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 ?

  
  
  
  
  

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Is there any usage of である outside the literary works?
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?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/36743/5010)
    * [Usage of noun-modifying である](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/9929/5010)
  * **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.
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