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 Miriam Meyerhoff FBA
The intersection of language variation and change, language contact and language documentation; the sociolinguistics of languages in Vanuatu.
Professor Bill Hardcastle FBA
Theoretical and clinical phonetics and phonology, particularly experimental studies of speech production processes in typical and disordered speech
