The interaction/relationship has proven fruitful for the study of linguistics as discourse and its communicative purposes. Hyme, while recognizing the contributions of the great anthropological linguistics, such as Boas, Goodenough, Malinowski, Lévi-Strauss, Firth, Greenberg, Sapir, etc., also established the foundations of sociolinguistics. Their precursors such as Gumperz, Brown, Bernstein and Bright adopted a new methodology in which not only linguistic discourse, such as stylistics, verbal/written art, but equivalent importance is given to social, political, cultural and historical meaning and to how these things can be employed systematically within language to study the effects of language. Furthermore, Pike's tagmemic approach to human language and behavior provides the backdrop for new developments in discourse analysis (Pike, 1967), which provide insights into the discourse analysis of narratives in indigenous languages (Grimes, 1975; Longacre, 1977). In Europe, in 1964, textual linguistics or textual grammar, by Hartmann and Harris (1952), developed the analysis of linguistic discourse in a new generative-transformative approach to the grammar of texts.
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