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Dell Hymes

1927 - 2009

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dell Hymes has received more than 349,342 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Dell Hymes is the 175th most popular linguist (down from 144th in 2019), the 8,292nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,749th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Linguist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

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  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Dell Hymes ranks 175 out of 214. Before him are Jane Ellen Harrison, Göran Malmqvist, Andrey Zaliznyak, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Christiane Nord, and Friedrich Kluge. After him are Lev Shcherba, John Rupert Firth, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Vladislav Illich-Svitych, Ivan Kuratov, and Monier Monier-Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Dell Hymes ranks 372. Before him are Birgit Brüel, Yrjö Hietanen, Henry Spira, Lorenza Mazzetti, José Azcona del Hoyo, and Emil Pažický. After him are Sirkka Polkunen, Lars Hall, Leslie Orgel, Igor Dmitriev, Viola Myers, and John Buscema. Among people deceased in 2009, Dell Hymes ranks 286. Before him are Türkan Saylan, Milan Rúfus, Klavdiya Boyarskikh, John Keel, Ricardo Londoño, and Uma Aaltonen. After him are Ine Schäffer, Stanley Jaki, Umberto Betti, Frankie Manning, Feroz Khan, and William Alston.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dell Hymes ranks 8,292 out of 20,380. Before him are Rob Van Dam (1970), Clare Boothe Luce (1903), Omar Epps (1973), John Esposito (1940), Mariette Hartley (1940), and Chelsea Clinton (1980). After him are Charles Horton Peck (1833), Patricia Morison (1915), Aloma Wright (1950), Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Harry Babcock (1890), and Missy Elliott (1971).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Dell Hymes ranks 18. Before him are George Kingsley Zipf (1902), William Stokoe (1919), William Dwight Whitney (1827), Charles F. Hockett (1916), Kenneth Lee Pike (1912), and George Perkins Marsh (1801). After him are Alice Kober (1906), Robert Blust (1940), Lyle Campbell (1942), Daniel Everett (1951), Einar Haugen (1906), and Mary Haas (1910).

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