Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Dell Hymes died (13/11/2009) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:18:46 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:18:56 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="279a55b4f7a36b3b1754e724e3c882e3"; logging-data="2253268"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BaD+3/NtgwoDVssip5lL+4gr6twSHPWE=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:pTvJz0aLxB+l/nRMuKW/buFxgLM= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2112 American linguist (yes, a linguist!), born 1927. I'm sure I wrote a bit about him in the Linguistic Birthdays series (2018), but can't retrieve it now. He was involved in many different subject areas, but is best remembered for: - study of Chinookan languages; - "ethnopoetics" (especially of Native American cultures) - "linguistic anthropology", "ethnography of speaking" The last is how he defined his own approach, starting with the social context in which speaking takes place (something most descriptive linguists either ignored altogether or treated as marginal). Crystal mentions his "S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G" acronym (no, not really an acronym?-- sort of an acrostic mnemonic?) -- things to pay attention to when studying speaking: Setting/Scene Participants Ends Act sequence Key Instrumentalities Norms Genre More detail here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Hymes along with "Sexual harrassment allegations" (a first for this series, I think), and what looks like a malicious cacography in the first line of the following section.