Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication1

1964/12/01 by DELL HYMES, Dell Hymes · 10 citations
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Media, Communication, and Education #Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis #Social Representations and Identity

paper · pdf · doi:10.1525/aa.1964.66.suppl_3.02a00010

Abstract

T HE study of language as it engages human life has a fitful history. So at least it must seem from the ups and downs of technical study of such engagement by linguists, anthropologists, and sociologists, and from the recurrent calls for it to be taken up. More than a generation ago Sapir (1929:165) wrote in words with a quite modern ring:

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