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Language Theory In Contemporary Sociolinguistics: Beyond Dell Hymes?, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2015

Language Theory In Contemporary Sociolinguistics: Beyond Dell Hymes?, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone


Language in Society was founded, in 1972, specifically to publish research related to “all the interrelations of language and social life” (Hymes 1972: 2). The journal’s founding editor, Dell Hymes, hoped that the journal would help lead to “a reconstruction of social theory in the light of linguistic methods and findings, and of linguistic theory on a social basis” (p. 2). When it came to the latter of these goals, Hymes hoped for a “broad conception of language and its relevance” (p. 3), broader than that of the “central thread” of twentieth-century linguistic theory, with its focus on reference at …


The Individual Voice In Language, Barbara Johnstone Dec 1999

The Individual Voice In Language, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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