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  • Dell Hymes died (13/11/2009)

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 13 22:18:46 2024
    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.

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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to Ross Clark on Wed Nov 13 11:29:38 2024
    On 2024-11-13, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

    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.

    There was a bit more vandalism there. ... Fixed.

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to Christian Weisgerber on Wed Nov 13 17:37:16 2024
    On 2024-11-13 11:29:38 +0000, Christian Weisgerber said:

    On 2024-11-13, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

    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.

    There was a bit more vandalism there. ... Fixed.

    While I suppose it's true that there was sexual harrassment the sources
    given don't seem to be reliable. I have never seen the Daily
    Pennsylvanian, but back in mists of time I sometimes read the Daily
    Californian -- interesting enough, but not what I would regard as a
    reliable source.

    --
    Athel cb

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