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Alessandro Duranti publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alessandro Duranti sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 101 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Alessandro Duranti D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alessandro Duranti sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1999 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Alessandro Duranti is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research work spans multiple fields in the arts and humanities as well as social sciences, with a notable focus on language and linguistics, music, philosophy, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics addressed in Duranti's publications include:

  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
  • Digital Communication and Language
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Musicology and Musical Analysis

Duranti's research appears in several specialized publication venues. Frequent venues include:

  • Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
  • Annual Review of Anthropology
  • The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
  • Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory
  • Calidoscópio

Recent papers by Duranti demonstrate a range of interests within linguistic anthropology and related fields:

  • "The Semiotics of Cooperation", 2022, Annual Review of Anthropology
  • "If it is language that speaks, what do speakers do? Confronting Heidegger's language ontology", 2023, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
  • "Language and Creativity: Improvisation", 2020, The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
  • "Not being boring and other challenges for anthropologists as popular writers", 2020, Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Collaborative work features several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Nicco A. La Mattina
  • Jason Throop
  • Matthew McCoy
  • Rachel George

Duranti has been recognized through notable awards such as:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1999

Best Publications

  • Linguistic anthropology : a reader

    Alessandro Duranti

  • Rethinking Context: Language As An Interactive Phenomenon

    Alessandro Duranti;Charles Goodwin

  • The Handbook of Language Socialization

    Alessandro Duranti;Elinor Ochs;Bambi B. Schieffelin

  • From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village

    Alessandro Duranti

  • The audience as co-author: An introduction

    Alessandro Duranti

  • Rethinking Context: An Introduction

    Alessandro Duranti;Charles Goodwin

  • Husserl, intersubjectivity and anthropology

    Alessandro Duranti

  • Agency in Language

    Alessandro Duranti

  • A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology

    Alessandro Duranti

  • Universal and Culture-Specific Properties of Greetings

    Alessandro Duranti

  • Linguistic Anthropology: Acknowledgments

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  • Left-Dislocation in Italian Conversation

    Alessandro Duranti;Elinor Ochs

  • Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon

    Zdenek Salzmann;Alessandro Duranti;Charles Goodwin

  • Language and Bodies in Social Space: Samoan Ceremonial Greetings

    Alessandro Duranti

  • Language as Culture in U.S. Anthropology

    Alessandro Duranti

  • Transcripts, Like Shadows on a Wall

    Alessandro Duranti

  • On the Object Relation in Bantu

    Larry M. Hyman;Alessandro Duranti

  • Intentions, language, and social action in a Samoan context

    Alessandro Duranti

  • Truth and Intentionality: An Ethnographic Critique

    Alessandro Duranti

  • Key terms in language and culture

    Alessandro Duranti

  • The Samoan fono, a sociolinguistic study

    Alessandro Duranti

  • Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon

    James F. Weiner;Alessandro Duranti;Charles Goodwin

Frequent Co-Authors

Elinor Ochs
Elinor Ochs University of California, Los Angeles
Charles Goodwin
Charles Goodwin University of California, Los Angeles
Monica Heller
Monica Heller University of Toronto
Walt Wolfram
Walt Wolfram North Carolina State University
Paul Drew
Paul Drew University of York
Douglas W. Maynard
Douglas W. Maynard University of Wisconsin–Madison
Teun A. van Dijk
Teun A. van Dijk Pompeu Fabra University
Larry M. Hyman
Larry M. Hyman University of California, Berkeley
Kendall A. King
Kendall A. King University of Minnesota

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