Dell Hymes

Affiliations:

Anthropology

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Area:

Anthropological Linguistics, Communicative Competence, Sociolinguistics, History of Linguistics, Folklore

Website:

http://www.virginia.edu/anthropology/dhymes.html

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"Dell Hymes"

Bio:

June 7, 1927, Portland, Oregon - November 13, 2009, Charlottesville, Virginia. B.A. Reed 1950. Ph.D. Indiana University 1955. His dissertation was a grammar of Kathlamet, previously known primarily from Franz Boas’s work at the end of the 19th century. He completed it in one year, productivity that was characteristic of him. He was 5 years at Harvard, 5 at UC Berkeley, Penn 1965-197?, U. Virginia.

Cross-listing: LinguisTree - Anthropology Tree