The Real Professor Higgins
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The Real Professor Higgins

Beverly Collins, Inger M. Mees

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The Real Professor Higgins

Beverly Collins, Inger M. Mees

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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 This book, richly illustrated with partly unpublished material traces Jones's life and career, including his contacts with other linguists, and with figures outside the linguistic world notably Robert Bridges and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.

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2012
ISBN
9783110812367
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

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