“Crowley” text’s answers

1. What does elocution mean?

2. What do polyglossia and monoglossia mean?

3. What kind of English does Puttenham recommend?

4. What does copious mean?

5. What does trope mean?

6. Why does Crowley call the standardization process a war?

7. What does encomium mean?

8. Who wrote the proposal for correcting, improving and ascertaining the emglish tongue?

Johnathan Swift

9. Do Johnson and Swift agree that the English language has degenerated?

10. Swift proposes an academy. Who else?

Daniel Defoe

11. Why were the whigs against an academy?

12. What does Sheridan mean by the genius of the people?

13. What reason does Swift give for the decay of Latin?

14. What does“suffer” mean?

15. Who was the first person to make the link between language and nation?

Herder

16. What was Sheridan´s solution to the problem of divergence in pronunciantion?

17. How did several authors describe other European languages?

18. In which novel did Defoe capture colonial fantasy?

In Robinson Crusoe

19. Locke thought that learning Latin was not necessary for:

20. How did learning standard English help to empower people?

21. What kind of English is proper?

22. How was the inculcation of linguistic patterns carried out with middle-class children?

23. What was the purpose of training women linguistically in the 18th C. according to Crowley?

24. Why did Locke warn against children talking to servants?

25. What was the difference between the mistakes made by the working classes and those made by the Gentry according to Sheridan?