhetoric, and expressive choices in texts.

彼かれは大だい学がくで文ぶん体たい論ろんを専せん攻こうしている。
He is majoring in stylistics at university.
この論ろん文ぶんは村むら上かみ春はる樹きの文ぶん体たい

論ろん

的てき

分ぶん

析せき

だ

。

This paper is a stylistic analysis of Haruki Murakami.

Kanji

文sentence, literature, style
体body, substance, object
論argument, discourse

Similar words

修しゅう辞じ学がく
修辞学 (rhetoric) focuses on persuasive techniques and figures of speech, while 文体論 (stylistics) examines broader stylistic features and individual authorial style.
文ぶん章しょう論ろん
文章論 (text linguistics/discourse analysis) deals with the structure and coherence of texts, whereas 文体論 is specifically concerned with style and expressive choices.

Etymology

Compound of 文体 (ぶんたい, 'literary style') + 論 (ろん, 'theory' or 'discourse'). The term is a direct adaptation of Western 'stylistics' as an academic discipline.