Dell Hymes died (13/11/2009)

[Ross Clark]

American linguist (yes, a linguist!), born 1927.
I'm sure I wrote a bit about him in the Linguistic Birthdays series
(2018), but can't retrieve it now.
He was involved in many different subject areas, but is best remembered
for: - study of Chinookan languages;
- "ethnopoetics" (especially of Native American cultures)
- "linguistic anthropology", "ethnography of speaking"
The last is how he defined his own approach, starting with the social
context in which speaking takes place (something most descriptive
linguists either ignored altogether or treated as marginal).
Crystal mentions his "S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G" acronym (no, not really an
acronym?-- sort of an acrostic mnemonic?) -- things to pay attention to
when studying speaking:

Setting/Scene
Participants
Ends
Act sequence
Key
Instrumentalities
Norms
Genre

More detail here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Hymes

along with "Sexual harrassment allegations" (a first for this series, I
think), and what looks like a malicious cacography in the first line of
the following section.

[Christian Weisgerber]

Post by Ross Clark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Hymes
along with "Sexual harrassment allegations" (a first for this series, I
think), and what looks like a malicious cacography in the first line of
the following section.

There was a bit more vandalism there. ... Fixed.

[Athel Cornish-Bowden]

Post by Christian Weisgerber

Post by Ross Clark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Hymes
along with "Sexual harrassment allegations" (a first for this series, I
think), and what looks like a malicious cacography in the first line of
the following section.

There was a bit more vandalism there. ... Fixed.

While I suppose it's true that there was sexual harrassment the sources
given don't seem to be reliable. I have never seen the Daily
Pennsylvanian, but back in mists of time I sometimes read the Daily
Californian -- interesting enough, but not what I would regard as a
reliable source.