John Cunnison Catford

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John Cunnison "Ian" Catford (born March 26, 1917 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † October 6, 2009 in Seattle , Washington , USA ) was an important Scottish linguist and phonetician .

Life

From a young age, Catford had a talent for precisely imitating phonetic peculiarities and thus developed a passion for phonetics as a schoolboy . At the age of 17 he started working as a phonetician, linguist and radio play speaker for the BBC . As part of his university studies at the University of Edinburgh , he completed an academic year in Paris , where he received a diploma from the Institut de Phonétique.

During World War II , he taught English in Greece , Egypt and Palestine . In 1952 he returned to the University of Edinburgh and devoted himself to the mapping of Scottish dialects as part of the Survey of Scotland.

In 1956 he founded the Edinburgh University School of Applied Linguistics and became its director. The school was the first in the world to focus on the practical application of linguistic theories.

In 1964 he followed a call to the University of Michigan , where he became professor of linguistics and head of the Institute for English. In addition to applied linguistics , he also taught phonetics and phonology , translatology and historical-comparative linguistics.

After his retirement in 1985, he continued to be a visiting professor at Istanbul University , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California in Los Angeles .

From 1988 to 1993 he worked as a senior editor for translation studies at the Encyclopedia of language and linguistics .

Research priorities

Publications

  • On the classification of stop consonants. In: Le Maître Phonétique. 1-3 / 1939, No. 65 International Phonetics Association, Paris 1939.
  • Vowel systems of Scots dialects. In: Transactions of the Philological Society. 1957, pp. 107-117.
  • Phonation types. In: D. Abercrombie et al. (Ed.): In honor of Daniel Jones . Longmans, 1964, ISBN 5-7325-0280-7 , pp. 26-37.
  • A linguistic theory of translation . Oxford University Press, London 1965, ISBN 0-19-437018-6 .
  • The Articulatory possibilities of man. In: B. Malmberg (Ed.): Manual of Phonetics. North Holland Publishing, Amsterdam 1968, ISBN 0-7204-6029-8 .
  • Ergativity in Caucasian Languages. In: Actes du 6e Congrès de l'association linguistique du nord-est. Université de Montréal, Montréal 1976, pp. 1-57.
  • Fundamental problems in phonetics . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1977.
  • Observations on the recent history of vowel classification. In: RE Asher, EJA Henderson (Ed.): Towards a history of phonetics . Edinburgh Press, Edinburgh 1981, ISBN 0-85224-450-9 .
  • Marking and frequency in the English verb. In: Language form and linguistic variation. (= current issues in linguistic theory; Volume 15, Ed. EFK Koerner ). Benjamin, Amsterdam 1982, pp. 11-27.
  • Notes on the phonetics of Nias. In: R. McGinn (Ed.): Studies in Austronesian linguistics . Ohio University Press, Athens 1988, pp. 151-172.
  • A practical introduction to phonetics . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1988, ISBN 0-19-824217-4 .
  • Functional load and diachronic phonology. In: Y. Tobin (Ed.): The Prague School and its legacy . Benjamin, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-272-1532-4 , pp. 3-19.
  • The classification of Caucasian languages. In: S. Lamb et al. (Ed.): Sprung from some common source . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1991, ISBN 0-8047-1897-0 , pp. 232-268.
  • Caucasian phonetics and general phonetics. In: C. Paris (Ed.): Caucasologie et mythologie comparé. Actes colloque international du CNRS, IVe Colloque de Caucasologie . Peeters, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-87723-042-2 , pp. 193-216.
  • Sixty years in linguistics. In: EFK Koerner (Ed.): First person singular III, autobiographies by North American scholars in the language science . Benjamin, Amsterdam 1998, ISBN 1-55619-632-6 , pp. 3-38.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Applied Linguistics (PDF file)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / fds.oup.com
  2. ^ A b Margie S. Berns (Ed.): Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Elsevier, Oxford 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Catford, John Cunnison
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Catford, John C .; Catford, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish phonetician
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2009
Place of death Seattle , Washington , USA