Page 284 - DENG502_PROSE

Prose

Notes • Compare Swift’s thoughts on this “useful and innocent . . . pleasure” with those expressed
by Francis Bacon in “Of Discourse,” Samuel Johnson in “Conversation,” William Cowper in
“On Conversation,” and H.G. Wells in “Of Conversation: An Apology.”

25.3 Key-Words

1. Elocution : Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style,
and tone
2. Vizard mask : a mask for hiding the face

25.4 Review Questions

1. Write a short note on Swift’s Life and Works.
2. Briefly describe the essay “Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation”.
Answers: Self-Assessment

1. (i)(a) (ii)(b) (iii)(b)
25.5 Further Readings

1. Biber, D., Johannsen, S., Leech, G., Conrad, S., and Finegan, E. (1999) Longman
Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman
2. Boas, F. (1911) Handbook of American Indian Languages. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institute, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 40
3. Carter, R. (1986) Vocabulary: Applied Linguistics Perspectives. London: Routledge
4. Cohen, D. (1980) On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace USC/ISI IEN 137 April 1, 1980
URL: http://khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu/wollman/ien-137.txt
5. Castle, T. J. (1999) Why the Houyhnhnms don’t write: Swift, Satire and the fear
of the text. In Wood, N. (1999) Jonathan Swift. Harlow: Longman
6. Chomsky, N. (1957) Syntactic Structures. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Corson, D. (1985)
6. The Lexical Bar. Oxford: Pergamon Cruden A. (1796) Complete Concordance to the
Old and New Testaments
7. Eliot, T.S. (1923) Ulysses, Order and Myth” in Selected Essays 1917-1932 (1932; rev.
ed., 1950) London: Faber and Faber.
8. Francis, W.N. (1992) Language Corpora B.C. Paper Presented at the Nobel
Symposium on Corpus Linguistics, Stockholm, August 4-8, 1991. In Svartvik, J.
(Ed.) Directions in Corpus Linguistics. Berlin and New York: Moutin

278 LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY