Professor Dell Hymes FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1991
Year of birth
1927
Year of death
2009
Honours
FBA

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and English, University of Virginia

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams FBA

Philology Central and Inner Asia

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Professor Bencie Woll FBA

Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.

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Professor Debra Myhill FBA

Writing and the teaching of writing, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic development; the composing processes involved in writing; the talk-writing relationship; the teaching of grammar; and creative writing

Debra Myhill FBA

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