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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Dell Hymes died (13/11/2009)
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:18:46 +1300
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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.