Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Jonathan Swift- Language and Style
- Swift was interested in English language: history,
theories, vocabulary, etc.
- Linguistic conservative.
- He used to focus on politics of the language
- And so his writings on language we part
of politics projects
- Regarding his linguistic position:
''The study of the English
Language'' and to avoid '' (...) terms
and expressions peculiar to
Ireland''.
- Swift proposed a different model of lingustic in which
simplicity and propriety seem to be the base of it.
- Gulliver's Travels