Written Vs Spoken Language

Written vs Spoken language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born British philosopher (Monk 2019), once said “Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it”. Language is one of the most important functions that human body can perform. No matter what people do whether they learn, work or meet a friend for lunch - they talk. Each one of us live in a world where language is the main aspect of our life. People use not only spoken language but also another type of communicating called written language. Because of written language our society is able to communicate through texts, articles and books. Comparing written and spoken language at first they may seem very different because of their deliverance and their performed functions.

One obvious difference would be that these two types of communication have different structures. Written language tends to use longer and more complex sentences which indicates written language as being formal (Zhang, B. 2013). Also, written language is highly planned and is named as artificial communication because of its limited reciprocity between the author and the reader (Thanh 2015).