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4 unusual facts about Dell Hymes


Alessandro Duranti

His dissertation at the University of Southern California provided a detailed ethnographic account of the role of traditional Samoan speechmaking in conflict management during the meetings of the village council (fono), which he analyzed following Dell Hymes' model of speech events.

Diane Goldstein

Her doctoral dissertation, supervised by Dell Hymes, wasd "Sharing In The One: An Ethnography Of Speaking In A Mystical Religious Community.

Kathlamet language

The most extensive records of the language were made by Franz Boas, and a grammar was documented in the dissertation of Dell Hymes.

SPEAKING

In sociolinguistics, SPEAKING or the SPEAKING model, is a model socio-linguistic study (represented as a mnemonic) developed by Dell Hymes.


Guild of Scholars of The Episcopal Church

The Guild was founded in 1945 and has included such eminent members as Cleanth Brooks, Brooks Otis, Henry Babcock Veatch, Frederick Pottle, W. H. Auden, Dell Hymes, Hyatt Waggoner and Richard W. Bailey.


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