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Publication details [#5036]

Hymes, Dell H. 1974. Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach. Tavistock Publications. x + 248 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
culture | ethnography of speaking | human communication | linguistics | social context | sociolinguistics

Annotation

General outline of H's view of sociolinguistics centered around the assumptions that there is a mode of organization of language that is part of the organization of communicative conduct in a community, that therefore the study of language is a multidisciplinary field, and that these ideas lead one to reconsider the bases of linguistics itself.

Reviewed by

LePage, R.B. 1979. Review of $Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach.

Reprints

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.