First Person Singular II
Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences
Published on 12. July 1991
Book
Hardback
303 pages
978-90-272-4548-9 (ISBN)
Description
This sequel to First Person Singular (1980) presents autobiographical sketches of 15 eminent scholars in the language sciences. These personal reminiscences on their careers in linguistics reflect developments in the field over the past decades and shed light on the role each of them played and the influences they underwent. This book is a valuable source for scholars of the history of ideas in general and for historiographers of linguistics in particular, while it makes interesting reading for every linguist interested in the history of the discipline. The volume includes photographs of all contributors and is completed by an index of names and an index of subjects and languages.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-4548-9 (9789027245489)
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First Person Singular II
Autobiographies by North American scholars in the language sciences
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Content
1. Foreword; 2. From Languages to Philology to Linguistics (by Agard, Frederick B.); 3. First Person, Not Singular (by Bolinger, Dwight); 4. My Linguistic Autobiography (by Chao, Yuen Ren); 5. American Linguistics in Peace and at War (by Cowan, J Milton); 6. A Nova Scotian Becomes a Linguistic Indologist (by Emeneau, Murray B.); 7. My Life through My Work; My Work through My Life (by Fishman, Joshua A.); 8. Six Decades of a Linguistic Audience (by Garvin, Paul L.); 9. On Being a Linguistic Anthropologist (by Greenberg, Joseph H.); 10. Layers of Linguistics (by Hall, Jr., Robert A.); 11. A Linguist's Vita as Historiography (by Kahane, Henry); 12. How I Discovered Linguistics (by Newman, Stanley S.); 13. My Linguistic Odyssey (by Nida, Eugene A.); 14. Must Linguists Also Be Philologists? (by Penzl, Herbert); 15. From Philology to Language and Culture (by Polome, Edgar C.); 16. A Personal Journey through Linguistics (by Read, Allan Walker); 17. Index of Biographical Names; 18. Index of Subjects and Languages; 19. Location of photographs; 20. Frederick B. Agard (1974); 21. Dwight Bolinger (in front of his house in Palo Alto, Calif., 1989); 22. Yuen Ren Chao (picture taken in Berkeley, Calif., in 1977); 23. J Milton Cowan (1990); 24. Murray B. Emeneau (c.1965); 25. Joshua A. Fishman (c.1975); 26. Paul L. Garvin (photograph taken by Antoinette Mucilli, Buffalo, N.Y., in October 1990); 27. Joseph H. Greenberg (1990); 28. Robert A. Hall, Jr. (1989); 29. Henry Kahane (1989); 30. Stanley S. Newman (c.1980); 31. Eugene A. Nida (c.1975); 32. Herbert Penzl (in his office at the Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1990); 33. Edgar C Polome (1987); 34. Allen Walker Read (picture taken on 12 November 1987)