Dell Hymes presents a structured and systematic form for observing, describing/explaining and organizing communication, specifically components of communication within a given setting. This method of observing communication behaviors is Hymes’ general means of doing an ethnography of communication.
Within this type of ethnographic study and observation, there are the levels of contexts for observing the communication, from a general speech community to the small speech acts that contain individual meaningful, purposeful communicative acts that display a small part of activity that the speech community may be holding.
Within these contexts, an “ethnographer of communication” , may observe different elements of communication within the specifics of a speech community. This includes the situations or the setting/ scene of the interaction, norms or the rules regulating that interaction, and the participants or the people in that communicative interaction.
Observing this spectrum of communication within a specific group uncovers the differences in speaking, talking and overall communicating based on the circumstances and factors of a specific speech community and its communicative components. It shows that the same type of communication could be identified extremely different within two separate communities.
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