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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
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
Roman Jakobson
American linguist
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
Friedrich Müller
Austrian linguist
Mario Pei
American linguist
Sydney M. Lamb
American linguist
Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Sir Thomas Francis Wade
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J.L. Austin
British philosopher
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Henry George Liddell
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