Dell Hymes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dell Hymes

American anthropologist and linguist

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1927

Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon, United States

Date of Death: 13-Nov-2009

Profession: university teacher, sociologist, anthropologist, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Dell Hathaway Hymes (June 7, 1927 in Portland, Oregon – November 13, 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia) was a linguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist who established disciplinary foundations for the comparative, ethnographic study of language use.
His research focused upon the languages of the Pacific Northwest.
He was one of the first to call the fourth subfield of anthropology "linguistic anthropology" instead of "anthropological linguistics".
The terminological shift draws attention to the field's grounding in anthropology rather than in what, by that time, had already become an autonomous discipline (linguistics).
In 1972 Hymes founded the journal Language in Society and served as its editor for 22 years.
He was accused of sexual harassment in the later years of his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania.