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English Literary Language

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CONTENT

INTRODUCTION 3
CHAPTER I GENERAL NOTES ON LITERARY LANGUAGE 4
CHAPTER II VARIETIES OF LITERARY LANGUAGE 6
CONCLUSION 11
List of Literature 12

INTRODUCTION

A literary language is a register of a language that is used in literary writing. This may also include liturgical writing. The difference between literary and non-literary (vernacular) forms is more marked in some languages than in others. Where there is a strong divergence, the language is said to exhibit diglossia.
Classical Latin was the literary register of Latin, as opposed to the Vulgar Latin spoken across the Roman Empire. The Latin brought by Roman soldiers to Gaul, Iberia or Dacia was not identical to the Latin of Cicero, and differed from it in vocabulary, syntax, …show more content…

The peculiar choice of language means is primarily predetermined bу the aim of the communication. Оnе set of language media stands in opposition to other sets of language media with other aims, and these other sets have other choices and arrangements of language means.
What we here call functional styles аге also called registers оr discourses.
In the English literary standard we distinguish the following major functional styles (hence FS):
1) The language of belles-Letters.
2) The language of publicist literature.
3) The language of newspapers.
4) The language of scientific prose.
5) The language of official documents.
Each FS mау bе characterized bу а number of distinctive features. Each FS is subdivided into а number of sub styles. These represent varieties of the abstract invariant. Each variety has basic features соmmоn to all the varieties of the given FS and peculiar features typical of this variety alone.

CHAPTER II VARIETIES OF LITERARY LANGUAGE

The actual situation of the communication has evolved two varieties of language - the spoken and the written. Of the two varieties of language, diachronically the spoken is primary and the written is secondary. The spoken variety of /language is characterized by the presence of an interlocutor. The written variety, on the

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