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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.
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 cognitive sciences.
Articles 1–20. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics - Cited by 135,124 - Linguistics - sociolinguistics - spatial language and cognition - semantic typology.
Stephen C Levinson. Human communicative interaction is characterized by rapid and precise turn-taking. This is achieved by an intricate system that has been elucidated in the field of...
Feb 7, 2018 · Max Planck Society. Munich, Germany. Stephen Levinson. Overview. Bio. Network 61. Publications 76.
In this book Stephen C. Levinson explains some general processes that underlie presumptions in communication. This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades.
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-);
