Hymes, Dell H.

Contributed to

A Pattern of verbal irony in Chinookan
article 1987

Summary: Dell Hathaway Hymes was a linguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist who established disciplinary foundations for the comparative, ethnographic study of language use. His research focused upon the languages of the Pacific Northwest. He was one of the first to call the fourth subfield of anthropology "linguistic anthropology" instead of "anthropological linguistics". The terminological shift draws attention to the field's grounding in anthropology rather than in what, by that time, had already become an autonomous discipline (linguistics). In 1972 Hymes founded the journal Language in Society and served as its editor for 22 years. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][4][5][6]
Born: 1927-06-07 [2]
Birth Place: Portland [6]
Died: 2009-11-13 [2]
Death Place: Charlottesville [6]
Country: United States [2]
Language: English [3]
Occupation: anthropologist [6]; linguist [6]; university teacher [6]; sociologist [6]; folklorist [6]
Profession: Philologe [2]
Employer: Harvard University [6]; University of California, Berkeley [6]; University of Virginia [6]; University of Pennsylvania [6]
Educated at: Reed College [6]; Indiana University [6]
Country of Education: United States [6]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. National Library of Korea; 5. Danish Bibliographic Centre; 6. Wikidata

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