Professor Robyn Carston FBA
The human capacity for ostensive communication; its relation to linguistic competence and theory of mind; the semantics and pragmatics of word meaning; metaphorical and other non-literal uses of language
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology
Current post
Professor of Linguistics, University College London; Senior Researcher, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo
Past appointments
University College London Professor of Linguistics
1970 -
Other Foreign Institutions Senior Researcher, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo
1970 -
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Nick Chater FBA
The cognitive and social foundations of rationality & language; general principles of cognition; philosophical, economic & policy implications of cognitive science.
Professor Andreas Willi FBA
Historical and comparative grammar of Greek, Latin, and other ancient Indo-European languages; variationist linguistics of Ancient Greek (sociolects, dialects, literary registers); linguistic aspects of the cultural history of classical antiquity
