Spoken language is the most used form of communication and as such is present from the beginning of mankind. In spite of this, the discussions about it are a lot less common than those of the written language, which is codified in our grammar ever since 1584. Its study is more complex than the study of written language, because at the birth of the spoken text the subject, which creates the text in the role of the speaker, is of key importance. In the last decade it became a more common subject of many scientific papers even in our society, especially due to technology development, which also enabled the precise study of spoken language. Therefore, it is already known for some time that the elements of spontaneously spoken language are present for quite a long time in literature, which means that the spoken and written language are similar and not so rarely even overlap, although only few theorists discuss about it. A more recent information is their connection with regard to literary forms which are traditionally still more classified within the area of literary theory. Thus, so far, we spoke of them mainly in written language, and in this paper I am trying to prove - based on recorded authentic spontaneously spoken texts - that the narrative and spoken texts can be attributed to literary forms, i.e. that in the spontaneous everyday speech we use some literary forms that are otherwise typically also literary, but we are not aware of that.
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