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Stephen C. Levinson

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics ORCID

460

Works

55,292

Citations

84

h-index

177

i10-index

Research Topics

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Categorization, perception, and language

Affiliations

Marshall Space Flight Center1975–1975

United Aircraft (Russia)1977–1979

Center for Applied Linguistics1987–1987

Radboud University Nijmegen2006–2023

Max Planck Society1990–2020

Top Works

Penelope Brown,Stephen C. Levinson,et al.

19879,680 citations

Stephen C. Levinson | Researchclopedia

Language and cultural evolution

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Stephen C. Levinson

19834,866 citations

WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.]

Asifa Majid,Stephen C. Levinson

20104,096 citations

The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science

Nicholas Evans,Stephen C. Levinson

20092,609 citations

Presumptive meanings: The theory of generalized conversational implicature

Stephen C. Levinson

20002,292 citations

Presumptive Meanings

Stephen C. Levinson

20002,244 citations

Space in language and cognition explorations in cognitive diversity

Stephen C. Levinson

20031,777 citations

Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation

Tanya Stivers,N. J. Enfield,et al.

20091,447 citations

Politeness: Some universals in language use

Penelope Brown,Stephen C. Levinson

19991,115 citations