Dell Hathaway Hymes

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Dell Hathaway Hymes was an influential American linguist, anthropologist, and folklorist best known for founding the field of ethnography of communication and advancing sociolinguistics.

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instanceOf anthropologist
human
linguist
university teacher
academicDegree PhD in linguistics
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1927-06-07
dateOfDeath 2009-11-13
educatedAt Indiana University Bloomington NERFINISHED
Reed College NERFINISHED
employer Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia NERFINISHED
familyName Hymes NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork anthropology
ethnography of communication
ethnopoetics
folklore studies
linguistics
sociolinguistics
givenName Dell NERFINISHED
hasAcademicDiscipline anthropological linguistics
linguistic anthropology
influenced linguistic anthropology as a discipline
sociolinguistics as a discipline
knownFor advancing sociolinguistics
contributions to ethnopoetics
developing the SPEAKING model of communicative events
founding the field of ethnography of communication
work on communicative competence
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf American Anthropological Association NERFINISHED
Linguistic Society of America NERFINISHED
name Dell Hathaway Hymes NERFINISHED
nativeLanguage English
notableWork Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality NERFINISHED
Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach NERFINISHED
Language in Culture and Society NERFINISHED
Toward Ethnographies of Communication NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Portland, Oregon, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfBurial Charlottesville, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Charlottesville, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED
positionHeld Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia
sexOrGender male

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