Editing Dell Hymes (section)

==Early life and education==
He was educated at [[Reed College]], studying under [[David H. French (anthropologist)|David H. French]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Reed Magazine: Ways We Speak (1/4)|url=https://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/winter2008/features/ways_we_speak/index.html|access-date=2022-01-01|website=www.reed.edu}}</ref> and after a stint in prewar Korea, he graduated in 1950. His work in the [[United States Army]] as a decoder is part of what influenced him to become a linguist. Hymes earned his [[PhD]] in linguistic from [[Indiana University Bloomington]] in 1955.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Bromley |first=Anne E. |date=November 18, 2009 |title=U.Va. Professor Emeritus Dell Hymes, Influential Linguistic Anthropologist, Has Died |work=UVA Today |url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-professor-emeritus-dell-hymes-influential-linguistic-anthropologist-has-died |access-date=November 17, 2022}}</ref><ref>A fellow folklore graduate student at Indiana was his former Reed classmate, the poet [[Gary Snyder]]</ref> As a young Ph.D. graduate, Hymes carefully analyzed a corpus, within the publication by [[Melville Jacobs]] of the songs and stories of [[Victoria Howard]], developing new approaches to the interpretation of oral narratives.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Howard |first=Victoria |title=Clackamas Chinook performance art: verse form interpretations |last2=Mason |first2=Catharine |last3=Jacobs |first3=Melville |date=2021 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press American Indian Research Institute, Indiana University |isbn=978-1-4962-2411-8 |series=Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians series |location=Lincoln Bloomington}}</ref> He went on to take a job at [[Harvard University]].

Even at that young age, Hymes had a reputation as a strong linguist; his dissertation, completed in one year, was a grammar of the [[Kathlamet language]] spoken near the mouth of the [[Columbia River|Columbia]] and known primarily from [[Franz Boas]]’s work at the end of the 19th century.