Stephen C. Levinson#
| Membership Number: | 2198 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2003 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpi.nl/people/levinson-stephen |
Present and Previous Positions
- Managing Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (1998-2001, 2007-8)
- Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (1994-)
- Professor of Comparative Linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen (1995- )
- Reader, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Linguistics (till 1994)
- Head, Max Planck Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Berlin (1989-1991) and Nijmegen (1991-1997)
Fields of Scholarship
- Interactional sociolinguistics
- Linguistic pragmatics
- Cognitive anthropology
- Spatial language and cognition
- Language and cognition
- Linguistic description and documentation
Honours and Awards
- Senior Scholar, King's College, Cambridge, 1970
- Fullbright Award, 1970
- Member of High Table, King’s College, Cambridge, 1975-
- Professor, Linguistic Society of America Linguistics Institute, Stanford University, 1987
- Fellow of the British Academy, 1988
- The Nijmegen Lectures 1988
- Stirling Prize, American Anthropology Association, 1992
- The Stern Lectures, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1998
- Professor, Linguistic Society of America Linguistics Institute, U.C. Santa Barbara 2001
- Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fellow-Elect 2001
- Member of the Academia Europaea, 2003-
- Hale Professor, Linguistic Society of America, 2009
