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This article presents a sketch of the life and work of JR Firth, the first professor of general linguistics in Great Britain and President of the Philological.
John Rupert Firth
English linguist ()
John Rupert FirthOBE (17 June in Keighley, Yorkshire – 14 December in Lindfield, West Sussex), commonly known as J. R. Firth, was an English linguist and a leading figure in British linguistics during the s.[1]
Education and career
Firth studied history at University of Leeds, graduating with a BA in and an MA in He taught history at the City of Leeds Training College before World War I broke out.
He joined the Indian Education Service during –[2] He was Professor of English at the University of the Punjab from to He then worked in the phonetics department of University College London before moving to the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where he became Professor of General Linguistics, a position he held until his retirement in [3]
In July , before the outbreak of war with Japan, Firth attended a conference on the training of Japanese interpreters and translators and began to think of how
