Sociolinguistics is conceived here as a fundamental critical perspective on the whole of the study of language. The scientific problems within present linguistics, the book contends, combine with social problems of the society in which linguists participate to press linguistics to discover ethnographic foundations. The work of providing such foundations largely remains to be done. Working out the implications of these three principles requires a new mode of description of linguistic features and relationships, a mode which can treat the verbal means of a community as a part of its organization of communicative means.
In Part One, Dell Hymes indicates the place of linguistic inquiry as part of an inquiry into communicable conduct in general. Part Two demonstrates the mutual relation between linguistics and other disciplines that contribute to the common larger field—sociology, social anthropology, education, folklore, and poetics are discussed. In Part Three the author argues that problems within linguistic inquiry suggest social foundations of linguistics deeper than presently assumed, such that social meaning and stylistic function must be taken into account systematically, and social life seen as a source of the organization of linguistic means.
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The term "ethnography of communication" is intended to indicate the necessary scope, and to encourage the doing, of studies ethnographic in basis, and communicative in the range and kind of patterned complexity with which they deal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contrastive relevance, mock promise, sociolinguistic description, communicative conduct, mock threat, reciprocal interpretation, stylistic function, ordinary grammar, reflexive interpretation, communicative events Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kenneth Burke, United States, John Gumperz, John Duck, New Guinea, New York City, University of Texas, American English, Coral Gardens, Harvey Sacks, Queen Victoria, Roman Jakobson, Sydney Lamb New!
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The term "ethnography of communication" is intended to indicate the necessary scope, and to encourage the doing, of studies ethnographic in basis, and communicative in the range and kind of patterned complexity with which they deal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contrastive relevance, mock promise, sociolinguistic description, communicative conduct, mock threat, reciprocal interpretation, stylistic function, ordinary grammar, reflexive interpretation, communicative events Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kenneth Burke, United States, John Gumperz, John Duck, New Guinea, New York City, University of Texas, American English, Coral Gardens, Harvey Sacks, Queen Victoria, Roman Jakobson, Sydney Lamb New!
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- International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An ethnographic approach (International Behavioural and Social Sciences Classics from the Tavistock Press, 6) by Dell Hymes in Front Matter, page 4, and page 12
- Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien on page 150, and Back Matter
- Style in Language by Thomas A. Sebeok in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Lord of the Rings (3 Volumes) by J. R. R. Tolkien on page 150, and Back Matter
- J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien on page 150, and Back Matter
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