Presentation
SWIFT, COMEDY, EVIDENTIALITY
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CONFERENCE
(1993)
Abstract
Examines the relationship between the comedy of Swift's A Tale of a Tub, the role of the speaker and satire on modern literature. The point made is that speaker reliability depends directly on the sources of "evidence" h/s presents. To clarify what this entails the author uses the linguistic notion of "evidentiality."
Disciplines
Publication Date
1993
Citation Information
gene washington. "SWIFT, COMEDY, EVIDENTIALITY" EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CONFERENCE (1993) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gene_washington/159/