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• Firth — Firthian, adj. /ferrth/, n. John Rupert, 1890 1960, English linguist. * * * …   Universalium

• Prague Linguistic Circle — The Prague Linguistic Circle or Prague school (French Cercle linguistique de Prague , Czech Pražský lingvistický kroužek ) was an influential group of literary critics and linguists in Prague. Its proponents developed methods of structuralist… …   Wikipedia

• John Rupert Firth — (1890, Keighley, Yorkshire ndash; 1960), commonly known as J. R. Firth, was an English linguist. He was Professor of English at the University of the Punjab from 1919 1928. He then worked in the phonetics department of University College London… …   Wikipedia

• John Local — John Local, BA, Ph.D. (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) (born 1947), is a British phonetician and Professor of Phonetics at the University of York. He was one of the creators of the experimental Yorktalk non segmental speech synthesis system… …   Wikipedia

• Halliday, M.A.K. — ▪ British linguist in full  Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday   born April 13, 1925, Leeds, Yorkshire, Eng.       British linguist, teacher, and proponent of neo Firthian theory who viewed language basically as a social phenomenon.… …   Universalium

• language — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) System of communication Nouns 1. language, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, protolanguage; living or dead language; idiom, parlance, phraseology; wording; dialect, patois, cant, jargon, lingo,… …   English dictionary for students