マイケル・シルヴァスティン
おもな業績

1976a. "Hierarchy of features and ergativity." In Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages (R.M.W. Dixon, ed.), 112–171.
1976b. "Shifters, linguistic categories and cultural description."
1979. "Language structure and linguistic ideology." In The Elements: A Parasession on Linguistic Units and Levels (R. Cline, W. Hanks, and C. Hofbauer, eds.), 193-247. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
1981a. "Case marking and the nature of language." Australian Journal of Linguistics, 227-244.
1981b. "The limits of awareness."
1985a. "Language and the culture of gender: at the intersection of structure, usage, and ideology." In Semiotic Mediation: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives (E. Mertz and R. Parmentier, eds.), 219-259. Orlando: Academic Press.
1985b. "The functional stratification of language and ontogenesis."
1987a. "The three faces of function: preliminaries to a psychology of language."
1987b. "Cognitive implications of a referential hierarchy."
1987c. "Monoglot 'Standard' in America: standardization and metaphors of linguistic hegemony."
1992. "The indeterminacy of contextualization: when is enough enough?" In The Contextualization of Language (Auer, Peter & Aldo Di Luzio, eds.), 55-76.
1992. "Of nominatives and datives: universal grammar from the bottom up."
1993. "Metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function." In Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics (J. Lucy, ed.), 33-58.
1996. Natural Histories of Discourse (editor, with Greg Urban). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-8223-3474-7.
Includes chapter, "The Secret Life of Texts," 81-105.
1997a. "Encountering languages and languages of encounter in North American ethnohistory."
1997b. "The Improvisational Performance of Culture in Realtime Discursive Practice". In Creativity in Performance (R. K. Sawyer, ed.). Greenwich, CT: Ablex Publishing Corp., 265-312.
1998. "Contemporary transformations of local linguistic communities." Annual Review of Anthropology.
2000. "Whorfianism and the linguistic imagination of nationality." In Regimes of Language.
2003a. "Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life."
2003b. "The Whens and Wheres—as well as Hows—of Ethnolinguistic Recognition."
2003c. Talking Politics: The substance of style from Abe to “W”[リンク切れ]. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press. ISBN 0-9717575-5-0.
2004a. "'Cultural' Concepts and the Language-Culture Nexus". Current Anthropology 45(5), 621-652.
2004b. "Boasian cosmographic anthropology and the sociocentric component of mind." In Significant Others: Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in Anthropology" (Richard Handler, ed.), 131-157.
2005a. "Axes of Evals: Token versus Type Interdiscursivity." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15.1:6-22.
2005b. "Languages/Cultures are Dead! Long Live the Linguistic-Cultural!" In D. Segal & S. Yanagisako, eds., Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press, 99-125. ISBN 0-8223-3474-7.
2005c. "The Poetics of Politics: 'Theirs' and 'Ours'."
2006a. "How we look from where we stand" (review article).
2006b. "Old wine, new ethnographic lexicography." Annual Review of Anthropology.
シルヴァスティンの業績は、人類学、言語学、社会言語学において、理論上、概念上のシフトを引き起こし、言語イデオロギーがひとつの研究分野として確立される上で大きな影響力をもったことである。それは言語的相対論（いわゆるサピア＝ウォーフの仮説）への新たな関心につながったからである。また、シルヴァスティンの業績は、チョムスキー派の言語概念への批判に新たな観点を加え、社会における言語の研究に、批判的かつ政治的に微妙な潮流を起こし、特に言語政策、言語計画、言語教育の研究に影響を及ぼした[要出典]。その他、オーストラリアや南北アメリカにおける先住民の諸言語の研究にも取り組んでいる。