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Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication 1

1964; Wiley; Volume: 66; Issue: 6_PART2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/aa.1964.66.suppl_3.02a00010

1548-1433

Dell Hymes,

Social Representations and Identity

American AnthropologistVolume 66, Issue 6_PART2 p. 1-34 Free Access Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication† DELL HYMES, DELL HYMES University of California, BerkeleySearch for more papers by this author DELL HYMES, DELL HYMES University of California, BerkeleySearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1964 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1964.66.suppl_3.02a00010Citations: 294 † To Susan Ervin-Tripp, John Gumperz, Michael Halliday, Sydney Lamb, Sheldon Sacks, and Dan Slobin, I am indebted for warm discussions of language and its social study; to Bob Scholte and Erving Goffman, for pointed argument as to the notion of communication; to Harold Conklin, Charles Frake, Ward Goodenough, Floyd Lounsbury, and William C. Sturtevant, for discussion through several years of the nature of ethnography. To all much thanks and no blame. 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