Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach

by Dell H. Hymes

Book Overview

Sociolinguistics is conceived here as a fundamental critical perspective on the whole of the study of language. The scientific problems within present linguistics, the book contends, combine with social problems of the society in which linguists participate to press linguistics to discover ethnographic foundations. The work of providing such foundations largely remains to be done. Working out the implications of these three principles requires...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812210654
• ISBN13: 9780812210651
• Release Date: May 1974
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"