The Scope of Sociolinguistics Hymes, Dell
International journal of the sociology of language,
05/2020, Letnik:
2020, Številka:
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As sociolinguistics continued to develop in the 1970s, members of the Council’s Committee on Sociolinguistics (1963–1979) reflected on the direction and intellectual impact of this emergent ...discipline. In this 1972 article, Dell Hymes, cochairman of the committee, describes several orientations toward the field among its practitioners, and argues for what he regarded as the most ambitious: a “socially constituted linguistics.” By this, Hymes meant a sociolinguistics that challenges linguistics’ core theoretical starting points of linguistic structure and grammar with a focus on the social meaning and functions of language in context. In relation to our “Sociolinguistic Frontiers” series, Hymes presciently argues that ultimately the field must address how inequality and language intersect, going “beyond means of speech and types of speech community to a concern with persons and social structure.”
Sociolinguistic debates around the definitions and significance of “pidgin” and “creole” languages were increasing in the 1960s and the SSRC’s Committee on Sociolinguistics played a role in ...cultivating these discussions. This 1968 report by Dell Hymes summarizes issues raised at a conference convened by the Council at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, to better understand the historical development, the grammatical and lexical evolutions, and the social uses of pidgin and creole languages. Though he highlights how social science can better inform research on pidginization and creolization, Hymes identifies knowledge gaps, among them the nature of the relationship between these languages and national identity, and more broadly the lack of historical and social scientific knowledge of this topic.
Anthropology and linguistics, as historically developing disciplines, have had partly separate roots and traditions. In particular settings and in general, the two disciplines have partly shared, ...partly differed in the nature of their materials, their favorite types of problem the personalities of their dominant figures, their relations with other disciplines and intellectual current. The two disciplines have also varied in their interrelation with each other and the society about them. Institutional arrangements have reflected the varying degrees of kinship, kithship, and separation. Such relationships themselves form a topic that is central to a history of linguistic anthropology yet marginal to a self-contained history of linguistics or anthropology as either would be conceived by most authors. There exists not only a subject matter for a history of linguistic anthropology, but also a definite need.
This collection of work addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to education, and the contribution that research in education makes to anthropology and linguistics.; The ...first section of the book pinpoints characteristics of anthropology that most make a difference to research in education. The second section describes the perspective that is needed if the study of language is to contribute adequately to problems of education and inequality. Finally, the third section takes up discoveries about narrative, which show that young people's narratives may have a depth of form and skill that has gone largely unrecognized.
This text is nearly 50 years old. It is the script of a 1963 radio talk that Hymes gave for a series on anthropology which was broadcast on the Voice of America. It was published in a VoA pamphlet, ...and we acknowledge their permission to reproduce from this. The script is clearly written but quite academic, although the publication carries no formal references. We reprint it here as it originally appeared (including with the generic masculine of 50 years ago). Adapted from the source document
Editorial Introduction Hymes, Dell
Language in society,
06/2010, Letnik:
39, Številka:
3
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Dell Hymes' introduction to the first issue of Language of Society is reprinted with permission, from Language in Society 1(1):1-14, 1972. Adapted from the source document.
Editorial Introduction Hymes, Dell
Language in society,
06/2010, Letnik:
39, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Dell Hymes' introduction to the first issue of Language of Society is reprinted with permission, from Language in Society 1(1):1-14, 1972. Adapted from the source document
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