Professor Dan Sperber FBA
Cognition, communication and culture in an evolutionary perspective; anthropological fieldwork in Ethiopia, theoretical and experimental work in linguistic pragmatics and in cognitive psychology
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2008
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Psychology
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
- Website
- http://www.dan.sperber.fr/
Current post
Directeur de Recherche émérite au Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris; Professor, Departments of Cognitive Science and of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Terttu Nevalainen FBA
The history of the English language, particularly of the Early Modern English period; historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; corpus linguistics; design and compilation of digital text corpora
Professor John Rickford FBA
Theoretical and descriptive aspects of variation and change in Caribbean Anglophone creoles and American vernaculars, especially African American English, and their implications for educational reform and criminal justice
Professor Harald Clahsen FBA
Psycholinguistics; first and second language acquisition, developmental and acquired language disorders, the experimental study of language processing in different languages
