Hymes, Dell Hathaway /
Dell Hathaway Hymes (1927-2009) was a discipline builder at the intersection of linguistics and the social sciences. He was the founder and long-standing editor of the journal Language and Society and played a leading role in establishing linguistic anthropology as well as qualitative sociolinguisti...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Dell Hathaway Hymes (1927-2009) was a discipline builder at the intersection of linguistics and the social sciences. He was the founder and long-standing editor of the journal Language and Society and played a leading role in establishing linguistic anthropology as well as qualitative sociolinguistics. He served as president of the American Anthropological Association, the Linguistic Society of America, and the American Folklore Society. This entry explores Hymes's contributions to anthropology, linguistics, and other related fields. In particular, the entry examines how he engaged with the work of other influential linguists and social scientists such as Franz Boas, Noam Chomsky, Roman Jakobson, and Claude Lv̌i-Strauss, as well as his foundational role establishing topics such as ethnography of communication, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, ethnopoetics, communicative relativity, communicative competence, ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529748772 1529748771 9781526421036 1526421038 |