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Politeness 1983 2026 1997 2011 4.3k
  1. Politeness (1987)
    Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks
  2. WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.] (2010)
    Asifa Majid, Stephen C. Levinson MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society)
  3. Pragmatics (1983)
    Stephen C. Levinson Cambridge University Press eBooks
  4. Presumptive meanings: The theory of generalized conversational implicature (2000)
    Stephen C. Levinson Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
  5. The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science (2009)
    Nicholas Evans, Stephen C. Levinson Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  6. Presumptive Meanings (2000)
    Stephen C. Levinson The MIT Press eBooks
  7. Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation (2009)
    Tanya Stivers, N. J. Enfield et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  8. Rethinking Linguistic Relativity (1998)
    Jill Brody, John J. Gumperz et al. Language
  9. Activity types and language (1979)
    Stephen C. Levinson Linguistics
  10. Turn-taking in Human Communication – Origins and Implications for Language Processing (2015)
    Stephen C. Levinson Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  11. Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language (2015)
    Stephen C. Levinson, Francisco Torreira Frontiers in Psychology
  12. Multimodal Language Processing in Human Communication (2019)
    Judith Holler, Stephen C. Levinson Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  13. Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems (2015)
    Mark Dingemanse, Seán G. Roberts et al. PLoS ONE

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Jerome S. Bruner 4274 3788 13368 5905 201 41.2k
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