Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Encyclopedia
Katarzyna Jaszczolt (ˈjɑːʃ.tʃoʊt), D.Phil. (Oxon), PhD (Cantab), is Professor of Linguistics
and Philosophy of Language
at the Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics at Newnham College, Cambridge
.
She is the author of a theory of discourse interpretation, Default Semantics, in which she breaks away from the tradition of modelling utterance meaning by means of a sentence-based proposition and proposes instead so-called merger representations which combine the output of various sources and processes leading to the recovery of speaker meaning, shifting compositionality from the level of syntactic structures to the level of the merger. She is General Editor of a book series Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought, Oxford University Press
(with Louis de Saussure) and member of several editorial boards of linguistics journals, including Journal of Pragmatics
, Intercultural Pragmatics
and Belgian Journal of Linguistics, and book series, including Studies in Pragmatics, Elsevier. From 1996 to 2008 she was Principal Editor of a book series Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Elsevier
. She is also a member of the Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain
(LAGB).
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
and Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of language
Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for analytic philosophers is concerned with four central problems: the nature of meaning, language use, language cognition, and the relationship between language...
at the Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics at Newnham College, Cambridge
Newnham College, Cambridge
Newnham College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1871 by Henry Sidgwick, and was the second Cambridge college to admit women after Girton College...
.
She is the author of a theory of discourse interpretation, Default Semantics, in which she breaks away from the tradition of modelling utterance meaning by means of a sentence-based proposition and proposes instead so-called merger representations which combine the output of various sources and processes leading to the recovery of speaker meaning, shifting compositionality from the level of syntactic structures to the level of the merger. She is General Editor of a book series Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought, Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
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(with Louis de Saussure) and member of several editorial boards of linguistics journals, including Journal of Pragmatics
Journal of Pragmatics
The Journal of Pragmatics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. The Journal of Pragmatics was established in 1977 by Jacob L. Mey and Hartmut Haberland . The journal has an impact factor of 0.798. The editors in chief are Jonathan Culpeper and Neal R. Norrick ....
, Intercultural Pragmatics
Intercultural Pragmatics
Intercultural Pragmatics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Mouton de Gruyter. It covers both theoretical and practical aspects of pragmatics in an intercultural context, aiming at promoting discussion among researchers within different disciplines, such as theoretical and...
and Belgian Journal of Linguistics, and book series, including Studies in Pragmatics, Elsevier. From 1996 to 2008 she was Principal Editor of a book series Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Elsevier
Elsevier
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. She is also a member of the Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain
Linguistics Association of Great Britain
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain is a British linguistics association. They have published the Journal of Linguistics since 1964....
(LAGB).
Selected publications
Her books include:- Representing Time: An Essay on Temporality as Modality. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Default Semantics: Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication. 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning in Language and Discourse. 2002. London: Longman.
- Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions: Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription. 1999. Oxford: Elsevier Science.