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Dell Hymes was a prominent anthropologist, linguist, and educational visionary whose work fundamentally changed the fields of sociolinguistics and anthropology. He studied how social variation affects language and language affects society. Hymes introduced the concepts of communicative competence and the ethnography of communication. He shifted the focus from linguistic competence alone to include appropriate language use based on social and cultural contexts. Hymes
- Author
- Reniel Domingo
- Language
- EN