In 1964 Gumperz and Hymes edited a special issue of the ‘American Anthropologist’ which they entitled “The ethnography of communication “. In this study contented with the article by several brilliant scholars in the discipline of Anthropology, Sociology, Linguistics and psychology who contributed or addressed themselves to the issue in the context of verbal communication (Chienjer Charls Lin,jun10, 2004). The original publication had been revised, updated and expanded into ‘Directions in sociolinguistics: the ethnography of communication’ (1986).