authorial voice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofauthorialandvoice
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authorial
adjective[before noun]
uk/ɔːˈθɔː.ri.əl/us/ɑːˈθɔːr.i.əl/
relating to the author of a book, article, ...
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voice
noun
uk/vɔɪs/us/vɔɪs/
the sounds that are made when people speak ...
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(Definition ofauthorialandvoicefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Unlike the chronicles, in these works theauthorialvoiceis modestly but clearly heard.
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From this perspective, theauthorialvoicecan appear both too strong and too weak.
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Shawal does not use the first person and hisauthorialvoiceremains subdued.
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Blogs that are most successful, whether in reaching out to a few readers or hundreds of thousands, tend to have a strongauthorialvoice.
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It refused, and still refuses a singleauthorialvoice.
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This category includes the individual voice, the narrative voice, and theauthorialvoicethat reveals interiority and carves out distinctions between individual and collective bodies.
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Theauthorialvoiceenjoys a modernist control over the symbolic language, gelid and obscure, and a modernist distance from its disintegrating subject.
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In our age, we are of course accustomed to a very different kind ofauthorialvoice, more didactic, more ' explanatory ', especially in the social sciences.
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Again, however, the epistolary form focuses attention on theauthorialvoice.
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Gailey's is a slim volume which seeks to impart basic information on every country without much sense of anauthorialvoicerunning through it.
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Alas, this occulted sentiment expresses itself only in a muffledauthorialvoiceand in passive tense.
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First, some discussion of texts in which his ownauthorialvoiceis more directly audible.
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There was noauthorialvoice, wry, gently mocking, poised with a sinuous metaphor or sprightly adjective.
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They warn of the dangers interpretations could suffer from when associating the subject of inherently meaningful words and language with the personality of oneauthorialvoice.
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While finding the two authorial voices thus mixed may be somewhat perplexing, it is at the same time stimulating and serves a clear purpose.
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