On the Margins of Pacific Linguistics: P. A. Lanyon-Orgill
Autor: | Ross G. Clark |
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Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Zdroj: | Language & History. 54:164-177 |
ISSN: | 1759-7544 1759-7536 |
DOI: | 10.1179/175975311x13134155635437 |
Popis: | The career of P. A. Lanyon-Orgill (1924–2002) is outlined, providing an illustration of an institutional 'outsider', who, nevertheless, in the mid-twentieth century made his name quite well known among Pacific-area linguists, through a combination of derivative publication with fictive enhancement both of his own scholarly persona and of the data he presented. His changing reputation and his significance to Pacific linguistics are discussed, including the exposure, in the 1980s, of his falsification of alleged eighteenth-century manuscripts, and the realization that fraudulent elements were present in his work from the very beginning. His career is summarized from his never completed university degree, through his earning a living as a schoolmaster while contributing his research on Oceanic and Papuan linguistics to mainstream journals, to editing his own journal and publishing a number of monographs that are still in use. That his name has not vanished from the record is explained, in part, becau... |
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