Linguist

John Rupert Firth

Structural and Theoretical Linguistics

John Rupert Firth (1890-1960), commonly known as J. R. Firth, was an English linguist and a leading figure in British linguistics during the 1950s.

Facts

Birth Year

1890 1

Death Year

1960 1

Role

Linguist 1

Birth Date

1890-06-17 1

Death Date

1960-12-14 1

Classification

Nationality

United Kingdom 1

Connections

Developed prosodic analysis and a contextual theory of meaning largely through the study of English phonology.

Halliday studied under Firth and developed systemic functional linguistics directly from Firth system-structure theory of language.

Sources

1. Wikipedia: J. R. Firth

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John Rupert Firth OBE (17 June 1890 in Keighley, Yorkshire - 14 December 1960 in Lindfield, West Sussex), commonly known as J. R. Firth, was an English linguist and a leading figure in British linguistics during the 1950s.
Nationality, John Rupert Firth entity page
John Rupert Firth (1890-1960), commonly known as J. R. Firth, was an English linguist and a leading figure in British linguistics during the 1950s.

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