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Literary Criticism

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 The literary language has been defined through history by many different authors. The definitions that have agreed since ancient times is that it is a language aesthetically pleasing  and that imitates or reflects upon people´s lives because there is realistic or non-fictional and fictional literature. Since the Greeks the theory of literature defines itself as the communication which has a pleasure purpose using a lot of stylistic figures and tropes.  The history of literary criticism starts in Greece , in fact the origin of the word comes from "kritei" and "kritikos" that means jugdement and a judge of literature. In Greece between the sixth an fifth centuries appears the earliest known critic named Xenophantes of Colophon who attacked in his works to Homer and Hesiod , the Sophist philosophers wrote about "rhetoric" and poetry especially authors Gorgias and Protagoras . The Greek playwright Aristophanes in his play "The Frogs" in which ther...

Specialized English

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 People can change their language according to different variations which may be social or functional, the social variation of the language that speakers may have varies with their particular region, social and economic class, age or sex group, generation, etc. The functional variation that speakers may have is related to the function of their language whether it is function related to a job, objective, etc. Halliday names the social variation as dialect which differs with the region mainly but also with, social class, generation, age, sex or other grouping   and the functional variation as register. Halliday also describes the varieties related to the function and inside the specific professional fields there are varieties such as scientific, technological, commerical and business English. These varieties of English depend on three variables like the theme or field, the speaker or tenor and the role of the language or mode.  Registers in any language are studied de...