Dell Hymes
Anthropologist, Author
1927 – 2009
Who was Dell Hymes?
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. In 1972 Hymes founded the journal Language in Society and served as its editor for 22 years.
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- Born
- Jun 7, 1927
Portland - Also known as
- Dell H Hymes
- Dell H. Hymes
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, Reed College
Anthropology
( - 1950) - Literature
- PhD, Indiana University Bloomington
Linguistic anthropology
( - 1955)
- Bachelor's degree, Reed College
- Employment
- University of Pennsylvania
- Lived in
- Portland
(1927/06/07 - ) - Charlottesville
(1987 - 2009/11/13)
- Portland
- Died
- Nov 13, 2009
Charlottesville
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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