The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel JonesThis 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 This book, richly illustrated with partly unpublished material traces Jones's life and career, including his contacts with other linguists, and with figures outside the linguistic world notably Robert Bridges and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. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 Early years at University College London 190810 | 53 |
Chapter 4 Building up the Department 191114 | 81 |
Chapter 5 Studying spoken language | 104 |
Chapter 6 Not adversely affected by the war 191417 | 128 |
Chapter 7 A sort of mission | 156 |
Chapter 8 The Outline | 190 |
Chapter 13 Final years | 358 |
Chapter 14 Joness contribution to phonetics and linguistics | 389 |
Appendix Historical Background | 431 |
Examination Papers | 459 |
International Phonetic Alphabet charts | 465 |
Notes | 471 |
List of interviews | 489 |
A chronological bibliography of the publications of Daniel Jones | 491 |
Chapter 9 A Professor of Phonetics 191921 | 243 |
Chapter 10 They do nothing but phonetics 192130 | 271 |
Chapter 11 Upstairs and downstairs 193139 | 306 |
Chapter 12 In the Blitz and after 193950 | 334 |
References | 505 |
Index | 531 |
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The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones Beverley Collins,Inger M. Mees Limited preview - 1999 |
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