QUESTIONS ON CROWLEY:

1)     1)  Elocution is pronunciation, elocution lessons are lessons to improve your voice and pronunciation.

      2)  Two languages spoken vs one language spoken.                    

      3) The speech of the court and that of london and the shires lying about London.

      4) Copious means great in quantity, abundant.  \ˈkō-pē-əs\

      5) A trope is a figure of speech, such as a metaphor.

      6) Because the linkage of language and war is a very common trope in the 18th cent. and because war is the context in which the texts of this period  are set.

      7) Encomium is a warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise, a tribute.

      8) Swift.

      9) Yes.

     10) Defoe.

     11)   Becuase they thought it was a fierce, a violent imposition.

     12)   Genius is the skill, the mental capacity.    

     13)   Because of the Imperial downfall.

     14)   In this case suffer means to allow.

     15)   Herder.

     16)   He proposed that Clergy should be taught pronunciation in order to act as the medium by which it could be propagated at Mass.

     17)   They describe european languages as flimsy, neat, grave, belgic, hoarse, rough. I don’t agree. 

     18)   Robinson Crusoe.

     19)   Traders.

     20)   For Business.

     21)   The speech of the people who are “allowed to speak properly”.

     22)   Word by word.

     23)   To teach it to their male children and to act as companion to the male in the public sphere. 

     24)   Because servants affected children.

     25) Structural vs occasional.