Martin Joos

[2] The War Department awarded him a Distinguished Service citation in recognition of his work developing communication systems.He graduated with a bachelor's in electrical engineering, and applied this with linguistics while serving with Signal Security Agency of the United States of America doing crypt-analyses.Among Joos's books on linguistics is The Five Clocks (1962), which introduced influential discussions of style, register, and style-shifting, noting systematic characteristics in the shifts in speech between high and low formality settings.[5] Joos's 1958 book, Readings in Linguistics Volume 1 collected important papers on the nature of phonetics and phonology produced during the prior decades, since about 1930.Joos's collection helped clarify the debate at the time by bringing together key works on both sides.
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