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Ethnography, linguistics, narrative inequality : toward an understanding of voice

Author: Dell H Hymes
Publisher: London ; Bristol, PA : Taylor & Francis, 1996.
Series: [Critical perspectives on literacy and education].
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Dell Hymes has revisited, enlarged and re-contextualized some of his leading essays, written over the last two decades, into a volume which addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to education, and the contribution that research in educational makes to anthropology and linguistics. The first section presents a historically grounded view of the role of ethnography in education, and pinpoints
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dell H Hymes
ISBN: 0748403477 9780748403479 0748403485 9780748403486
OCLC Number: 32893321
Notes: Series statement from jkt.
Description: xiii, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: What is ethnography? --
Educational ethnology --
Speech and language : on the origins and foundations of inequality among speakers --
Report from an underdeveloped country : toward linguistic competence in the United States --
Narrative thinking and story-telling rights --
Narrative form as a grammar of experience : Native Americans and a glimpse of English --
Oral patterns as a resource in children's writing --
Ethnopoetics and sociolinguistics : three stories by African-American children --
Bernstein and poetics --
Inequality in language : taking for granted.
Series Title: [Critical perspectives on literacy and education].
Responsibility: Dell Hymes.
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Abstract:

Dell Hymes has revisited, enlarged and re-contextualized some of his leading essays, written over the last two decades, into a volume which addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to education, and the contribution that research in educational makes to anthropology and linguistics. The first section presents a historically grounded view of the role of ethnography in education, and pinpoints those characteristics of anthropology that most make a difference to research in education. The second section provides a view of the engagement of language in social life in relation to recognizing and overcoming inequality, with a corresponding critique of the limitations of linguistics and anthropology in this regard. The third section takes up discoveries about narrative, where ethnography and linguistics converge, and shows that young people's narratives may have a depth of form and skill that has gone largely unrecognized.

This important volume illuminates Hymes' research as a whole; gives insights into current agendas and issues; and points to new areas for further research.

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