It is American English which has bacome the dominant voice of the mass media, and it is the USA which is increasing its role in relation to local economies, especially through tourism.
Each English speaking country in the tegion has to some extent developed its own variety of standard language, most noticeably through variations in accent and the nude of local vocabulary to reflect indigenous biogeography and cultural practises.
Literary speech:
The peak of personal variaton in the English language is to be found in the courpus of speech and writing that goes under the heading of English literature.
This is a corpus whose boundaries resist definition.Critics authors, cultural historians, syllabus designers and others have often discussed what counts as literature and as the language has spread around the world so the issue has broadened and become more complex.The notion of ,,an English literature“ is now much less easy to work with, because it must cope with the claims of a rapidly increasing range of linquistically divergent literatured, qualified by ethnic/ e.g. black,creole, Afrcian/ regional / e.g. Candian, Ausrtalian, Anglo- Irish/ and other labels.
A similar issue faces the linguis, grappling with the notion odf „ an English language and the claims of new Englishes“ from around the world.
For the linguist these problems of literary definition and edentity provide a clear signal about the uniquieness of this area of language use. The varietes are available to it as a resource. And because there is no theoreticall limit to the subject- matter of literature, so there is no theoretical limit to the language variations which authors may choose to employ.
This is not gainsay the fact that in the history of literature there have been periods of authorial practise and school of critical thought which could identify a genre of literary language in this way.At various times- illustrated in poetry diction or by 18th century Augustan notions of classical elegance- authors were prepared to write according to certain linguistic conventions and their attitudes defined a canon of contemporary literature.
The traditional concept of literary ? dictin“ is one such nition which arose from this outlook. But the present- day consensus is otherwise.Anything that occurs in language: it seems can now be put to work in the service of literature and the notion of a clear – cut obundary between literary and now – literary domains turns out to be chimerical- The answer to the question „ What is literature? Is not to be found in the study of its linguistic properties.
Refusing to recognize a variety of „ literary English“ need not in any way diminish the central role that literature plays in developing our experience of the language. On the contrary: it can reinforce it as long as we go on to show ho lieteray experience everywhere makes contact with everyday language. Although literature cannot be identifies by language it is wholly indetified with it for it has no other medium of expression.