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| | Firth, John Rupert - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Firth, John Rupert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Whatever anyone said must be understood in the entire context of the utterance, including such nonlinguistic factors as the status and personal history of the speakers and the social character of the situation. |
 | | Firth described typical contexts of situation and ‘typical repetitive events in the social process’; for example, the occurrence of ready-made, socially prescribed utterances such as ‘How do you do?’ He also studied phonological features of speech such as stress, intonation, and nasalization, which, he emphasized, varied considerably in different languages. |
 | | Firth was educated at Leeds and spent several years in India, where he became professor of English at the University of the Punjab in Lahore, returning to England 1928. |
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