In the 1960s, American linguistic anthropologist Dell Hymes began to develop a fieldwork methodology for studying language in its social and cultural contexts. This methodology was called:
a. the ethnography of speaking.
b. ethnoscience.
c. speaking in context.
d. the new ethnography.
a
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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A. cultural relativism B. ethnobias C. overinnovation D. underdifferentiation E. intervention philosophy
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