Characteristics of literary language

Abstract EN

This paper investigates the interface between language and literature on the one hand and literary language and literariness on the other.

Whether there is a literary language or not is a question that is consistently addressed, but it is one which cannot be addressed in isolation either from questions concerning the nature of literature itself or from the institutional contexts (i.e.

schools) where literature and language are taught.

The study includes a comparison between literary and non-literary language.