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Publication details [#5037]

Hymes, Dell H. 1974. Ways of speaking. In Bauman, Richard and Joel Sherzer, eds. Explorations in the ethnography of speaking. Cambridge University Press. pp. 433–451.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative style | ethnography | social context

Annotation

H. argues that a speech community can be viewed as comprising a set of speech styles. More is said to enter into a speech style than is usually identified linguistically: it requires an ethnographic approach.

Translations

Hymes, Dell H. 1979. Über Sprechweisen. In Hymes, Dell H., ed. Soziolinguistik: Zur Ethnographie der Kommunikation. Suhrkamp. pp. 166–192.