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Birth Name:

Michael Silverstein

Male

Birth Date:

Wed, Sep 12, 1945

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Age:

79

Zodiac Sign:

Virgo

Astrology Data:

Sun

19°

Vir

31'

About Michael Silverstein

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. 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.

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External Links:

• Michael Silversteins's University of Chicago home page

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Michael Silverstein: Sun 19 Virgo, Moon 26 Scorpio, Mercury 3 Virgo, Venus 15 Leo, Mars 2 Cancer, Jupiter 3 Libra, Saturn 22 Cancer, Uranus 17 Gemini, Neptune 5 Libra, Pluto 11 Leo, Sun Square Uranus, Sun Sextile Saturn, Mercury Sextile Mars, Mercury Semi Sextile Jupiter, Venus Semi Square Mars, Venus Sextile Uranus, Venus Conjunct Pluto, Mars Square Jupiter, Mars Square Neptune, Jupiter Conjunct Neptune

Categories related to Michael Silverstein: Harvard University alumni, 2020 deaths, American Jews, September 12 births, MacArthur Fellows, University of Chicago faculty, Linguists from the United States, 1945 births, Stuyvesant High School alumni, American semioticians, Pragmaticists, Linguists of Australian aboriginal languages, Linguists of Penutian languages