Stephen C. Levinson is director of the Language and Cognition group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

He has written extensively on pragmatics, and in particular, furthered the work of Paul Grice on conversational implicature. He describes his theories as being 'under the Gricean umbrella'.

Notable Publications

(2000)Presumptive Meanings: The theory of generalized conversational implicature. MIT.

External links

• Levinson's MPI homepage
• List of publications
• Review of 'Presumptive Meanings'

Linguists