This book assembles the many linguistic observations found in the works of Johnson, and presents them systematically. Johnson on Language: An Introduction argues that in Johnson's opinion there are two fundamentally different ways in which language may be deployed: in a style ap…
Brings together linguistic theory and literary criticism, and examines language as a theme in a range of literary texts. The book includes discussion of Sontag, Joyce, Swift, Hardy, Cummings, Lodge and Gordimer.
