booklanguage
Booklanguage is a flexible, nonstandard term that appears in different fields to designate the language commonly found in books or in discussions of literary prose. It is not a fixed linguistic category, but rather a label used to contrast written literary language with everyday speech.
In linguistics and stylistics, book language refers to the conventional form of a language that editors and
In publishing and editorial practice, attention to book language includes style guides, line-by-line editing, and consistency
In digital humanities and computational contexts, "booklanguage" is sometimes used as a tag or label for corpora
Because the term is not standardized, its precise meaning depends on the field and author. See also