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Notes 26.4 Review Questions

1. Discuss the satire Swift used in his works.
2. Critically examine ‘Hints towards an Essay on Conversation’.
Answers: Self-Assessment
1. (i)(a) (ii)(a) (iii)(d) (iv)(c)

26.5 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) The Lexical Bar. Oxford: Pergamon
7. Cruden A. (1796) Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments
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

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