Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… of ‘cant’, i.e. of hypocrisy, flourished in a century that saw the development of new models of sociability relying on fashion and informality as well as of emotional preaching. Concepts > Language & Speech Keywords Controversy Conversation … neglected; suffered to spread under the direction of chance, into wild exuberance; resigned to the tyranny of time and fashion; and exposed to the corruption of ignorance, and caprices of innovation.’ (Johnson, ‘Preface’) Fashion was therefore deemed susceptible to threaten the English language as new linguistic usages originating in …
Controversy | Conversation | Hypocrisy | Rhetoric
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