デル・ハイムズ

の著作から引用します。

"My own work stems in part from a desire to understand the meanings of language in individual lives, and to work toward ending the frequent alienation from human beings of something human beings have created" (Hymes 1974: 65-66)

Reference
Hymes, D. (1974). Foundations in sociolinguistics: An ethnographic approach. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

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