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 Martin Maiden FBA
Southern Europe Italy Linguistics Romance Eastern Europe including Russia Romania
Professor Miriam Meyerhoff FBA
The intersection of language variation and change, language contact and language documentation; the sociolinguistics of languages in Vanuatu.
Professor Jenny Cheshire FBA
Sociolinguistics; language change in multilingual urban centres, adolescent language, language & education, syntactic & discourse variation, syntax of spoken English.
