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 This book, richly illustrated with partly unpublished material traces Jones's life and career, including his contacts with other linguists, and with figures outside the linguistic world notably Robert Bridges and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.
Author(s): Beverley Collins; Inger M. Mees
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 571
City: Berlin
Contents
Foreword
List of illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 In the days of his youth (1881?1903)
1.1. Birth
1.2. Family background
1.3. Ludgrove Preparatory School
1.4. Radley College
1.5. University College School
1.6. Cambridge and after
1.7. William Tilly
1.8. Jones at Institut Tilly
2 An aptitude for phonetics (1904?07)
2.1. A timely illness
2.2. The Motte family
2.3. Paul Passy
2.4. Passy?s classes and the IPA examination
2.5. Phonetics at University College
2.6. Joining the IPA and early publications
2.7. Phonetic transcriptions of English prose
2.8. Le Ma?tre phon?tique 1907
2.9. Henry Sweet
2.10. Jones?s first encounters with Sweet
2.11. ?Implosives and clicks? and the Organic Alphabet
2.12. Provost Gregory Foster
3 Early years at University College London (1908?10)
3.1. Teaching at University College 1908?09
3.2. Chaucer and Shakespeare
3.3. Intonation curves
3.4. The pronunciation of English
3.5. Articles in 1908?09
3.6. Foundation of the Simplified Spelling Society
3.7. Grenoble
3.8. Discussions with Palmer
3.9. Chindau
3.10. Elections in the IPA
3.11. Teaching at University College 1909?10
4 Building up the Department (I911?14)
4.1. The links with Paul Passy
4.2. Cyrille Motte
4.3. A wedding in Brittany
4.4. Return to London
4.5. Departmental status
4.6. The Paris Lecture
4.7. Tours of Scandinavia and India 1912?13
4.8. The death of Sweet
4.9. Bernard Shaw and Pygmalion
4.10. The Simplified Spelling Society
4.11. The battles with Bridges
5 Studying spoken language
5.1. Phonetic readings in English
5.2. The Cantonese phonetic reader and the London Phonetic Reader series
5.3. The Michaelis?Jones Phonetic dictionary
5.4. Minor publications 1911?14
5.5. The IPA Principles
5.6. Work for the IPA 1911?14
5.7. Transcription in Le Ma?tre phon?tique
5.8. University College 1912?14
5.9. Jones at Oxford
5.10. Stephen Jones and the Laboratory
5.11. The outbreak of war
6 Not adversely affected by the war (1914?17)
6.1. Adjustments to wartime
6.2. The Department in the early war years
6.3. A readership
6.4. The appointment of Harold Palmer
6.5. Death of Jones?s father
6.6. The Jones family
6.7. Solomon Plaatje
6.8. The Sechuana reader
6.9. Jones?s methods of linguistic fieldwork
7 A sort of mission
7.1. Ripman?s influence
7.2. The English pronouncing dictionary
7.3. The Cardinal Vowel model of vowel description
7.4. The work of the Department in the later war years
7.5. The Philological Society Lecture and the term ?phoneme?
7.6. Jones?s experimental interests and the Cardinal Vowels
7.7. Work of the Department 1917?18
7.8. Lilias Armstrong and H.S. Perera
7.9. The birth of Jones?s son
7.10. The idea of an Institute of Phonetics
7.11. The coming of peace
8 The Outline
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Opening chapters
8.3. Classification of consonants and vowels
8.4. Description of consonants
8.5. Description of vowels
8.6. Supra-segmental features
8.7. Intonation
8.8 The kymograph
8.9 Appendices
9 A Professor of Phonetics (1919?21)
9.1. Work of the Department 1919?21
9.2. Ida Ward and H?l?ne Coustenoble
9.3. The proposed Institute of Phonetics
9.4. A Colloquial Sinhalese Reader
9.5. Dorothy Parkinson and Arthur Lloyd James
9.6. Unpublished lectures on Italian, Spanish and French
9.7. Health problems
9.8. A Professor of Phonetics
10 They do nothing but phonetics (1921?30)
10.1. The later career
10.2. The Department in the early twenties
10.3. Vacation courses
10.4. Family and personal life 1921?30
10.5. The pronunciation of Russian
10.6. Shorter publications and revisions 1921?30
10.7. Colloquial French
10.8. Involvement in theosophy
10.9. The IPA and Le Ma?tre phon?tique in the 1920s
10.10. Otto Jespersen and the Copenhagen Conference
10.11. Involvement with the BBC
10.12. Travels to the USA and elsewhere
10.13. The Department in the 1920s
10.14. John Rupert Firth
11 Upstairs and downstairs (1931?39)
11.1. Changes in University College
11.2. A house in Gerrards Cross
11.3. Revision of the Outline and the EPD
11.4. The phoneme (and the Joneme)
11.5. Shorter publications
11.6. Work of the Department in the thirties
11.7. Upstairs and downstairs
11.8. Firth?s growing influence
11.9. Dennis Fry
11.10. The 1935 Conference
11.11. The rise and fall of the Simplified Spelling Society
11.12. Honour and bereavement
11.13. The IPA in the 1930s
11.14. The outbreak of war
12 In the Blitz and after (1939?50)
12.1. The phoney war and evacuation
12.2. In the Blitz
12.3. The feud with Firth
12.4. Return to Gordon Square
12.5. The Z?rich Lecture and ?The London School of Phonetics?
12.6. Publications on the phoneme
12.7. New alphabets
12.8. The SSS and Bernard Shaw
12.9. Work for the BBC
12.10. The IPA and Le Ma?tre phon?tique
12.11. Final years at University College
12.12. Retirement
13 Final years
13.1. Jones in retirement
13.2. Theosophy and Maud MacCarthy
13.3. Family life
13.4. The Phoneme: introduction
13.5. The Phoneme: opening chapters
13.6. The Phoneme: aspects of phonemic analysis
13.7. The Phoneme: suprasegmental features
13.8. The Phoneme: wider implications
13.9. Reactions to the Phoneme
13.10. Revision of the Pronunciation of English
13.11. Annus mirabilis
13.12. Shorter publications 1950?60
13.13. The elder statesman of phonetics
13.14. Activities in last years
13.15. The phonetics of Russian
13.16. Death
14 Jones?s contribution to phonetics and linguistics
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Establishing and running the University College Department
14.3. The International Phonetic Association
14.4. Other organisational activities
14.5. Description and teaching of English
14.6. English as a foreign language
14.7. Description and teaching of French
14.8. Ear-training techniques
14.9. Transcription
14.10. Jones?s view of phonetics
14.11. Description of languages other than English
14.12. Intonation of English
14.13. Tone languages
14.14. The Cardinal Vowel system
14.15. Chaucerian and Shakespearean reconstructions
14.16. The concept of the phoneme
14.17. Conclusion
Appendix Historical background
A.1 The roots of phonetic studies
A.2. The early development of the English School
A.3. Britain and America in the nineteenth century
A.4. Germany and Scandinavia
A.5. France and Switzerland
A.6. Eastern Europe
A.7. Historical surveys of nineteenth and early twentieth century phonetics/phonology
Examination Papers
International Phonetic Alphabet charts
Notes
List of interviews
A chronological bibliography of the publications of Daniel Jones
References
Index
