Michael Silverstein  

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Michael Silverstein (12 September 1945 – 17 July 2020) was an American linguist. He was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago.

Publications

• 1976a. "Hierarchy of features and ergativity." In Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages (R.M.W. Dixon, ed.), 112–171.
• 1976b. "Shifters, linguistic categories and cultural description."
• 1977. "Cultural prerequisites to grammatical analysis." In Linguistics and Anthropology (M. Saville-Troike, ed.), 139-51. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
• 1979. "Language structure and linguistic ideology." In The Elements: A Parasession on Linguistic Units and Levels (R. Cline, W. Hanks, and C. Hofbauer, eds.), 193-247. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
• 1981a. "Case marking and the nature of language." Australian Journal of Linguistics, 227-244.
• 1981b. "The limits of awareness."
• 1985a. "Language and the culture of gender: at the intersection of structure, usage, and ideology." In Semiotic Mediation: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives (E. Mertz and R. Parmentier, eds.), 219-259. Orlando: Academic Press.
• 1985b. "The functional stratification of language and ontogenesis."
• 1987a. "The three faces of function: preliminaries to a psychology of language."
• 1987b. "Cognitive implications of a referential hierarchy."
• 1987c. "Monoglot 'Standard' in America: standardization and metaphors of linguistic hegemony."
• 1992. "The indeterminacy of contextualization: when is enough enough?" In The Contextualization of Language (Auer, Peter & Aldo Di Luzio, eds.), 55-76.
• 1992. "Of nominatives and datives: universal grammar from the bottom up."
• 1993. "Metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function." In Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics (J. Lucy, ed.), 33-58.
• 1996. Natural Histories of Discourse (editor, with Greg Urban). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Template:ISBN.
  • Includes chapter, "The Secret Life of Texts," 81-105.
• 1997a. "Encountering languages and languages of encounter in North American ethnohistory."
• 1997b. "The Improvisational Performance of Culture in Realtime Discursive Practice". In Creativity in Performance (R. K. Sawyer, ed.). Greenwich, CT: Ablex Publishing Corp., 265-312.
• 1998. "Contemporary transformations of local linguistic communities." Annual Review of Anthropology.
• 2000. "Whorfianism and the linguistic imagination of nationality." In Regimes of Language.
• 2003a. "Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life."
• 2003b. "The Whens and Wheres—as well as Hows—of Ethnolinguistic Recognition."
• 2003c. Talking Politics: The substance of style from Abe to "W". Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press. Template:ISBN.
• 2004a. "'Cultural' Concepts and the Language-Culture Nexus". Current Anthropology 45(5), 621-652.
• 2004b. "Boasian cosmographic anthropology and the sociocentric component of mind." In Significant Others: Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in Anthropology" (Richard Handler, ed.), 131-157.
• 2005a. "Axes of Evals: Token versus Type Interdiscursivity." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15.1:6-22.
• 2005b. "Languages/Cultures are Dead! Long Live the Linguistic-Cultural!" In D. Segal & S. Yanagisako, eds., Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press, 99-125. Template:ISBN.
• 2005c. "The Poetics of Politics: 'Theirs' and 'Ours'."
• 2006a. "How we look from where we stand" (review article).
• 2006b. "Old wine, new ethnographic lexicography." Annual Review of Anthropology.