Fictional Style − The Function of the Standard Language, sui generis Language or »high-end« Style?

Abstract

The work delves into the affiliation of the fictional style to the standard language within a generally accepted functional and stylistic five-member division. Though the scheme of stylistic layering of the standard language displays the functional styles in an almost flat manner, they are even when perceived abstractly an exceptionally complex area which, due to its variety of gender, cannot be deemed homogenous and in like manner regards its relationship with the norms of the standard language. Although the terms »standard language« and »fictional style« are not and cannot be in collision, their relationship is often described with assistance of dual opposition, through perception and listing of differences amongst features of the language prone to normativization and features of the language which presumes freedom of the language choice. Knowing that the fictional style is significantly varied as opposed to other styles of the standard language and to such an extent that lately it has been discussed as an autonomous language type, the scope and boundaries of the traditionally accepted functional and stylistic five-member division are being examined. The work focuses its attention onto examination of both viewpoints, the one in which the fictional style represents one of the functions of the standard language and the other where the fictional style is language sui generis or »high-end style« since a more targeted goal of the work is to prove that the contentions among them are a reflection of different perspectives, the convergence of which can aid a more integral viewpoint of compound and complex phenomenon as is creatively used language.