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 on the languages of the Pacific Northwest, and he was among the first to call the fourth subfield of anthropology linguistic anthropology rather than anthropological linguistics, drawing attention to its grounding in anthropology. In 1972 he founded the journal Language in Society and served as its editor for 22 years.
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RoleLinguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist 1 Dell Hymes
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Hymes conducted extensive fieldwork on Wasco-Wishram and other Chinookan languages of the Pacific Northwest, work that grounded his ethnopoetics and ethnography of communication.
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Ellis's task-based language teaching framework draws on Hymes's theory of communicative competence.
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June 7, 1927, in Portland, Oregon, November 13, 2009, in Charlottesville, Virginia
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June 7, 1927, in Portland, Oregon, November 13, 2009, in Charlottesville, Virginia
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was a linguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist who established disciplinary foundations for the comparative, ethnographic study of language use.
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June 7, 1927, in Portland, Oregon, November 13, 2009, in Charlottesville, Virginia
Lead sentence, death year in parenthetical
June 7, 1927, in Portland, Oregon, November 13, 2009, in Charlottesville, Virginia
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