For the American business consultant and author, see Michael J. Silverstein.
Michael Silverstein
Born
(1945-09-12)12 September 1945
New York, New York, U.S.
Died
17 July 2020(2020-07-17) (aged 74)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Known for
Metapragmatics, language ideology
Title
Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor
Academic background
Education
Harvard University (BA, Ph.D.)
Doctoral advisor
Karl Teeter[1]
Academic work
Institutions
University of Chicago
Semiotics
General concepts
Sign
relation
relational complex
Code
Confabulation
Connotation / Denotation
Encoding / Decoding
Lexical
Modality
Representation
Salience
Semiosis
Semiosphere
Semiotic theory of Peirce
Umwelt
Value
Fields
Biosemiotics
Cognitive semiotics
Computational semiotics
Literary semiotics
Semiotics of culture
Social semiotics
Methods
Commutation test
Paradigmatic analysis
Syntagmatic analysis
Semioticians
Mikhail Bakhtin
Roland Barthes
Marcel Danesi
John Deely
Umberto Eco
Paolo Fabbri
Gottlob Frege
Algirdas Julien Greimas
Félix Guattari
Stuart Hall
Louis Hjelmslev
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Roman Jakobson
Roberta Kevelson
Kalevi Kull
Juri Lotman
Charles W. Morris
Charles S. Peirce
Susan Petrilli
John Poinsot
Augusto Ponzio
Ferdinand de Saussure
Thomas Sebeok
Michael Silverstein
Eero Tarasti
Vladimir Toporov
Jakob von Uexküll
Victoria, Lady Welby
Related topics
Copenhagen–Tartu school
Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School
Structuralism
Post-structuralism
Deconstruction
Postmodernism
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Michael Silverstein (12 September 1945 – 17 July 2020)[2] was an American linguist who served as the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago.[3] He was a theoretician of semiotics and linguistic anthropology. Over the course of his career he created an original synthesis of research on the semiotics of communication, the sociology of interaction, Russian formalist literary theory, linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, early anthropological linguistics and structuralist grammatical theory, together with his own theoretical contributions, yielding a comprehensive account of the semiotics of human communication and its relation to culture. He presented the developing results of this project annually from 1970 until his death in a course entitled "Language in Culture".[4] Among other achievements, he was instrumental in introducing the semiotic terminology of Charles Sanders Peirce, including especially the notion of indexicality, into the linguistic and anthropological literature; with coining the terms metapragmatics and metasemantics[5] in drawing attention to the central importance of metasemiotic phenomena for any understanding of language or social life; and with introducing language ideology as a field of study.[6] His works are noted for their terminological complexity and technical difficulty.[7]
^Stephen O. Murray. 1998. American Sociolinguistics: Theorists and Theory Groups. John Benjamins, pp. 236–37.
^"Michael Silverstein, groundbreaking anthropologist and linguist, 1945-2020". uchicago news. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
^"Michael Silverstein". University of Chicago Department of Linguistics. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
^"Michael Silverstein, groundbreaking anthropologist and linguist, 1945-2020". uchicago news. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
^Jonathan Yovel and Elizabeth E. Mertz. "Metalinguistic Awareness". Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights. Ed. an-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren, Jan Blommaert, Chris Bulcaen,. 2010. p. 252-3
^Blount, Ben G. 1995. Language, Culture, and Society: A book of Readings. Waveland Press. Inc. pp. 106-7
^""Linguistic Relativity, Whorf, Linguistic Anthropology"". Society for Linguistic Anthropology. 1 September 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2020. "Over an extensive set of publications not designed for the casual reader, Michael Silverstein ... has brought Whorf to bear in formulating one of the key research paradigms of contemporary linguistic anthropology, the investigation of the linguistic and social concomitants of linguistic ideologies."
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