Bøger af Dell Hymes

This collection of essays on the pidginization and creolization of language is taken from a conference at The University of the West Indies in April 1968. Within the collection, the reader will find varied studies of pidgin and creole languages by academics considered at this time leaders in their field.

This collection of work addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to education, and the contribution that research in education makes to anthropology and linguistics.

And many folklorists and anthropologists are likely to say, "too linguistic" and "too literary" both, whereas professors of literature are likely to say, "anthropological" or "folklore," not "literature" at all. Within that way of life, and now, I hope, within others, it offers some of the rewards and joys of literature.

Examines the power and significance of Native North American literatures and how they can best be approached and appreciated. This title argues that such narratives are ways of making sense of the world. It includes seminal overviews and reflections on the history and potential of the field of ethnopoetics.

Showcases the methodology and theory of ethnopoetics. Focusing on the rich Native storytelling traditions of the Pacific Northwest, this work investigates what particular stylistic and linguistic devices and patterns in oral tales reveal about rhythm and order in the cultures creating them.

A highly influential scholar urges that linguistics be studied as part of the entire communicative conduct of social groups and demonstrates the mutual relation between linguistics and other disciplines, such as sociology, social anthropology, and education.