John R. Firth

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Also Known As	John Rupert Firth
Born	June 17, 1890 • Keighley • England
Died	December 14, 1960 (aged 70) • England
Subjects Of Study	language • meaning

C.K. Ogden

British writer

Sayce, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1920; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Archibald H. Sayce

British language scholar

Michael Halliday

British linguist

Noam Chomsky

American linguist

Kenneth L. Pike

American linguist

Mikhail Bakhtin

Russian philosopher and literary critic

Roman Jakobson

American linguist

Ferdinand de Saussure

Swiss linguist

Friedrich Müller

Austrian linguist

Mario Pei

American linguist

Sydney M. Lamb

American linguist

Leonard Bloomfield

American linguist

Holger Pedersen

Danish linguist

Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay

Polish linguist

Eduard Hermann

German linguist

Lancelot Thomas Hogben

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Sir William Jones

British orientalist and jurist

Sir Thomas Francis Wade

British diplomat

J.L. Austin

British philosopher

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