TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins,Beverly
AU  - Mees,Inger M.
TI  - The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones 
SN  - 9783110151244
AV  - P85.J648 C65 1998
U1  - 410 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Linguists
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Phonetics
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 This book, richly illustrated with partly unpublished material traces Jones's life and career, including his contacts with other linguists, and with figures outside the linguistic world notably Robert Bridges and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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110812367
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ER  -