Stephen C. Levinson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephen C. Levinson plays a role.

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Reciprocals and Semantic Typology

Edited by Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid

[Typological Studies in Language, 98] 2011. viii, 349 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Levinson, Stephen C. 2022 Cognitive anthropologyHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 164–170 | Chapter
Levinson, Stephen C. 2017 Living with Manny’s dangerous ideaEnabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff, Raymond, Geoffrey, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage (eds.), pp. 327–349 | Chapter
Daniel Dennett, inDarwin’s Dangerous Idea, argues that natural selection is a universal acid that eats through other theories, because it can explain just about everything, even the structure of the mind. Emanuel (Manny)Schegloff (1987) in ‘Between Micro and Macro: Context and Other Connections’… read more
Roberts, Seán G. and Stephen C. Levinson 2017 Conversation, cognition and cultural evolution: A model of the cultural evolution of word order through pressures imposed from turn taking in conversationInteraction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language, Hartmann, Stefan, Michael Pleyer, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 402–442 | Article
This paper outlines a first attempt to model the special constraints that arise in language processing in conversation, and to explore the implications such functional considerations may have on language typology and language change. In particular, we focus on processing pressures imposed by… read more
Levinson, Stephen C. 2012 PrefaceEvents of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. xi–xvi | Preface
Levinson, Stephen C. and Penelope Brown 2012 Put and Take in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel IslandEvents of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 273–296 | Article
This paper describes the linguistic treatment of placement events in the Rossel Island (Papua New Guinea) language Yélî Dnye. Yélî Dnye is unusual in treating PUT and TAKE events symmetrically with a remarkable consistency. In what follows, we first provide a brief background for the language, then… read more
Ruiter, J.P. de, Matthijs L. Noordzij, Sarah Newman-Norlund, Roger Newman-Norlund, Peter Hagoort, Stephen C. Levinson and Ivan Toni 2012 Exploring the cognitive infrastructure of communicationExperimental Semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication, Galantucci, Bruno and Simon Garrod (eds.), pp. 51–78 | Article
Human communication is often thought about in terms of transmitted messages in a conventional code like a language. But communication requires a specialized interactive intelligence. Senders have to be able to perform recipient design, while receivers need to be able to do intention recognition,… read more
Evans, Nicholas, Stephen C. Levinson, Alice Gaby and Asifa Majid 2011 1. Introduction: Reciprocals and semantic typologyReciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Article
Reciprocity lies at the heart of social cognition, and with it so does the encoding of reciprocity in language via reciprocal constructions. Despite the prominence of strong universal claims about the semantics of reciprocal constructions, there is considerable descriptive literature on the… read more
Levinson, Stephen C. 2011 10. Reciprocals in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel IslandReciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 177–194 | Article
Yélî Dnye has two discernable dedicated constructions for reciprocal marking. The first and main construction uses a dedicated reciprocal pronoun numo, somewhat like English each other. We can recognise two subconstructions. First, the ‘numo-construction’, where the reciprocal pronoun is a patient… read more
Majid, Asifa, Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby and Stephen C. Levinson 2011 2. The semantics of reciprocal constructions across languages: An extensional approachReciprocals and Semantic Typology, Evans, Nicholas, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson and Asifa Majid (eds.), pp. 29–60 | Article
How similar are reciprocal constructions in the semantic parameters they encode? We investigate this question by using an extensional approach, which examines similarity of meaning by examining how constructions are applied over a set of 64 videoclips depicting reciprocal events (Evans et al. 2004). read more
Ruiter, J.P. de, Matthijs L. Noordzij, Sarah Newman-Norlund, Roger Newman-Norlund, Peter Hagoort, Stephen C. Levinson and Ivan Toni 2010 Exploring the cognitive infrastructure of communicationExperimental Semiotics: A new approach for studying the emergence and the evolution of human communication, Galantucci, Bruno and Simon Garrod (eds.), pp. 51–77 | Article
Human communication is often thought about in terms of transmitted messages in a conventional code like a language. But communication requires a specialized interactive intelligence. Senders have to be able to perform recipient design, while receivers need to be able to do intention recognition,… read more
Levinson, Stephen C. 2009 Cognitive anthropologyCulture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 50–57 | Article
Levinson, Stephen C. 2003 3. Contextualizing “contextualization cues”Language and Interaction: Discussions with John J. Gumperz, Eerdmans, Susan L., Carlo L. Prevignano and Paul J. Thibault (eds.), pp. 31–39 | Chapter
Levinson, Stephen C. 1995 Cognitive anthropologyHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 100–105 | Article
Levinson, Stephen C. 1987 5. Minimization and conversational inferenceThe Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference, Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (eds.), pp. 61–130 | Chapter
Levinson, Stephen C. 1981 The essential inadequacies of speech act models of dialoguePossibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Conference on Pragmatics, Urbino, July 8–14, 1979, Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 473–492 | Article