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Dell Hathaway Hymes

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Language , Volume 86 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 933 - 939
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Copyright © 2010 Linguistic Society of America

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Thanks to Gay Walker, Special Collections Librarian, Reed College Library, for access to unpublished material and to Laurie Lindquist, Classnotes Editor, Reed Magazine, for supplying bibliographic data. Lise M. Dobrin of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia kindly transmitted a copy of Hymes's curriculum vitae.

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