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The Real Professor Higgins
The Life and Career of Daniel Jones
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About this book
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 This book, richly illustrated with partly unpublished material traces Jones's life and career, including his contacts with other linguists, and with figures outside the linguistic world notably Robert Bridges and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.
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Table of contents
- 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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