Meaning of diction in English
(Definition of diction from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
diction | American Dictionary
the manner in which words are pronounced
Examples of diction
diction
Precise analysis of diction and discourse is not invited here.
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The company's fluent acting, comic ingenuity, clarity of diction, unaffected style of vocal ensemble and communicative warmth have repeatedly been praised.
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A common characteristic was that they were actors rather than singers: clear diction and strong stage personality were more important than a trained singing voice.
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Latinised diction was regarded as the most suitable for works which were sonorous, magniloquent and authoritative.
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What, then, is the significance of the conservative diction of these poems?
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The presence of these compounds is thus strong evidence for the conservative nature of the diction of these poems.
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Diction has been neglected in the theatre recently.
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Thus, the larger the corpus the diction covers, the few problems with new words will arise in tokenization and segmentation.
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While a certain delicacy, reticence, and preciosity of diction do distinguish many poems, much of it is apprentice work and should be valued as such.
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It cannot be pretended that such eccentric (and uneven) diction makes it easy to edit the text.
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Supervisors should not expect their subordinates to exactly mirror their own syntax and diction.
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They metaphorize her diction and figurative language, for example, in terms of chaos, terror, and meaninglessness.
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For example, students have only two lessons in diction a week, each of a quarter of an hour.
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This kind of class would include more than the diction taught at present.
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But we know nothing of such schools - not even if they existed - and explaining this conservative diction through an unknown is poor methodology.
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Translations of diction
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diction…
ifade, söyleyiş…
voordracht…
dikce…
udtale…
cara bicara…
การเลือกคำมาใช้พูดหรือเขียน…
cách nói…
dykcja…
sätt att uttrycka sig, språk…
sebutan…
die Ausdrucksweise…
diksjon, uttale…
дикція…
