Michael Silverstein
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Silverstein is involved.
2012 Does the autonomy of linguistics rest on the autonomy of syntax? An alternative framing of our object of study Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren, Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 15–38 | Article
The presenting semiotic fact of language is its thoroughly indexical character, its contextualization as the mediating text or message in interactional context, necessitating the methods of the interpretative social and behavioral sciences. Farthest removed from this as an object of study is its… read more
2010 Society, polity, and language community: An enlightenment trinity in anthropological perspective Journal of Language and Politics 9:3, pp. 339–363 | Article
How do the social institutional agglomerations we call societies interact with levels of political groupness up to and including states and beyond? In the modern First World and more widely, the post-Lockean Enlightenment has brought denotational language itself to the fore as the salient vehicle… read more
1997 Commentary: Achieving adequacy and commitment in pragmatics Conflict and violence in pragmatic research, Briggs, Charles L. (ed.), pp. 625–633 | Article
If the thread that connects these papers one to another is the theme of violence and social struggle, they are at the same time quite diverse in approaches and subject matters. So diverse, in fact, that in order to see how they present material on violence and social struggle, we must begin by… read more
1995 From the meaning of meaning to the empires of the mind: Ogden’s orthological english Constructing languages and publics, Gal, Susan and Kathryn A. Woolard (eds.), pp. 185–195 | Article
1992 The uses and utility of ideology: Some reflections Language ideologies, Schieffelin, Bambi B., Paul V. Kroskrity and Kathryn A. Woolard (eds.), pp. 311–323 | Article
1992 Of nominatives and datives: universal grammar from the bottom up Advances in Role and Reference Grammar, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.), pp. 465–498 | Article
1992 The Indeterminancy of Contextualization: When Is Enough Enough? The Contextualization of Language, Auer, Peter and Aldo Di Luzio (eds.), pp. 55–76 | Article
1991 Problems of Sapir Historiography Historiographia Linguistica 18:1, pp. 181–204 | Review article
1986 Closing Statement New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality: Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1–3 October 1984), Cowan, William, Michael Foster and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 593–604 | Article
1986 The Diachrony of Sapir's Synchronic Linguistic Description New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality: Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1–3 October 1984), Cowan, William, Michael Foster and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 67–110 | Article