Stephen Levinson
Stephen Levinson | |
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Born | Stephen Curtis Levinson 1947 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Social scientist |
Spouse | Penelope Brown |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
Stephen C. Levinson FBA (born 6 December 1947)[1] is a British social scientist, known for his studies of the relations between culture, language and cognition, and former scientific director of the Language and Cognition department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Levinson was educated at
Radboud University. In December 2017, he retired as director of the Language and Cognition department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.[2] Among other distinctions, he is winner of the 1992 Stirling Prize, Fellow-elect of the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, member of the Academia Europaea, and 2009 Hale Professor of the Linguistic Society of America. In 2017 Levinson received an honorary doctorate award from Uppsala University.[3] He is the current president of the International Pragmatics Association.[4]
Career
Levinson's earliest work was with
conversational implicatures. His work with Penelope Brown on language structures related to formality and politeness across the world led to the publication of Politeness: Universals in Language Usage (1978/1987), a foundational work in politeness theory
.
From 1991 onward Levinson has led his own research lab, funded by the
Conversation Analysis through studies on e.g. repair[5] and sequence organization[6] across a wide variety of language. This has also led to lesser studied languages being taken into account in Interactional linguistics
.
Levinson was one of the driving forces behind a re-evaluation of the notion of
Yélî Dnye language
.
References cited and notable publications
- Levinson, Stephen C. (1983). Pragmatics. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22235-4.
- Brown, Penelope; Stephen C. Levinson (1987). Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Studies in interactional sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-30862-3.
- Levinson, Stephen C.; Penelope Brown (1993). "Background to "Immanuel Kant among the Tenejapans"". Anthropology Newsletter. 34 (3): 22–23.
- Levinson, Stephen C.; Penelope Brown (1994). "Immanuel Kant among the Tenejapans: Anthropology as empirical philosophy". Ethos. 22 (1): 3–41. JSTOR 640467.
- Levinson, Stephen C. (2000). Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature. MIT Press.
- Levinson, Stephen C. (2003). Space in language and cognition: explorations in cognitive diversity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Evans, Nicholas; Stephen C. Levinson (2009). "The Myth of Language Universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32 (5): 429–492. PMID 19857320.
- Gumperz, John J.; Stephen C. Levinson (December 1991). "Rethinking Linguistic Relativity" (PDF). Current Anthropology. 32 (5): 613–623. S2CID 162295567.
- Levinson, Stephen C.; Pierre Jaisson (2006). Evolution and culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Levinson, Stephen C.; David P. Wilkins (2006). Grammars of space. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
References
- ^ a b LEVINSON, Prof. Stephen Curtis, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
- ^ "History Timeline | Max Planck Institute". www.mpi.nl.
- ^ "Faculty of Languages appoints two new honorary doctors - Uppsala University, Sweden".
- ^ "International Pragmatics Association (IPrA): Organization".
- PMID 26375483.)
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