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John Rupert Firth

Overview

English linguist (1890-1960)

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• Contextualism
• Order of the British Empire
• Bronisław Malinowski
• Phoneme
• Semitic languages
• Berber languages
• World War I
• University of London
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• Winfried Nöth

Place in the tradition

Part of Structuralism.

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