Title: Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality: Toward an Understanding of Voice by Dell Hymes. London, UK and Bristol,
Abstract:The view of language as inseparable from its speakers and from its context has always been present in linguistics, but it has not always been popular. When the Chomskian revolution in the 60's swept a...The view of language as inseparable from its speakers and from its context has always been present in linguistics, but it has not always been popular. When the Chomskian revolution in the 60's swept away the achievements of the structuralists (compromised by their theoretical allegiance with Skinnerian behaviorism), graduate students of child language acquisition were advised against mentioning in their dissertation the child as an active learner, or the family and the community as the people whose language the child was learning. With a vantage point from the present situation in the field, Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality gives a historical perspective on the study of situated language use since the 1970's, reaffirming the theoretical and political value of linguistic studies outside of the generative grammar movement. Dell Hymes takes a strong and original stance, viewing social science as a mediating practice, as activism and intervention, and social scientists as practitioners, as well as researchers.Read More
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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