مجلة الآداب و اللغات
Volume 5, Numéro 3, Pages 37-43
2005-12-20

Dialect Use In The English Literary Text Between Language Variability And Levels Of Formality

Authors : Ilhem Serir .

Abstract

In fact the idea of this paper stems from a perpetual misunderstanding between linguistic and literary researchers. While the former claim that they protect language from lies, lies that are all in all fiction, fiction that is nothing but magic spell. In linguistics, language is exact and intact; language is good and good is mind. The latter protest that they serve language with beauty, beauty that is all in all truth, truth that is nothing but knowledge, knowledge is power. In literature language is aesthetically communicated and communication is civilization. We are left in doubt as to be rational or sympathetic, logic or flexible while there are urgent needs to decide the note on which the string will vibrate.

Keywords

Dialect-Language-Formality