Stories about sound. Style and rhetoric in the descriptions of audio equipment in the periodical "Hi-FI i Muzyka"

The paper is dedicated to Hi-Fi magazines. The author offers a stylistic analysis of selected texts taken from “Hi-FI i Muzyka” (magazines from the 2012-2014 period), focused on specific types of columns: tests of audio equipment (amplifiers, CD players, gramophones, loudspeakers, etc). The article...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krzysztof Grzegorzewski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2016-02-01
Series:Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/article/view/1263
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Summary:The paper is dedicated to Hi-Fi magazines. The author offers a stylistic analysis of selected texts taken from “Hi-FI i Muzyka” (magazines from the 2012-2014 period), focused on specific types of columns: tests of audio equipment (amplifiers, CD players, gramophones, loudspeakers, etc). The article contains a short description of the magazine and its content, then author has suggested stylistic tools for describing sound (ordered in categories) and offered an analysis with citations.
ISSN:1505-9057
2353-1908