Ethnography, linguistics, narrative inequality : toward an understanding of voice / Dell Hymes.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-249) and indexes.

What is ethnography? -- Educational ethnology -- Speech and language : on the origins and foundations of inequality among speakers -- Report from an underdeveloped country : toward linguistic competence in the United States -- Narrative thinking and story-telling rights -- Narrative form as a grammar of experience : Native Americans and a glimpse of English -- Oral patterns as a resource in children`s writing -- Ethnopoetics and sociolinguistics : three stories by African-American children -- Bernstein and poetics -- Inequality in language : taking for granted.