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Stephen C. Levinson FBA (born 6 December 1947) 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.
Articles 1–20. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics - Cited by 135,042 - Linguistics - sociolinguistics - spatial language and cognition - semantic typology.
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 cognitive sciences.
Stephen C Levinson. We present a visual world eye‐tracking study on Tseltal (a Mayan language) and investigate whether verbal information can be used to anticipate an upcoming referent. Basic...
26 Jun 2024 · Stephen C. Levinson. Published 1983. Description. Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics.
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-);
7 Feb 2018 · 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 ...
