1st Edition
Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality Toward An Understanding Of Voice
By Dell Hymes
Copyright 1996
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
276 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
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This collection of work addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to education, and the contribution that research in education makes to anthropology and linguistics.; The first section of the book pinpoints characteristics of anthropology that most make a difference to research in education. The second section describes the perspective that is needed if the study of... Read more
Part 1 Ethnography: what is ethnography?; education ethnology. Part 2 Linguistics: speech and language - on the origins and foundations of inequality among speakers; report from an underdeveloped country - toward linguistic competence in the United States. Part 3 Narrative and inequality: narrative thinking and story-telling rights - a folklorist'sclue to a critique of education; narrative form as a grammar of experience; oral patterns as a resource in children's writing - an ethnopoetic note; ethnopoetics and socioloinguistics - three stories by African-American children; Bernstein and poetics; inequality in language - taking for granted.
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Dell Hymes
