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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• VerfasserIn: Collins, Beverly,; Mees, Inger M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (597 p.)

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 This book, richly illustrated with partly unpublished material traces Jones's...

Table of 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