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Hymes, Dell H. 1966. Two types of linguistic relativity (with examples from Amerindian ethnography). In Bright, William O., ed. Sociolinguistics. Mouton. pp. 114–158.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnography | functions of language | linguistic relativity

Annotation

H. argues that in addition to a type of linguistic relativity associated with inference from linguistic data to other aspects of culture, there is a second type to be associated with inference from ethnographic data to functions of language.