Emphasis

Emphasis (also: Emphasis) goes back to the ancient Greek verb ἐμφαίνω ( emphaínō ), the " ideological / make it clear / obvious " can mean " show ", " evince " or. Therefore, emphasis actually means " publicly viewable display" or " clarification " in later use " power of expression " or " emphasis in the speech." Contrary to is, however, already in the Greek connotation " paraphrase ".

Introduction

The concept has emphasis in individual subject areas have different meanings:

• In the transmission equipment, an automatic raising and lowering the frequency of the signal to improve the transmission quality, see pre-emphasis.
• In drama and storytelling, as well as the written literary devices the emphasis is particularly strong, enthusiastic, our own inner movement and agreement reflecting expression and thus an intensified form of ethos. The emphasis is in some ways the counterpart ( pendant ) to the pathos, in which one's own compassion and shudder is expressed. Based on the original meaning of the word ( ancient Greek: ἐμφαίνω " show (etc.) " ) the author uses Gerd Hergenstadt Lubben for his plays pentad " Firefoot my account ", the term " emphases on stage ", where pictures, words and gestures of form and content be understood as each independent means of expression of the play. Emphasis can be expressed by: phonetic agents: emphasis, vocal enhancement
• Syntactic means: rhetorical question, exclamation, special emphasis
• Declamatory means: Kunstpause
• In the lecture arts in addition, the means of body language emphasis are available, ie through facial expressions or gestures and the like

• In the rhetoric Although emphasis is mostly used for " clarification " or " emphasis ", but for some of the rhetoric theorists (eg Quintilian ) it denotes a trope in which a thing is circumscribed by a less accurate, often trivializing expression.

• In book printing (typography ) denotes the emphasis highlighting sections of text ( typestyle ), such as bold or italic.

• In linguistics, the Semitic languages ​​, the term " emphatic consonants " a special class of noise consonants. The exact phonetic pronunciation of the emphatic consonants varies between languages ​​and includes ejective consonants in Ethiopian, and velar or pharynginale consonants in the Arabic language. The emphatic consonants count ض ظ ص ط in Arabic, and ק צ ט in Hebrew.