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The Real Professor Higgins : The Life and Career of Daniel Jones / Beverly Collins, Inger M. Mees.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (597 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110151244
  • 9783110812367
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 410 23
LOC classification:
  • P85.J648 C65 1998
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-vi -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. In the days of his youth (1881—1903) -- Chapter 2. An aptitude for phonetics (1904-07) -- Chapter 3. Early years at University College London (1908-10) -- Chapter 4. Building up the Department (1911-14) -- Chapter 5. Studying spoken language -- Chapter 6. Not adversely affected by the war (1914-17) -- Chapter 7. A sort of mission -- Chapter 8. The Outline -- Chapter 9. A Professor of Phonetics (1919-21) -- Chapter 10. They do nothing but phonetics (1921-30) -- Chapter 11. Upstairs and downstairs (1931-39) -- Chapter 12. In the Blitz and after (1939-50) -- Chapter 13. Final years -- Chapter 14. Jones's contribution to phonetics and linguistics -- Appendix. Historical Background -- Examination Papers -- International Phonetic Alphabet charts -- Notes -- List of interviews -- A chronological bibliography of the publications of Daniel Jones -- References -- Index
Summary: This volume presents the first full-scale biography of Daniel Jones, a preeminent scholar and leading British phonetician of the early twentieth century, and the first linguist to hold a chair at a British university. This book, richly illustrated with partly unpublished material traces Jones's life and career, including his contacts with other linguists, and with figures outside the linguistic world notably Robert Bridges and George Bernard Shaw.

i-vi -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. In the days of his youth (1881—1903) -- Chapter 2. An aptitude for phonetics (1904-07) -- Chapter 3. Early years at University College London (1908-10) -- Chapter 4. Building up the Department (1911-14) -- Chapter 5. Studying spoken language -- Chapter 6. Not adversely affected by the war (1914-17) -- Chapter 7. A sort of mission -- Chapter 8. The Outline -- Chapter 9. A Professor of Phonetics (1919-21) -- Chapter 10. They do nothing but phonetics (1921-30) -- Chapter 11. Upstairs and downstairs (1931-39) -- Chapter 12. In the Blitz and after (1939-50) -- Chapter 13. Final years -- Chapter 14. Jones's contribution to phonetics and linguistics -- Appendix. Historical Background -- Examination Papers -- International Phonetic Alphabet charts -- Notes -- List of interviews -- A chronological bibliography of the publications of Daniel Jones -- References -- Index

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This volume presents the first full-scale biography of Daniel Jones, a preeminent scholar and leading British phonetician of the early twentieth century, and the first linguist to hold a chair at a British university. This book, richly illustrated with partly unpublished material traces Jones's life and career, including his contacts with other linguists, and with figures outside the linguistic world notably Robert Bridges and George Bernard Shaw.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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