The so-called "defamiliarization", in layman's terms, means "putting it another way" to express familiarity and strangeness. When describing or stating our common things or truths, we don't use what most people are used to saying, but adopt a unique and unique expression language-a "strange face", which will bring a bright color to the article. There are two sentences: "Spring is coming." "Birds wet with drizzle fell on the river, and the river rose slightly. When the breeze blows, the willow branches caught on the shore are cut into silk strands and danced into a graceful tune. " (Dong Huaao's "Looking at Spring") Two sentences express the same meaning, that is, spring is coming, and we can all understand it, but it seems that the latter is easier to grasp the reader's heart, because it is easier to trigger our poetic association and imagination and get a good feeling. The acquisition of this aesthetic feeling depends on the defamiliarization of language.
Methods and skills of language defamiliarization
Analyzing these sentences, it is not difficult to find that they have two common characteristics: from the way, they concretize abstract things and vilify familiar things; In terms of methods, it is a comprehensive application of rhetorical devices such as transposition, synaesthesia, novel metaphor and personification. Using these methods skillfully, we can turn decay into magic and conventional knowledge into novelty, so that readers can get unexpected aesthetic experience.
Metaphor is one of the most common rhetorical devices, and its main function is to transform abstraction into concreteness. Novel metaphors can also vilify ordinary things, increase the sense of distance between people and things, and thus gain aesthetic feeling.