Michael Silverstein: podcast appearances and interviews

Michael Silverstein was an American linguist and semiotician who served as the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago. His work focused on developing an original synthesis of research across various disciplines, including the semiotics of communication, the sociology of interaction, Russian formalist literary theory, linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, early anthropological linguistics, and structuralist grammatical theory. Silverstein's research provided a comprehensive account of the semiotics of human communication and its relation to culture. He was known for presenting the results of his research annually from 1970 until his death in a course titled