| 词条 | Stephen Levinson |
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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, currently one of the scientific directors of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Levinson was educated at Bedales School and King's College, Cambridge, where he received a BA in Archaeology and Social Anthropology, and University of California Berkeley where he received a PhD in Linguistic Anthropology.[1] He has held posts at the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and the Australian National University, and is currently Professor of Comparative Linguistics at Radboud University. 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.[2] Levinson's earliest work was with John Gumperz in interactional sociolinguistics, studying the interaction patterns in a multilingual community in India. He has written extensively on pragmatics, producing the first comprehensive textbook in the field (1983). He locates his work on pragmatics under what he has called the Gricean umbrella (2000:12ff.), a broad theory of communication that focuses on the role of 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 Max Planck Society and based at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Work in his Language and Cognition group (formerly Cognitive Anthropology research group) focuses on linguistic diversity and its importance to cognitive science. The group has played a pioneering role in developing the field of semantic typology and new models of language documentation. , In 2009, Levinson co-wrote (with Nicholas Evans) a hotly debated article contesting the existence of non-trivial linguistic universals and arguing that linguistic diversity is a crucial datum for cognitive science. Levinson was one of the driving forces behind a re-evaluation of the notion of linguistic relativity in the early nineties, publishing (with Gumperz) an influential review of the issue (Current Anthropology, 1991) and co-editing (with Gumperz) a volume on the topic with contributions of experts from various fields (Gumperz & Levinson 1996). An influential paper with Penelope Brown titled Immanuel Kant among the Tenejapans: Anthropology as Empirical Philosophy won the 1992 Stirling Award of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Levinson's work on language and space (Levinson & Brown 1993, Levinson 2003, 2006) demonstrated a form of linguistic relativity by showing that speakers of languages which use different spatial systems solve non-verbal spatial tasks in distinct ways. His recent work describes the relations between culture of the inhabitants of Rossel Island, and their Yélî Dnye language. References cited and notable publications
| publisher = Cambridge University Press | isbn = 0-521-22235-4 | last = Levinson | first = Stephen C. | title = Pragmatics | location = Cambridge | series = Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics | year = 1983 }}
| publisher = Cambridge University Press | isbn = 0-521-30862-3 | last = Brown | first = Penelope |author2=Stephen C. Levinson | title = Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage | location = Cambridge | series = Studies in interactional sociolinguistics | year = 1987 }}
| volume = 34 | issue = 3 | pages = 22–23 | last = Levinson | first = Stephen C. |author2=Penelope Brown | title = Background to "Immanuel Kant among the Tenejapans" | journal = Anthropology Newsletter | year = 1993 }}
| volume = 22 | issue = 1 | pages = 3–41 | last = Levinson | first = Stephen C. |author2=Penelope Brown | title = Immanuel Kant among the Tenejapans: Anthropology as empirical philosophy | journal = Ethos | year = 1994 | jstor=640467 | doi=10.1525/eth.1994.22.1.02a00010 }}
| publisher = MIT Press | last = Levinson | first = Stephen C. | title = Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature | year = 2000 }}
| publisher = Cambridge University Press | last = Levinson | first = Stephen C. | title = Space in language and cognition: explorations in cognitive diversity | location = Cambridge | year = 2003 }}
| doi = 10.1017/S0140525X0999094X | volume = 32 | pages = 429–492 | last = Evans | first = Nicholas |author2=Stephen C. Levinson | title = The Myth of Language Universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science | journal = Behavioral and Brain Sciences | year = 2009 }}
| issn = 0011-3204 | volume = 32 | issue = 5 | pages = 613–623 | last = Gumperz | first = John J. |author2=Stephen C. Levinson | title = Rethinking Linguistic Relativity | journal = Current Anthropology | date = December 1991 | jstor=2743696 | doi=10.1086/204009 | url = http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:1552158/component/escidoc:1552157/Levinson_Rethinking_Linguistic_Relativity_1991.pdf }}
| publisher = MIT Press | last = Levinson | first = Stephen C. |author2=Pierre Jaisson | title = Evolution and culture | location = Cambridge, MA | year = 2006 }}
| publisher = Cambridge University Press | last = Levinson | first = Stephen C. |author2=David P. Wilkins | title = Grammars of space | location = Cambridge | year = 2006 }} References1. ^1 LEVINSON, Prof. Stephen Curtis, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 2. ^http://www.uu.se/en/media/news/article/?id=7322&area=2,6,12,16&typ=artikel&lang=en External links
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