Stephen C. Levinson

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Stephen Curtis Levinson (born December 6, 1947 in London ) is a British social scientist whose main focus is on studies and relationships between culture , language and cognitive psychology . Levinson is currently Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen , the Netherlands . He is a member of the Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).

Live and act

His education began at the Levinson Bedales School and later at King's College in Cambridge where he received his Bachelor (BA) in Archeology and Social Anthropology acquired. He moved the center of his life from England to California and studied further at the University of California, Berkeley . He finished his studies with a doctorate ( PhD ) in linguistic anthropology . He carried out his first scientific field studies with John Gumperz (1922–2013) in the field of interactive linguistics ( pragmatics ), so they examined the interaction patterns in a multilingual community in India.

From 1991 onwards Levinson had his own research group and his own research funds in the Max Planck Society and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. His working group set new standards in the field of semantic typology .

The facial concept he helped to develop is a universally applicable courtesy model.

Works (selection)

  • Pragmatics. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983, ISBN 0-521-22235-4 .
  • Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2000.
  • Space in language and cognition: explorations in cognitive diversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003.
  • Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson: Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Studies in interactional sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987, ISBN 0-521-30862-3 .
  • Stephen C. Levinson, Penelope Brown: Background to "Immanuel Kant among the Tenejapans. Anthropology Newsletter 34 (1993) (3): 22-23.
  • Stephen C. Levinson, Penelope Brown: Immanuel Kant among the Tenejapans: Anthropology as empirical philosophy. Ethos 22 (1994) (1): 3-41. doi : 10.1525 / eth.1994.22.1.02a00010 .
  • Nicholas Evans, Stephen C. Levinson: The Myth of Language Universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (2009): 429-492. doi : 10.1017 / S0140525X0999094X .
  • John J. Gumperz, Stephen C. Levinson: Rethinking Linguistic Relativity. Current Anthropology 32 (5): (December 1991) 613-623. doi : 10.1086 / 204009 .
  • Stephen C. Levinson, Pierre Jaisson: Evolution and culture. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2006.
  • Stephen C. Levinson, David P. Wilkins: Grammars of space. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on Max Planck Society, Munich
  2. ↑ a b LEVINSON, Prof. Stephen Curtis , Who's Who 2014 , A&C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  3. ↑ Christian Lehmann Language Typology
personal data
SURNAME Levinson, Stephen C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levinson, Stephen Curtis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British linguist, anthropologist and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH London