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Stephen Levinson. 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 .
From “thought and language” to “thinking for speaking”. DI Slobin. 3277. 1996. The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. N Evans, SC Levinson. Behavioral and brain sciences 32 (5), 429-448. , 2009. 2779.
Stephen.Levinson@mpi.nl. Stephen C. Levinson. Publications. Presentations. My research focusses on language diversity and its implications for theories of human cognition. Language is the only animal communication system that differs radically in form and meaning across social groups of the same species, a fact that has been neglected in the ...
Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (1994-), Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen (1995-) Lecturer, then Reader, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Linguistics (1975-1994) Research fellow, Australian National University (1982-1983) Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford, Linguistics Department & CSLI (1987-1988) Fellow of the British Academy ...
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Stephen C. Levinson, Short CV Academic Positions held Director (emeritus), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (1994-2017); Research Fellow, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (2010-); Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen (1995-);
Stephen C. Levinson. Born 1947 in London. Study of archeology and anthropology Cambridge, BA (1970), linguistic anthropology, UC Berkeley/MA (1972), doctorate UC Berkeley (1977), Reader Cambridge Univ. in Linguistics (1975-1994), head of research group for cognitive anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (1989-1997), Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck ...
Abstract. This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field. of pragmatics, the ‘Dark Matter’ of the title. We can identify a key. bottleneck in human communication, the sheer limitation on the speed. of speech encoding: pragmatics occupies the niche nestled between. slow speech encoding and fast comprehension.
