Biography:Robyn Carston
Professor Robyn Carston | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | New Zealand and British |
| Title | Professor of Linguistics |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Canterbury Victoria University of Wellington University College London |
| Thesis | Pragmatics and the explicit/implicit distinction (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Deirdre Wilson |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Pragmatics Semantics Philosophy of language |
Robyn Anne Carston, FBA is a linguist and academic, who specialises in pragmatics, semantics, and the philosophy of language. Since 2005, she has been Professor of Linguistics at University College London.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
Carston was born in New Zealand.[2] She studied English literature at the University of Canterbury, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) 1975.[3] She then studied for an honours degree in linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in 1976.[3] She moved to England to study at University College London (UCL), graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) with Distinction in Phonetics and Linguistics in 1980.[3] She remained at UCL to undertake postgraduate research under the supervision of Deirdre Wilson.[2][3] and got her first job as a lecturer there in 1983. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1994.[3] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Pragmatics and the explicit/implicit distinction".[4]
Academic career
Carston has taught linguistics at University College London since 1983.[1][5] Since January 1999, she has been an editor of the peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal Mind & Language.[3][6] In January 2005, she was appointed Professor of Linguistics.[3] From 2007 to 2017, she was additionally a senior researcher at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo.[3][5] Since August 2017, she has been President of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.[3]
Honours
In July 2016, Carston was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the UK's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.[7][8]
Selected works
- Carston, Robyn; Uchida, Seiji, eds (1998). Relevance theory: applications and implications. Amsterdam: Benjamins. ISBN 978-1556193309.
- Carston, Robyn (2002). Thoughts and utterances: the pragmatics of explicit communication. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631214885.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Prof Robyn Carston". University College London. 2016. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/people/profiles/academic-staff/robyn-carston. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Robyn Carston". University of Oslo. 26 June 2014. http://www.hf.uio.no/csmn/english/people/research-coordinators/carston/. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 "Prof Robyn Carston". University College London. 2016. http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=RACAR49. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ↑ Carston, Robyn Anne (1998). Pragmatics and the explicit/implicit distinction. E-Thesis Online Service (Ph.D). The British Library. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Professor Robyn Carston" (in en). https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-robyn-carston. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- ↑ "Mind & Language". https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14680017/homepage/editorialboard.html. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- ↑ "British Academy announces new President and elects 66 new Fellows". 15 July 2016. http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/british-academy-announces-new-president-and-elects-66-new-fellows. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ↑ "Professors Robyn Carston, Nilli Lavie, and Sophie Scott elected as Fellows of the British Academy". University College London. 18 July 2016. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/pals-news/british-academy-fellows-robyn-carston-sophie-scott-nilli-lavie. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
 |  |
