Dell Hymes

22.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
156 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Dell Hymes is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dell Hymes has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Language and Linguistics, 35 papers in Linguistics and Language and 14 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Dell Hymes's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (32 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (15 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (11 papers). Dell Hymes is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (32 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (15 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (11 papers). Dell Hymes collaborates with scholars based in United States. Dell Hymes's co-authors include John J. Gumperz, Joseph Bosco, Robert B. Page, G. B. Milner, Karen E. Johnson, Kenneth Burke, George W. Grace, J. K. A. Thomaneck, J. Hillis Miller and Melford E. Spiro and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Sociological Review and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

Dell Hymes

136 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach

1976 1.6k citations Dell Hymes et al. profile →
Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication

1973 1.6k citations John J. Gumperz, Dell Hymes et al. profile →
Reinventing Anthropology

1974 1.0k citations Dell Hymes et al. Journal of American Folklore profile →
Pidginization and Creolization of Languages.

1972 574 citations Dell Hymes et al. profile →
Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication.

1974 423 citations John J. Gumperz, Dell Hymes et al. profile →
Proxemics [and Comments and Replies]

1968 384 citations Dell Hymes et al. profile →
Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication¹

1964 315 citations Dell Hymes American Anthropologist profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Port Orford: (found poem)¹ 1995 ·American Anthropologist ·Dell Hymes	3
2	Nez Perce oral narratives . By Haruo Aoki and Deward E. WalkerJr. (University of California publications in linguistics, 104.) Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989. Pp. viii, 631. Paper $64.00. 1990 ·Language ·Dell Hymes	10
3	Codeswitching: Anthropological and sociological perspectives. Edited by Monica Heller. (Contributions to the sociology of language, 48.) Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1988. Pp. xiii, 225. DM 118. 1989 ·Language ·Dell Hymes	5
4	Anthropology and poetry 1986 ·Dialectical Anthropology ·Dell Hymes	4
5	Sound and sense : Linguistic essays on phonosemic subjects. By Roger Williams Wescott. (Edward Sapir monograph series in language, culture, and cognition, 8.) Lake Bluff, IL: Jupiter Press, 1980. Pp. xiv, 405. $10.00. 1983 ·Language ·Dell Hymes	11
6	Preface to a Neo-Firthian linguistics . By William M. ChristieJr. (Edward Sapir monograph series in language, culture, and cognition, 7.) Lake Bluff, IL: Jupiter Press, 1980. Pp. vii, 70. $6.00. [Supplement to Forum linguisticum 4:3.]. 1983 ·Language ·Dell Hymes	1
7	"In Vain I Tried to Tell You": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics 1983 ·Journal of American Folklore ·(unknown), Dell Hymes	2
8	Stormy petrel in linguistics . By Robert A. HallJr. Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, 1975. Pp. v, 230. 1980 ·Language ·Dell Hymes	10
9	Language in Education: Ethnolinguistic Essays. Language and Ethnography Series. 1980 ·Dell Hymes	10
10	Soziolinguistik : zur Ethnographie der Kommunikation 1979 ·Suhrkamp eBooks ·Dell Hymes, Florian Coulmas	6
11	Towards Linguistic Competence 1976 ·Sociologische Gids ·Dell Hymes	12
12	Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication 1975 ·Language ·Michael B. Kac, John J. Gumperz, Dell Hymes	10
13	Linguistics, Language, and Communication. 1974 ·Dell Hymes	6
14	Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method 1968 ·Language ·Dell Hymes, Kenneth Burke	199
15	Language and Culture 1968 ·Language ·Dell Hymes, Herbert Landar	0
16	The Ethnography of Communication 1966 ·Language ·Herbert Landar, John J. Gumperz, Dell Hymes	85
17	The use of computers in anthropology 1965 ·Dell Hymes, (unknown)	45
18	The Anthropology of Franz Boas. Essays on the Centennial of His Birth 1961 ·Journal of American Folklore ·Dell Hymes, Walter Goldschmidt	24
19	Papers from the Symposium on American Indian Linguistics Held at Berkeley July 7, 1951 1956 ·Language ·Dell Hymes	1
20	The language of the Kathlamet Chinook 1955 ·Americanae (AECID Library) ·Dell Hymes	5

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