文体

Japanese JLPT N1 Vocabulary Japanese ★★★★ 4/5 formal ぶんたいbuntai
読み ぶんたい
ローマ字 buntai
漢字の分解 文 (bun/fumi) — text, writing, literature; 体 (tai/karada) — body, form, style, manner
発音 /bɯn.tai/

意味

Literary style; writing style; prose style. The characteristic manner in which a writer uses language, including sentence structure, diction, rhythm, and tone.

A noun covering all aspects of how a text is written rather than what it says. 文体論 (buntairon) is the field of stylistics. Scholars and critics analyse 文体 to identify authorship, date texts, or evaluate artistic achievement. In translation, preserving the author's 文体 is considered as important as conveying meaning. Readers often recognise a writer instantly by their 文体 alone.

例文

  1. この作家の文体は独特で、句読点の使い方ひとつでそれとわかる。
  2. 文体の変化を辿ることで、作家の思想的な変遷が浮き彫りになってくる。
  3. 優れた翻訳者は原文の内容だけでなく、著者の文体をも日本語で再現しようとする。

使い方ガイド

場面: literary criticism, translation, writing instruction, stylistics, academia

トーン: analytical

起源と歴史

Compound of 文 (bun, text/writing) and 体 (tai, body/form/style). The second character 体 in this usage means 'manner' or 'form,' paralleling its use in compounds such as 字体 (jitai, typeface/letterform) and 書体 (shotai, calligraphic style).

文化的背景

時代: Meiji–Modern

世代: Educated adults

社会的背景: Educated

関連フレーズ

仮名 Kana; the Japanese phonetic syllabary comprising hiragana and katakana, developed from simplified Chinese characters. 侘び寂び Wabi-sabi; a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in imperfection, incompleteness, and transience. An appreciation for the humble, weathered, and irregular. 俳句 Haiku; a traditional Japanese poem of 17 syllables in three lines (5-7-5), typically evoking nature, a season, and a single vivid moment. 入門 Introduction; a primer or entry into a field of study. Also: the formal act of becoming a disciple under a master in a traditional art. 和歌 Waka; traditional Japanese poetry, particularly the tanka form with a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable structure. The classical poetic tradition of Japan as distinguished from Chinese verse. 和紙 Washi; traditional handmade Japanese paper crafted from plant fibres such as kozo (mulberry). A material central to Japanese literary, artistic, and cultural heritage. 四字熟語 A four-character idiom; a compound of four kanji forming a fixed idiomatic expression, often of Chinese origin. Known in English as yojijukugo. 常用漢字 Jōyō kanji; the official list of commonly used Chinese characters in contemporary Japanese.
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