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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968388903321

Autore

Hymes Dell H

Titolo

Ethnography, linguistics, narrative inequality : toward an understanding of voice / / Dell Hymes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Bristol, PA, : Taylor & Francis, 1996

ISBN

1-135-74565-X

1-138-96905-2

9786610105427

1-135-74566-8

1-280-10542-9

0-203-21181-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages)

Collana

Critical perspectives on literacy and education

Disciplina

306.4/4/089

Soggetti

Anthropological linguistics

Language and languages - Variation

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series statement from jkt.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-249) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 language is to contribute adequately to problems of education and inequality. Finally, the third section takes up discoveries about narrative, which show that young people's narratives may have a depth of form and skill that has gone largely unrecognized.