Stephen Levinson

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Stephen Levinson
Born
Stephen Curtis Levinson

1947
NationalityBritish
OccupationSocial scientist
SpousePenelope Brown
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Academic work
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

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.

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. In December 2017, he retired as director of the Language and Cognition department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.[2] 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.[3] He is the current president of the International Pragmatics Association.[4]

  1. ^ a b LEVINSON, Prof. Stephen Curtis, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  2. ^ "History Timeline | Max Planck Institute". www.mpi.nl.
  3. ^ "Faculty of Languages appoints two new honorary doctors - Uppsala University, Sweden".
  4. ^ "International Pragmatics Association (IPrA): Organization".