Dan Slobin

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Dan Slobin

Dan Isaac Slobin (born March 7, 1939 ) is an American psychologist and linguist.

Life

Slobin studied psychology at the University of Michigan and received a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in 1960 . For the Master of Arts (1962) he moved to Harvard University , where he also received his doctorate in social psychology in 1964 . In the same year he went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught and researched until his retirement in 2004.

research

Slobin conducts research in the areas of first language acquisition , linguistic relativity and sign language . He became particularly known for his typological work on the verbalization of movement events (for more details see under Verb-framed Languages ). In this context, his theory “Thinking for Speaking” is also important. This deals with the influence of linguistic structures on the perspective that is already taken when thinking about the world.

Slobin has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009 . An important student is Leonard Talmy .

Works (selection)

  • Dan Isaac Slobin (Ed.): The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition , Volume 1: The Data. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ 1985.
  • Dan Isaac Slobin (Ed.): The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition , Volume 2: Theoretical issues. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ 1985.
  • Dan Isaac Slobin (Ed.): The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition , Volume 3. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ 1992.
  • Dan Isaac Slobin (Ed.): The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition , Volume 4. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ 1994.
  • Dan Isaac Slobin (Ed.): The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition , Volume 5: Expanding the contexts. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ 1997.

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