Nationality New Zealand Discipline Linguistics | Doctoral advisor Deirdre Wilson Academic advisor Deirdre Wilson | |
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Title Professor of Linguistics Thesis title Pragmatics and the explicit/implicit distinction (1986) Sub discipline Pragmatics
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Philosophy of language Books Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication, Language and Cognition Alma maters University of Canterbury, Victoria University of Wellington People also search for Deirdre Wilson, Noel Burton-Roberts, Seiji Uchida, Belén Soria | ||
Robyn Anne Carston, FBA is a New Zealand linguist and academic, who specialises in pragmatics, semantics, and the philosophy of language. Since 2015, she has been Professor of Linguistics at University College London.
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Early life and education
Carston was born in New Zealand. She studied English Literature at the University of Canterbury, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) 1975. She then studied for an honours degree in linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in 1976. She moved to England to study at University College London (UCL), graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) in Phonetics and Linguistics in 1980. She remained at UCL to undertake postgraduate research under the supervision of Deirdre Wilson. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1986. Her doctoral thesis was tilted "Pragmatics and the explicit/implicit distinction".
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.