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D-Index
54
Citations
24720
World Ranking
2082
National Ranking
1000

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1969 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1968 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Dell Hymes was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the Social Sciences, with notable attention to Linguistics and Language, Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Their work addressed several main topics, including:

  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Gender Studies in Language
  • Caribbean history, culture, and politics

Hymes contributed scholarly articles predominantly to the International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Two recent papers include:

  • "The Scope of Sociolinguistics" (2020), published in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language
  • "Pidginization and Creolization of Languages: Their Social Contexts" (2020), published in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Dell Hymes did not have frequent co-authors listed in the available data. The International Journal of the Sociology of Language appeared as their primary publication venue with multiple contributions.

Their achievements include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1969 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1968.

Best Publications

  • The ethnography of speaking

    Dell Η. Hymes

  • Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach

    Dell H. Hymes

  • Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication

    Joseph Bosco;John J. Gumperz;Dell Hymes

  • Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life

    Dell Hymes

  • Functions of Language in the Classroom

    Courtney B. Cazden;Vera P. John;Dell H. Hymes

  • Proxemics [and Comments and Replies]

    Edward T. Hall;Ray L. Birdwhistell;Bernhard Bock;Paul Bohannan

  • Pidginization and Creolization of Languages.

    R. B. le Page;Dell Hymes

  • Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Setting

    Dell Hymes

  • Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality: Toward An Understanding Of Voice

    Dell H. Hymes

  • Acerca de la competencia comunicativa

    Dell Hathaway Hymes;Juan Gómez Bernal

  • Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication1

    Unknown

  • "In vain I tried to tell you": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics

    Dell H. Hymes

  • Language in culture and society : a reader in linguistics and anthropology

    Dell H. Hymes

  • Breakthrough into performance

    Dell Hymes

  • Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking: Ways of Speaking

    Unknown

  • Language in Education: Ethnolinguistic Essays

    Dell H. Hymes

  • Foundations of Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach

    Unknown

  • Folklore's Nature and the Sun's Myth

    Dell Hymes

  • Vers la compétence de communication

    Dell H. Hymes;Daniel Coste

  • Language, Communication, Chimpanzees [and Comments and Reply]

    Georges Mounin;L. Brunelle;Ronald Dare;Marc R. Feldesman

  • Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality

    Dell Hymes

  • Context and Meaning in Cultural Anthropology

    Dell Hymes;Melford E. Spiro

  • 34. Communicative Competence

    Unknown

  • Review of Dell Hymes, Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative, Inequality: Toward an Understanding of Voice

    Barbara Johnstone;Dell Hymes

  • In Search of the Primitive. A Critique of Civilization

    Dell Hymes;Stanley Diamond

  • "In Vain I Tried to Tell You": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics

    Craig Mishler;Dell Hymes

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph H. Greenberg
Joseph H. Greenberg Stanford University
Peter Burke
Peter Burke University of California, Riverside
Monica Heller
Monica Heller University of Toronto
Thomas A. Sebeok
Thomas A. Sebeok Indiana University

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