Michael

Michael Silverstein

#1,194
Most Influential Person Now

American linguist

Michael Silverstein's Academic­Influence.com Rankings

Michael Silverstein
Communications
#88
World Rank
#185
Historical Rank
#48
USA Rank
Linguistics
#28
World Rank
#40
Historical Rank
#17
USA Rank
communications Degrees
Download Badge
  • Communications

Michael Silverstein's Degrees

Why Is Michael Silverstein Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Michael Silverstein was an American linguist. He was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago. 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." 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 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. His works are noted for their terminological complexity and technical difficulty.

(See a Problem?)

Michael Silverstein's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
189019001910192019301940195019601970198019902000201020200500100015002000250030003500400045005000

Published Works

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Metadata from Crossref logo

Other Resources About Michael Silverstein

What Schools Are Affiliated With Michael Silverstein?

Michael Silverstein is affiliated with the following schools: