Directions in Sociolinguistics the ethnography of communication

• Other Authors: Gumperz, John Joseph 1922- (Editor), Hymes, Dell H (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Basil Blackwell 1986
• Subjects: Sociolinguistics
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• Item Description: Includes indexes.
• Physical Description: x, 598 pages illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Bibliography: p. 555-581.
• ISBN: 0631149864; 0631149872

Hymes is one of the most important figures in sociolinguistics: a founding member of the sociolinguistics movement, the originator of the ethnography of communication, a pioneer in ethnopoetics, and a champion in linguistics for those who have been unvoiced in Western educational, anthropological and linguistic traditions. It is in this last set of concerns, where Hymes was an advocate, doing truly applied linguistic work, that we can see the coherence in his work. The repeated theme of Hymes' scholarship is his insistence that linguistic theory and practice account for the individual, the particular and the actual. In countering Chomskyan linguistics, in proposing the ethnography of communication, and in his ethnopoetic approach.