Is there any usage of である outside the literary works?

Question

I have heard であります being used in TED talks, as use of である i have heard it in Kotaro but that also in a comical way as Kotaro talks like his favourite Samurai character.

Is there any dialect that still uses this ?

Answer 1

であります is grammatically a form of である, but their usages are very different.

• In the middle of a sentence, である is common at the end of a relative clause. This type of である is preferred in formal sentences, but does not sound particularly literary.
  • Relative clause ending with a noun should be followed by の or である? What is the difference?
  • Usage of noun-modifying である
• At the end of a sentence,
  • である is the default copula in academic manuscripts, Wikipedia articles and the like. だ sounds too blunt in such cases. In novels, である and だ are used interchangeably or arbitrarily according to the writer's preference.
  • であります (the polite version of である) is unusual and sounds rather pompous. It doesn't sound particularly samurai-ish, but people usually only use it in very formal speeches or conferences. If anything, using it a lot will make you sound like a politician or a military man.
  • Of course, its negative version, で(は)ありません, is super-common and used in every kind of polite sentences.