{"id":1754,"date":"2013-07-19T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T18:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2018-12-07T11:39:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:39:58","slug":"mcmillan-james-b-1907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"McMILLAN, JAMES BENJAMIN, 1907-1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linguist; university professor. Born&#8211; August 24, 1907, Talladega, Ala. Parents&#8211; William C. and Celeste (Miller) McMillan. Married&#8211; Antoinette Brannon, August 29, 1931. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Davidson College, 1925-1926; B.S., Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1929; M.A., University of North Carolina, 1930; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1946; Johns Hopkins, Columbia University.\u00a0Professor of English linguistics at\u00a0the\u00a0University of Alabama, 1931-1975.\u00a0 Managing editor, Alabama Review, 1947-1963; of Publications of the American Dialect Society, 1964; member, editorial board, American Speech, National University Extension News, College Composition and Communication, Dictionary of American Regional English, Abstracts of English Studies and Harcourt-Brace School Dictionary.\u00a0 Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Alabama Press, 1945-62. The James B. McMillan Building on the University of Alabama Campus was named in his honor.\u00a0 Died August 28, 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong> Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English. Coral Gables, Fla.; University of Miama Press, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Communicative Arts. Birmingham, Ala.; Colonial Press, 1961.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing and Thinking. Boston; Houghton, 1952.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dialects in Culture; &#8230; University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Linguist; university professor. Born&#8211; August 24, 1907, Talladega, Ala. Parents&#8211; William C. and Celeste (Miller) McMillan. Married&#8211; Antoinette Brannon, August 29, 1931. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Davidson College, 1925-1926; B.S., Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1929; M.A., University of North Carolina, 1930; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1946; Johns Hopkins, Columbia University.\u00a0Professor of English linguistics at\u00a0the\u00a0University of Alabama, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9137,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/9137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}