I am a Linguist
Biographical note
R. M. W. (Bob) Dixon, PhD (London), DLitt (ANU), FBA has taught at University College London, Harvard University and the Australian National University, and is currently Adjunct Professor within the Cairns Institute at James Cook University in tropical North Queensland, Australia. He is the author of 20 scholarly monographs and 125 papers on linguistics (and editor or co-editor of 20 more volumes).
Readership
Graduate and undergraduate students of linguistics and anthropology, all types of linguists and anthropologists, aficionados of blues and gospel music, a wide range of educated general readers
Reviews
Praise for R.W.M. Dixon’s I am a Linguist
“As a student of language I cannot commend his stance too highly. I urge younger
linguists in particular, to mark all he says about their subject, to empathise with all his triumphs
of analysis, and find inspiration in his example.”
Peter Matthews, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
“The author’s descriptions of his field trip experiences are superb and the story of his musical pursuits is downright moving. He has done for ‘threatened music’ the same thing that he has done for threatened languages.” Reader’s report
“As a student of language I cannot commend his stance too highly. I urge younger
linguists in particular, to mark all he says about their subject, to empathise with all his triumphs
of analysis, and find inspiration in his example.”
Peter Matthews, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
“The author’s descriptions of his field trip experiences are superb and the story of his musical pursuits is downright moving. He has done for ‘threatened music’ the same thing that he has done for threatened languages.” Reader’s report
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The story of extended linguistic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia, Fiji and Amazonia, linked to theoretical study of the nature of human language, also throwing in detective novels, science fiction stories and blues and gospel discography. Interspersed with frank assessment of the role of ...
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