John Catford
Biographic Data
| ID | 1730730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Catford |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Catford |
| SIGNATURE | CATFORD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Health Promotion International: Four decades of impact
From the first issue in May 1986, Health Promotion International (HPI) (Health Promotion until 1990) pursued an agenda of advocacy and action for healthy public policy and health equity. At the time of the journal’s launch, public health had become oriented toward medicalized and behavioural approaches, with individualized health education the dominant intervention. In HPI’s first editorial, then Director General of the World Health Organization …
Healthy dying: Time for health promotion to get serious
Ottawa 1986: Back to the future
On the classification of stop consonants (1939)
The reprinted text entitled ‘On the classification of stop consonants’ was written by J. C. Catford, in original phonetic transcription, for the 1939 January–March issue (vol. 65) of Le Maître Phonétique and is an example of the article de fond type of contribution. J. C. (Ian) Catford (1917–2009) studied phonetics with Daniel Jones, Pierre Fouché and Marguerite Durand. He founded the School of Applied Linguistics in Edinburgh in the early 1950s.…
On Rs, rhotacism and paleophony
In his R-tickle, William Barry (Barry 1997: 35) invites others who may have pondered along similar lines 'to offer additional complementary or alternative views'. In somewhat belatedly accepting his invitation, I would like to make some remarks on trills, on 'molar r', and on rhotacism, followed by some thoughts on the question of the historical primacy of trill, at least within Indo-European
Language Learning and the Applied Linguistics: A Historical Sketch
This article reviews the history of applied linguistics together with the history of the journal Language Learning, indicating the journal's particular place in that larger history and honoring its 50th anniversary. I adopt a chronological perspective, starting from antiquity but focusing on developments in Europe and North America in the later 19th and 20th centuries. I offer evidence that from the late 1940s onward Language Learning played a di…
Developing leadership for health: Our biggest blindspot
Moving into the next decade—and a new dimension?
John Catford, Lawrence St Leger; Moving into the next decade—and a new dimension?, Health Promotion International, Volume 11, Issue 1, 1 March 1996, Pages
Health promotion in the market place: Constraints and opportunities
An emerging trend internationally is for health promo tion services to be privatised and organised through a division of ‘purchaser’ and ‘provider’ functions. This paper examines the constraints and opportunities for health promotion in the market place through a discus sion often ‘vital signs’ drawing on British experience where appropriate. If the market is not closely managed there are considerable concerns that health inequalities could incre…
The mass media is dead: Long live the multimedia
Promoting emotional health and family relationships—an even greater challenge for the 1990s
‘What takes place in the intimate partnership of marriage and the family is so crucial to our sense of identity, wellbeing and health, it seems extraordinary we do so little to protect and nurture it’
Auditing health promotion: What are the vital signs of quality?
Quit and win Wales: An evaluation of the 1990 pilot contest
Institute for Health Promotion, Ffynnon las, Ty Glas Avenue, Llanishen, Cardiff CF4 5DZ Wales, UK J Catford Abstract Objective To assess the effectiveness of the 1990 pilot Quit and Win contest held in South East Wales (UK) in reducing smoking prevalence. Methods Follow-up surveys of the 687 entrants were conducted after four months and one year through postal self completion questionnaires. The question naires covered demographic background, smo…
Maintaining evaluation designs in long term community based health promotion programmes: Heartbeat Wales case study
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To examine the difficulties of developing and maintaining outcome evaluation designs in long term, community based health promotion programmes. DESIGN--Semistructured interviews of health promotion managers. SETTING--Wales and two reference health regions in England. PARTICIPANTS--Nine health promotion managers in Wales and 18 in England. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--Information on selected heart health promotion activity under…
Health promoter's survival kit: Learn to be smart and quick
Primary environmental care: An ecological strategy for health
Networking for the nineties
Strategic intent: Will Alice win the Olympics?
Evaluation in health education. A review of progress, possibilities, and problems
In the past, the urgency of immediate health problems, the practical orientation of health educators, and the complex nature of evaluation in health education have usually meant that interventions were established on the basis of limited research, and with little or no consideration given to the need to evaluate. Progress in evaluation has been painfully slow
Glottal consonants … another view
I am in favor of letting [h] and [ɦ] stay where they are as glottal fricatives—honorary glottal fricatives, if you like! What the preceding paper says about them is true—there tends to be noticeable glottal turbulence with [h] only occasionally, particularly before open [a]-type vowels (or after them, in languages with final [h]'s). The voiced counterpart is perhaps more likely to have some turbulent glottal flow, being, in fact breathy or whispe…
A proposal concerning central vowels
The 1989 Kiel Convention made an unprincipled decision to ignore the basis of the Cardinal Vowel system, which specifies four ‘heights’ and three ‘horizontal’ locations for vowels, by ignoring close-mid and open-mid central vowels and proposing only two symbols for non-close central vowels, viz. [ə, ө]
Letter from the Chairman of the Board
Understanding childrens' health behaviour: The implications for health promotion for young people
Language Learning is Forty Years Old
The Welsh Heart Programme evaluation strategy: Progress, plans and possibilities
The Welsh Heart Programme (Heartbeat Wales) is a national demonstration project established in 1985 to promote good health amongst the three million population of Wales, and specifically to reduce the risks of cardiovascular disease on a total population basis. The evaluation of community-based health promotion programmes creates major challenges for researchers. This paper describes the progress achieved, current plans and future possibilities t…
Mountain of Tongues: The Languages of the Caucasus
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Understanding childrens' health behaviour: The implications for health promotion for young people
Language and Person Studies in Language Behavior1
Starting with an interest in basic psychological processes, whose complexity is matched only by the difficulty of their study, we developed what seemed to us to be more appropriate research strategies-the so-called transpositional research-and forged a link between the acquisition of native-like second language pronunciation ability and certain personality constructs, such as empathy. From there we pursued over the years a line of inquiry that st…
Psychological Variables and Ability to Pronounce a Second Language
The following study tested the hypothesis that the ability to speak a second language authentically or like a native speaker was related to an individual's sensitivity to cues in interpersonal situations, his empathic capacity. A test of empathy consisted of silent film clips shown at various speeds; subjects were asked to indicate each change in facial expression they observed. A test group of 28 University students took this and additional cont…
On Rs, rhotacism and paleophony
In his R-tickle, William Barry (Barry 1997: 35) invites others who may have pondered along similar lines 'to offer additional complementary or alternative views'. In somewhat belatedly accepting his invitation, I would like to make some remarks on trills, on 'molar r', and on rhotacism, followed by some thoughts on the question of the historical primacy of trill, at least within Indo-European
Maintaining evaluation designs in long term community based health promotion programmes: Heartbeat Wales case study
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To examine the difficulties of developing and maintaining outcome evaluation designs in long term, community based health promotion programmes. DESIGN--Semistructured interviews of health promotion managers. SETTING--Wales and two reference health regions in England. PARTICIPANTS--Nine health promotion managers in Wales and 18 in England. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--Information on selected heart health promotion activity under…
Language Learning and the Applied Linguistics: A Historical Sketch
This article reviews the history of applied linguistics together with the history of the journal Language Learning, indicating the journal's particular place in that larger history and honoring its 50th anniversary. I adopt a chronological perspective, starting from antiquity but focusing on developments in Europe and North America in the later 19th and 20th centuries. I offer evidence that from the late 1940s onward Language Learning played a di…
Psychological Variables and Ability to Pronounce a Second Language
The following study tested the hypothesis that the ability to speak a second language authentically or like a native speaker was related to an individual's sensitivity to cues in interpersonal situations, his empathic capacity. A test of empathy consisted of silent film clips shown at various speeds; subjects were asked to indicate each change in facial expression they observed. A test group of 28 University students took this and additional cont…
Language and Person Studies in Language Behavior1
Starting with an interest in basic psychological processes, whose complexity is matched only by the difficulty of their study, we developed what seemed to us to be more appropriate research strategies-the so-called transpositional research-and forged a link between the acquisition of native-like second language pronunciation ability and certain personality constructs, such as empathy. From there we pursued over the years a line of inquiry that st…
Mountain of Tongues: The Languages of the Caucasus
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Insects Are Free: Reflections on Meaning in Linguistics
The Welsh Heart Programme evaluation strategy: Progress, plans and possibilities
The Welsh Heart Programme (Heartbeat Wales) is a national demonstration project established in 1985 to promote good health amongst the three million population of Wales, and specifically to reduce the risks of cardiovascular disease on a total population basis. The evaluation of community-based health promotion programmes creates major challenges for researchers. This paper describes the progress achieved, current plans and future possibilities t…
Language Learning is Forty Years Old
Understanding childrens' health behaviour: The implications for health promotion for young people
Networking for the nineties
Strategic intent: Will Alice win the Olympics?
Evaluation in health education. A review of progress, possibilities, and problems
In the past, the urgency of immediate health problems, the practical orientation of health educators, and the complex nature of evaluation in health education have usually meant that interventions were established on the basis of limited research, and with little or no consideration given to the need to evaluate. Progress in evaluation has been painfully slow
Glottal consonants … another view
I am in favor of letting [h] and [ɦ] stay where they are as glottal fricatives—honorary glottal fricatives, if you like! What the preceding paper says about them is true—there tends to be noticeable glottal turbulence with [h] only occasionally, particularly before open [a]-type vowels (or after them, in languages with final [h]'s). The voiced counterpart is perhaps more likely to have some turbulent glottal flow, being, in fact breathy or whispe…
A proposal concerning central vowels
The 1989 Kiel Convention made an unprincipled decision to ignore the basis of the Cardinal Vowel system, which specifies four ‘heights’ and three ‘horizontal’ locations for vowels, by ignoring close-mid and open-mid central vowels and proposing only two symbols for non-close central vowels, viz. [ə, ө]
Letter from the Chairman of the Board
Primary environmental care: An ecological strategy for health
Health promoter's survival kit: Learn to be smart and quick
Auditing health promotion: What are the vital signs of quality?
Quit and win Wales: An evaluation of the 1990 pilot contest
Institute for Health Promotion, Ffynnon las, Ty Glas Avenue, Llanishen, Cardiff CF4 5DZ Wales, UK J Catford Abstract Objective To assess the effectiveness of the 1990 pilot Quit and Win contest held in South East Wales (UK) in reducing smoking prevalence. Methods Follow-up surveys of the 687 entrants were conducted after four months and one year through postal self completion questionnaires. The question naires covered demographic background, smo…
Maintaining evaluation designs in long term community based health promotion programmes: Heartbeat Wales case study
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To examine the difficulties of developing and maintaining outcome evaluation designs in long term, community based health promotion programmes. DESIGN--Semistructured interviews of health promotion managers. SETTING--Wales and two reference health regions in England. PARTICIPANTS--Nine health promotion managers in Wales and 18 in England. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--Information on selected heart health promotion activity under…
Promoting emotional health and family relationships—an even greater challenge for the 1990s
‘What takes place in the intimate partnership of marriage and the family is so crucial to our sense of identity, wellbeing and health, it seems extraordinary we do so little to protect and nurture it’
Health promotion in the market place: Constraints and opportunities
An emerging trend internationally is for health promo tion services to be privatised and organised through a division of ‘purchaser’ and ‘provider’ functions. This paper examines the constraints and opportunities for health promotion in the market place through a discus sion often ‘vital signs’ drawing on British experience where appropriate. If the market is not closely managed there are considerable concerns that health inequalities could incre…
The mass media is dead: Long live the multimedia
Moving into the next decade—and a new dimension?
John Catford, Lawrence St Leger; Moving into the next decade—and a new dimension?, Health Promotion International, Volume 11, Issue 1, 1 March 1996, Pages
Developing leadership for health: Our biggest blindspot
Language Learning and the Applied Linguistics: A Historical Sketch
This article reviews the history of applied linguistics together with the history of the journal Language Learning, indicating the journal's particular place in that larger history and honoring its 50th anniversary. I adopt a chronological perspective, starting from antiquity but focusing on developments in Europe and North America in the later 19th and 20th centuries. I offer evidence that from the late 1940s onward Language Learning played a di…
On Rs, rhotacism and paleophony
In his R-tickle, William Barry (Barry 1997: 35) invites others who may have pondered along similar lines 'to offer additional complementary or alternative views'. In somewhat belatedly accepting his invitation, I would like to make some remarks on trills, on 'molar r', and on rhotacism, followed by some thoughts on the question of the historical primacy of trill, at least within Indo-European
Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Health promotion (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · School Health and Nursing Education (7 works)