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Publication details [#5039]

Hymes, Dell H. 1979. Sapir, competence, voices. In Fillmore, Charles J., Daniel Kempler and William S.-Y. Wang, eds. Individual differences in language ability and language behavior. Academic Press. pp. 33–45.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

competence vs. performance | idiolect | linguistics | variability

Person as a subject

Sapir, E.

Annotation

A historical, a sociological and a 'poetic' note with respect to the fundamental importance of taking into account individual differences in the study of language and in linguistic theory.