Spoken language is historically and functionally primary compared to written language.
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The retrieved evidence touches on traditional views where writing was considered secondary to speech and notes that historical spoken dialects contribute to literary language formation, but it lacks comprehensive direct coverage establishing the absolute historical and functional primacy of spoken language.
Language is a primary means of expressing a society’s cultural, historical, and social life. Literary language and dialects constitute two main manifestations of this broader linguistic system. Literary language represents the normative and codified form of language, employed in education, official documents, literature, and media. Dialects, in contrast, are linguistic varieties associated with specific regions and social groups, distinguished by phonetic, lexical, syntactic, and stylistic features. A complex and dynamic relationship exists between literary language and dialects. Historically, dialects have played a crucial role in the formation of literary language, providing lexical material, phraseology, idioms, and folklore elements that enrich its expressive capacity. Conversely, literary language exerts a normative influence over dialects, standardizing certain features and shaping them into socially accepted forms. From a sociolinguistic perspective, the relationship between dialects and literary language also involves considerations of prestige, value, and social acceptance. The integration of dialectal elements into literary language and their use in literary style contributes to the emergence of new standard forms, thereby ensuring the vitality of the language. The interactions between literary language and dialects are also significant for preserving regional linguistic diversity and cultural heritage. Dialects serve not only as forms of spoken communication but al
Frontiers | The Third Dimension. On the Dichotomy Between Speech and Writing
#### Psychology of Language
Published inFrontiers in Communication 2 impact factor2.9 citescore
## ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Commun., 07 June 2021
Sec. Psychology of Language
Volume 6 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.695917
# The Third Dimension. On the Dichotomy Between Speech and Writing
- LTLorenzo Tomasin *
Faculté des Lettres, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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## Abstract
This paper introduces a more complex and refined articulated view than the classic and simple dichotomy of linguistic production. According to the traditional doxa, what is linguistically articulated is either spoken or written. Forms of written language have previously been considered a secondary representation of spoken forms and, at least in the alphabetic system, the only properly linguistic form. I argue that there exists a third dimension of language, which is internal. This internal form is lexically, phonetically and grammatically articulated, without being spoken in a proper sense, but which can be seen as the pre-condition for both spoken and written pr
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