Michael Silverstein
Impact in
- Linguistics and Language top 0.05%
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Language and Linguistics top 0.05%
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Papers in
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- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies 16
- Historical Linguistics and Language Studies 14
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation 5
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- Linguistic Variation and Morphology 25
- Multilingual Education and Policy 13
- Co-authors
- Jonathan Boyarin (1 shared paper)Greg Urban (1 shared paper)Michael Lempert (2 shared papers)Bruce Rigsby (1 shared paper)Robert A. Hall (1 shared paper)William Dwight Whitney (2 shared papers)Ellen Peters (4 shared papers)E.F.K. Koerner (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- American Anthropologist (7 papers)Language (5 papers)Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (5 papers)International Journal of American Linguistics (4 papers)Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) (3 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesSweden
In The Last Decade
Michael Silverstein
95 papers receiving 6.5k citations
Michael Silverstein's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 143
- Linguistics and Language 4.1k
- Language and Linguistics 4.4k
- Literature and Literary Theory 2.1k
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 1.2k
- Anthropology 802
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Co-authors
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All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 99 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 2034 |
| 2 | Natural Histories of Discourse. Hit paper breakdown → | 1997 | 1201 |
| 3 | Shifters, linguistic categories, and cultural description Hit paper breakdown → | 1976 | 776 |
| 4 | Metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function Hit paper breakdown → | 1993 | 728 |
| 5 | 1985 | 407 | |
| 6 | “Cultural” Concepts and the Language‐Culture Nexus Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 385 |
| 7 | 1998 | 311 | |
| 8 | 2005 | 285 | |
| 9 | 2008 | 184 | |
| 10 | 1992 | 158 | |
| 11 | 1981 | 151 | |
| 12 | 2003 | 133 | |
| 13 | 2015 | 114 | |
| 14 | 1998 | 103 | |
| 15 | 2006 | 101 | |
| 16 | Creatures of politics media, message, and the American presidency | 2012 | 99 |
| 17 | 2009 | 95 | |
| 18 | Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe to "W" | 2003 | 78 |
| 19 | 2018 | 77 | |
| 20 | 1996 | 63 |
About Michael Silverstein
Michael Silverstein is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy and Literature and Literary Theory, having authored 99 papers that have together received 8.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (25 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (16 papers), Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (14 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (13 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 papers), Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (8 papers), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Linguistics and Language (4.1k citations), Language and Linguistics (4.4k citations), Literature and Literary Theory (2.1k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (1.2k citations) and Anthropology (802 citations). Michael Silverstein has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Jonathan Boyarin, Greg Urban, Michael Lempert, Bruce Rigsby, Robert A. Hall, William Dwight Whitney, Ellen Peters, E.F.K. Koerner, David M. Markowitz and Brittany Shoots‐Reinhard. Their work appears in journals such as American Anthropologist, Language, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, International Journal of American Linguistics and Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA).
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