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Jun 07, 1927 Portland, Oregon, United States Died on 13 Nov 2009 (aged 82)
American anthropologist and linguist
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About Dell Hymes
- Dell Hathaway Hymes (June 7, 1927 in Portland, Oregon – November 13, 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia) was a linguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist who established disciplinary foundations for the comparative, ethnographic study of language use.
- His research focused upon the languages of the Pacific Northwest.
- He was one of the first to call the fourth subfield of anthropology "linguistic anthropology" instead of "anthropological linguistics".
- The terminological shift draws attention to the field's grounding in anthropology rather than in what, by that time, had already become an autonomous discipline (linguistics).
- In 1972 Hymes founded the journal Language in Society and served as its editor for 22 years.
- He was accused of sexual harassment in the later years of his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania.
