Jean Aitchison

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Jean Aitchison is affiliated with the following schools: University of Cambridge, Radcliffe College, London School of Economics, Open University, University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Jean Margaret Aitchison is a Professor Emerita of Language and Communication in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Her main areas of interest include socio-historical linguistics; language and the mind; and language and the media.

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Jean Aitchison's Published Works

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Language and the Internet (2002) (1097)
Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon (1987) (697)
Language Change: Progress or Decay? (1981) (561)
Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual (2000) (286)
Linguistics : an introduction (1999) (173)
The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution (1996) (141)
The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics (1999) (136)
Thesaurus construction: a practical manual (1972) (95)
New media language (2004) (69)
The Thesaurus: A Historical Viewpoint, with a Look to the Future (2004) (56)
Teach Yourself Linguistics (1987) (52)
Lexical storage and retrieval: a developing skill? (1981) (41)
Natural Phonology or Natural Memory? the Interaction Between Phonological Processes and Recall Mechanisms (1981) (35)
The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words - The 1996 BBC Reith Lectures (1997) (33)
Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Change (2008) (30)
A Classification as a Source for a Thesaurus: the bibliographic Classification of H. E. Bliss as a Source of Thesaurus Terms and Structure (1986) (29)
Bad Birds and Better Birds: Prototype Theories (1994) (26)
THE THESAUROFACET: A MULTIPURPOSE RETRIEVAL LANGUAGE TOOL (1970) (24)
Butler English: A Minimal Pidgin? (1986) (22)
Misunderstandings about language: A historical overview (2001) (19)
Thesaurofacet : a thesaurus & faceted classification for engineering & related subjects (1969) (18)
Tadpoles, cuckoos, and multiple births: Language contact and models of change (1995) (17)
Newspaper Language (2006) (16)
THE ORDER OF WORD ORDER CHANGE (1979) (15)
Learning Language the Hard Way (1980) (14)
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (1987) (13)
The Language lifegame: Prediction, Explanation and linguistic change (1986) (13)
A Glossary of Language and Mind (2003) (11)
The Word Weavers: Newshounds and Wordsmiths (2007) (10)
Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought (review) (2001) (10)
Some idiosyncratic strategies utilized by a chronic Broca’s aphasic (1979) (10)
Good Birds, Better Birds and Amazing Birds: The Development of Prototypes (1992) (9)
Reproductive furniture and extinguished professors (1987) (9)
Unesco thesaurus : a structured list of descriptors for indexing and retrieving literature in the fields of education, science, social science, culture, and communication (1977) (9)
New Guinea and neighboring areas : a sociolinguistic laboratory (1980) (9)
Integration of thesauri in the social sciences (1981) (9)
How to Handle Wimps: Incorporating New Lexical Items as an Adult (1995) (8)
Unhappiness about not unhappy people (1979) (8)
Spaghetti junctions and recurrent routes:: Some preferred pathways in language evolution (1989) (8)
Comprar Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon | Jean Aitchison | 9780631232445 | Wiley (2008) (8)
Polysemy and bleaching (2003) (7)
Aitchison's Linguistics (2010) (7)
Building the web (1996) (6)
Introducing Language and Mind (1992) (6)
Word order universals: John A. Hawkins, (Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Structure Series.) Academic Press, New York, London, Sydney, 1983 (1986) (6)
On roots of language (1983) (6)
Cognitive clouds and semantic shadows (1985) (6)
All Paths Lead to the Mental Lexicon (1988) (6)
The articulate mammal : an introduction to psycholinguistics [Aitchison, 1998] (1998) (5)
The rhinoceros’s problem: the need to categorize (2004) (5)
The Chinese Maritime Customs Service in the transition from the Ch'ing to the nationalist era : an examination of the relationship between a Western-style fiscal institution and Chinese government in the period before the Manchurian incident (1983) (5)
Diachrony vs Synchrony: The Complementary Evolution of Two (Ir)reconcilable Dimensions (2012) (5)
Chimps, children and creoles: the need for caution (1995) (5)
‘I deny that I’m incapable of working all night’: Divergence of negative structures in British and Indian English (1985) (4)
Headlines and Deadlines: Changing Newspaper Language (2006) (4)
Language Change (2012) (4)
Motives for Language Change: Metaphors, models and language change (2003) (4)
Birds, bees, and switches: psycholinguistic issues 1967–2017 (1993) (4)
A web of worries (1996) (4)
Car Murder Hubby Caged – and other murderous headlines (2000) (4)
Disasters, devastation and polysemy (2010) (3)
Predestinate Grooves: Is There a Preordained Language “Program”? (1994) (3)
Małgorzata Fabiszak (ed.). Language and Meaning: Cognitive and Functional Perspectives. (2007) (3)
Relative clauses in Tok Pisin: Is there a natural pathway? (1992) (3)
Lifting the veil: Uncovering language origin (2008) (3)
Small steps or large leaps? Undergeneralization and overgeneralization in creole acquisition (1996) (3)
The missing link: the role of the lexicon (1990) (3)
Efficiency and complexity in grammars (review) (2008) (2)
Psycholinguistics: Introductory Perspectives@@@The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics (1980) (2)
International thesaurus of refugee terminology (1989) (2)
The language web: A world-wide web (1996) (2)
The Gobbledygook Syndrome (1986) (2)
Worrying about English (1991) (2)
The language web: A web of deceit (1996) (1)
The Language lifegame (1986) (1)
Language Joyriding: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 16 November 1993 (1994) (1)
Language change: progress or decay?: Development and breakdown (2000) (1)
Section F Structure and relationships (2003) (1)
Assessing Language Status: Some Problems (1992) (1)
Review: Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Antonymy, Synonymy and Other Paradigms (2005) (1)
Section E Specificity and compound terms (2003) (1)
Absolute Disasters: The Problems of Layering (2005) (1)
The birth of rules (2001) (1)
Abnormal Syntactic Comprehension Utilized by a Patient With Chronic Broca's Aphasia: Implications for Treatment (1979) (1)
A Blueprint In The Brain (2006) (1)
The language web: A web of words (1996) (1)
A Dictionary of the Internet (2002) (0)
Repairing the patterns (2000) (0)
Language Change: Catching on and taking off (2012) (0)
Diachronica: International Journal for Historical Linguistics , Vol. I, 1985. (1986) (0)
Review: Eighteenth‐Century English (2003) (0)
Language Change: The wheels of language (2012) (0)
Language Change: Symbols and technical terms (2000) (0)
Why do languages change? (review) (2012) (0)
The White Elephant Problem (2011) (0)
Language Change: The reason why (2012) (0)
Review: Butler English: Form and Function (2002) (0)
Bibliography of Mono-And Multilingual Vocabularies, Thesauri, Subject Headings and Classification Schemes in the Social Sciences (1983) (0)
The language web: Notes (1996) (0)
Recent developments in language origin (2004) (0)
Section G Auxiliary retrieval devices (2003) (0)
Language Change: Language death (2012) (0)
Language Change: Repairing the patterns (2012) (0)
Nancy N. Dorian (ed.), Investigating obsolescence: studies in language contraction and death . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv + 445. (1991) (0)
Grandmama’s teeth Is there biological evidence for innate language capacity? (2007) (0)
Section H Thesaurus displays (2003) (0)
The rhinoceros’s problem (2004) (0)
Absolute disasters and other bleached words (2000) (0)
Thomas M. Steinfatt, Human communication: an interpersonal introduction . Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Pp. 301. Thomas M. Steinfatt, Readings in human communication: an interpersonal introduction . Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Pp. 409. (1979) (0)
An introduction to cognitive linguistics (1999) (0)
SUMMARY OF SESSION 5: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (1995) (0)
Language change: progress or decay?: Progress or decay? (2000) (0)
Language Change: Charting the changes (2012) (0)
The seeds of speech (book review) (1998) (0)
Book Reviews and Notices (1989) (0)
Collecting up clues (2000) (0)
Language change: progress or decay?: Doing what comes naturally (2000) (0)
Language Change: Preface (2012) (0)
Language Change: Doing what comes naturally (2012) (0)
Language change: progress or decay?: The Mad Hatter's tea-party (2000) (0)
Animals That Try to Talk (2011) (0)
Language Change: Spreading the word (2012) (0)
Language Change: Spinning away (2012) (0)
Language Change: Optional questions (2012) (0)
Publications Received (1968) (0)
Language change: progress or decay?: Spinning away (2000) (0)
McClure (ed.), Ayrshire in the Age of Improvement (2004) (0)
Alan H. Sommerstein, The sound pattern of ancient Greek . (Publications of the Philological Society, XXIII.) Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973. Pp. viii + 215. (1975) (0)
Language Change: The ever-whirling wheel (2012) (0)
Language Change: Notes and suggestions for further reading (2012) (0)
Language change: progress or decay?: The reason why (2000) (0)
Language Change: Pushing and pulling (2012) (0)
Progress or decay (2012) (0)
Language change: progress or decay?: Language birth (2000) (0)
Language Change: Collecting up clues (2012) (0)
A Study of the Servant Class in South Ayrshire, 1750-1914 (1998) (0)
Language change: progress or decay?: The wheels of language (2000) (0)
Chimps, children and creoles (1995) (0)
The ever-whirling wheel (2000) (0)
The Cheshire Cat’s Grin (2011) (0)
Book Review: Missing the Meaning? A Cognitive Neuropsychological Study of the Processing of Words by an Aphasic Patient (1991) (0)
ReviewA child's learning of english, Paul Fletcher (Ed.), Basil Blackwell, Oxford (1985), 242 pp. (1988) (0)
Section K Thesaurus management (2003) (0)
Human evolution, language and mind: A psychological and archaeological inquiry By William Noble and Iain Davidson (review) (2015) (0)
The Evolution And Role Of Newspapers (2011) (0)
Language change: progress or decay?: Caught in the web (2000) (0)
Language Change: Acknowledgments (2012) (0)
Language change: progress or decay?: Notes and suggestions for further reading (2000) (0)
Neilson V. Smith, The Acquisition of Phonology: A Case Study . (Pp. xi + 270. Cambridge University Press, 1973.) (1974) (0)
Language Change: Conflicting loyalties (2012) (0)
Michael Garman, Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xx+512. (1993) (0)
MINDS, MODULES AND EVOLUTION (1995) (0)
Free or Ensnared? The Hidden Nets of Language (2021) (0)
Landscape, gardens and the space between the buildings (1998) (0)
Language Change: Caught in the web (2012) (0)
JARGON: ITS USES AND ABUSES. Walter Nash. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. Pp. x + 214. $24.95 cloth. (1995) (0)
Glossary of English grammar (2006) (0)
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The Great Automatic Grammatizator (2011) (0)
Section I Multilingual thesauri (2003) (0)
Section L Thesaurus reconciliation and integration (2003) (0)
Puzzling It out (2011) (0)
Language change: progress or decay?: Catching on and taking off (2000) (0)

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