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Publication details [#12441]

Hymes, Dell H. 1997. The Scope of Sociolinguistics. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 12–22.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence | competence vs. performance | linguistic competence | social context | sociolinguistics

Reprint of

Hymes, Dell H. 1974. Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach. Tavistock Publications.

Annotation

It is argued that sociolinguistics should broaden its object of inquiry into communicative competence (and not Chomskyan linguistic competence).