Michael Silverstein

Biographic Data

ID79560
NAMEMichael Silverstein
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMESilverstein
SIGNATURESILVERSTEIN M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chicago
ORCID0000-0001-5497-3578
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS107
TOTAL CITATIONS1633
AUTHOR COUNT107
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX13

  • The Way the System is Working Out, It's Not Working at All”: Parent Perspectives on Social Determinants of Health and ADHD Symptoms in Preschoolers

    Open AccessAndrea E Spencer, Tierney P Mcmahon et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2025

    Adverse social determinants of health (SDH) are associated with higher risk for ADHD and worse prognosis. Understanding the reason for this association is critical for planning interventions to reduce inequities in ADHD outcomes. To answer this question, we conducted a qualitative study with parents of preschoolers aged 3-5 years old with ADHD symptoms, recruited from a safety net hospital, to understand their perspectives on the relationship bet…

  • The uses and utility of ideology: Some reflections

    Open AccessMichael SilversteinARTICLEPragmatics Quarterly Publication…2022

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  • If he doesn’t buy in, it’s a waste of time”: Perspectives from diverse parents and adolescents on engaging children in ADHD treatment

    Open AccessNicole Zolli, J Krystel Loubeau et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2022

  • Screening for Colorectal Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

    Open AccessUS Preventive Services Task Force, Karina W Davidson et al.ARTICLEJAMA2021

    Importance Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death for both men and women, with an estimated 52 980 persons in the US projected to die of colorectal cancer in 2021. Colorectal cancer is most frequently diagnosed among persons aged 65 to 74 years. It is estimated that 10.5% of new colorectal cancer cases occur in persons younger than 50 years. Incidence of colorectal cancer (specifically adenocarcinoma) in adults aged 40 to 49…

  • The dialectics of indexical semiosis: Scaling Up and Out From the “Actual” to the “Virtual

    Michael SilversteinARTICLEInternational Journal of the…2021Cited by: 5References: 15

    Conventional indexicality is semiotically effective when regimented by its meta-indexical (or “metapragmatic”) interpretant, a conceptual scheme presumed upon by participants in communication that determines the categories of possibility for a relevant “here-and-now” of indexically signaled co-presence, just as, conversely, such an interpretant is an emergent consequence of the sign’s pointing to its object. In the more general case of non-denota…

  • Coda

    Open AccessMichael SilversteinARTICLELanguage in Society2021

    These interesting situations in which generics play a key role in interactional pragmatics sparked my memory of solid geometry and spherical trigonometry class at Stuyvesant High School in the early 1960s. Each morning our instructor, the somewhat irascible Mr. Burns, would start off by asking a question on the day's material, calling for a response by '[student surname]'. Stuyvesant, in those days an all-male institution, functioned, like prep s…

  • Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past by Andrea L. Smith and Anna Eisenstein

    Michael SilversteinARTICLEBiography2018

    Reviewed by: Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past by Andrea L. Smith and Anna Eisenstein Michael Silverstein (bio) Andrea L. Smith and Anna Eisenstein. Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past. U of Nebraska P, 2016,xvi + 190 pp. ISBN 978-0803290587, $30.00. Among anthropologists, memory ethnography—the reconstructive description of a more vibrantly functioning sociocultural world of the p…

  • Forty years of speaking (of) the same (object) language – sans le savoir

    Michael SilversteinARTICLELangage et société2017

    Chacun des termes « sociolinguistique » et « anthropologie linguistique » suggère une orientation vers des disciplines d’encadrement différentes : la linguistique ou l’anthropologie, selon le cas. Pourtant, nous devons garder en mémoire que durant les quarante voire cinquante dernières années, l’objet de préoccupation scientifique de ces deux « entreprises » a été la plupart du temps le même : la corrélation entre la forme discursive, intermédiai…

  • Patient navigation for depressed mothers in Head Start: A pilot study of intervention mechanism

    Open AccessMichael Silverstein, Yaminette Diaz-Linhart et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2017Cited by: 2References: 14

    We sought to assess potential mechanisms of action of a patient navigation intervention in Head Start, designed to help depressed mothers engage with mental health care. We employed mixed methods, linking qualitative interviews (n = 21) to a randomized intervention pilot (n = 47). Early in follow-up, navigated mothers had lower mean depressive symptom scores than non-navigated mothers (9.61 vs. 12.95, p = 0.03). These differences attenuated but p…

  • The Fieldwork Encounter and the Colonized Voice of Indigeneity

    Michael SilversteinARTICLERepresentations2017Cited by: 4

    This essay follows the indexical (context-indicating) clues of linguistic form in spoken Kiksht (Wasco-Wishram Chinookan) and reconstructs the emerging poetic or metrical structures of a long-ago Kiksht-mediated encounter during anthropological linguistic fieldwork, memorialized in a published text. In this way we can hear something of the voice of a Native American speaker coming to grips with the impact of social and cultural change in the Amer…

  • Forty years of speaking (of) the same (object) language - sans le savoir

    Michael SilversteinARTICLELangage et société2017Cited by: 7

    Chacun des termes « sociolinguistique » et « anthropologie linguistique » suggère une orientation vers des disciplines d'encadrement différentes : la linguistique ou l'anthropologie, selon le cas. Pourtant, nous devons garder en mémoire que durant les quarante voire cinquante dernières années, l'objet de préoccupation scientifique de ces deux « entreprises » a été la plupart du temps le même : la corrélation entre la forme discursive, intermédiai…

  • Message, myopia, dystopia

    Open AccessMichael SilversteinARTICLEHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory2017Cited by: 6References: 2

    The workings of "message"-a coherent, brand-like biographical chronotope-as it has long-circulated in the specifically American system of fifty-state presidential electoral politics helps to explain the outcome of the 2016 vote. The agōn of positive and negative messaging about the respective candidates, Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump, seems to have worked, at the regional margins of an otherwise remarkably stable system, to the ultimate disadva…

  • Paul William Friedrich (1927-2016): Obituaries

    Open AccessMichael SilversteinARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2017References: 5

  • Use of Mobile Technology to Calm Upset Children: Associations With Social-Emotional Development

    Open AccessJenny S Radesky, Jenny Radesky et al.ARTICLEJAMA Pediatrics2016

  • Parent Perspectives on Their Mobile Technology Use: The Excitement and Exhaustion of Parenting While Connected

    Jenny S Radesky, Jenny Radesky et al.ARTICLEJournal of Developmental &…2016

  • Unusual Politics as Usual

    Open AccessMichael Lempert, Michael SilversteinARTICLEAnthropology News2016

  • Paul W. Friedrich

    Open AccessMichael SilversteinARTICLEAnthropology News2016

  • Postscript: Thinking about the “teleologies of structuralism

    Open AccessMichael SilversteinARTICLEHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory2016Cited by: 3

    The double or duplex character of language was a leitmotif of intellectual struggle for Saussure throughout his career; it runs through decades of notes for unfinished, unrealized projects on linguistic theory, the theory of the linguistic sign as it functions within a system of such that moves in its own dimension of temporal continuity. In this intellectual struggle-never quite reaching a satisfying telos, if you will, even in the posthumous Co…

  • Addressing Social Determinants of Health at Well Child Care Visits: A Cluster RCT

    Arvin Garg, Sarah Toy et al.ARTICLEPEDIATRICS2015

    OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of a clinic-based screening and referral system (Well Child Care, Evaluation, Community Resources, Advocacy, Referral, Education [WE CARE]) on families' receipt of community-based resources for unmet basic needs. METHODS: We conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial at 8 urban community health centers, recruiting mothers of healthy infants. In the 4 WE CARE clinics, mothers completed a self-report screening…

  • Commentary: Achieving adequacy and commitment in pragmatics

    Open AccessMichael SilversteinARTICLEPragmatics Quarterly Publication…2015Cited by: 2References: 2

    If the thread that connects these papers one to another is the theme of violence and social struggle, they are at the same time quite diverse in approaches and subject matters. So diverse, in fact, that in order to see how they present material on violence and social struggle, we must begin by situating the variety of sociocultural material they bring to our attention in the story-lines, as it were, of their respective approaches. This grouping, …

  • How language communities intersect: Is "superdiversity" an incremental or transformative condition

    Open AccessMichael SilversteinARTICLELanguage & Communication2015Cited by: 23References: 11

  • What's Cookin

    Open AccessMichael SilversteinARTICLEHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory2015Cited by: 2References: 3

    Comment on Palmié, Stephan. 2013. The cooking of history: How not to study Afro-Cuban religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

  • Infant Self-Regulation and Early Childhood Media Exposure

    Jenny S Radesky, Jenny Radesky et al.ARTICLEPEDIATRICS2014

    OBJECTIVES: Examine prospective associations between parent-reported early childhood self-regulation problems and media exposure (television and video viewing) at 2 years. We hypothesized that children with poor self-regulation would consume more media, possibly as a parent coping strategy. METHODS: We used data from 7450 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort. When children were 9 months and 2 years old, parents complete…

  • Patterns of Mobile Device Use by Caregivers and Children During Meals in Fast Food Restaurants

    Jenny S Radesky, Jenny Radesky et al.ARTICLEPEDIATRICS2014

    BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Mobile devices are a ubiquitous part of American life, yet how families use this technology has not been studied. We aimed to describe naturalistic patterns of mobile device use by caregivers and children to generate hypotheses about its effects on caregiver-child interaction. METHODS: Using nonparticipant observational methods, we observed 55 caregivers eating with 1 or more young children in fast food restaurants in a…

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology

    Open AccessMark Aronoff, R M W Dixon et al.BOOKCambridge Handbook of Linguistic…2014

    The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories, such as the nature and function of language systems, the relationship between language and social interaction, an…