Stylistic stratification of the English vocabulary

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2 Common literary and common colloquial vocabulary

Common literary and common colloquial vocabulary

Some linguists deny the possibility of working out a systematic classification of the English vocabulary.
Problems (Skrebnev):
1. The word stock of any natural language is highly heterogeneous;
2. Words cannot be analysed as isolated units;
3. Polysemy and polyfunctionality of words (one word can be placed in several lexical classes).
Other scholars think that the word stock can be represented as a system in which different aspects of words may be singled out as interdependent.

On the basis of these oppositions I. Galperin singles out 3 major layers of the English vocabulary:

Standard English comprises stylistically neutral words, common literary and common colloquial vocabulary.

SE constitutes the foundation of the lexico-semantic system of the English language.
Special literary and Special colloquial vocabularies are dependent on it and cannot be explained and understood without the knowledge of SE.
That is why SE is taught all over the world, although it may be considered a kind of abstraction:
Randolph Quirk (“The Use of English”): “We have seen that standard English is basically ideal, a mode of expression that we seek when we wish to communicate beyond our immediate community… As an ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised…In fact, however, any of us can read a newspaper printed in Leeds, San Francisco or Delhi without difficulty and often even without realising that there are differences at all.”

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