Robyn Carston
{{Short description|New Zealand linguist and academic}}
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University College London
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Robyn Anne Carston, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA|size=100%|sep=,}} 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.{{cite web|title=Prof Robyn Carston|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/people/profiles/academic-staff/robyn-carston|website=Division of Psychology and Language Sciences|publisher=University College London|accessdate=22 July 2016|year=2016}}{{cite web|title=Robyn Carston|url=http://www.hf.uio.no/csmn/english/people/research-coordinators/carston/|website=Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature|publisher=University of Oslo|accessdate=22 July 2016|date=26 June 2014}}{{cite web|title=Prof Robyn Carston|url=http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=RACAR49|website=Institutional Research Information Service|publisher=University College London|accessdate=22 July 2016|year=2016}}
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) with Distinction in Phonetics and Linguistics in 1980. She remained at UCL to undertake postgraduate research under the supervision of Deirdre Wilson. and got her first job as a lecturer there in 1983. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1994. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Pragmatics and the explicit/implicit distinction".{{cite thesis|last1=Carston|first1=Robyn Anne|title=Pragmatics and the explicit/implicit distinction|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.300147|website=E-Thesis Online Service|publisher=The British Library|accessdate=22 July 2016|year=1998|type=Ph.D }}
Academic career
Carston has taught linguistics at University College London since 1983.{{cite web |title=Professor Robyn Carston |url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-robyn-carston |website=British Academy |accessdate=24 June 2018 |language=en}} Since January 1999, she has been an editor of the peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal Mind & Language.{{cite web |title=Mind & Language |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14680017/homepage/editorialboard.html |website=Wiley Online Library |doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0017 |accessdate=24 June 2018}} In January 2005, she was appointed Professor of Linguistics. From 2007 to 2017, she was additionally a senior researcher at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo. Since August 2017, she has been President of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
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.{{cite web|title=British Academy announces new President and elects 66 new Fellows|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/british-academy-announces-new-president-and-elects-66-new-fellows|website=The British Academy|accessdate=18 July 2016|date=15 July 2016}}{{cite web|title=Professors Robyn Carston, Nilli Lavie, and Sophie Scott elected as Fellows of the British Academy|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/pals-news/british-academy-fellows-robyn-carston-sophie-scott-nilli-lavie|website=Division of Psychology and Language Sciences|publisher=University College London|accessdate=22 July 2016|date=18 July 2016}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Carston |editor1-first=Robyn |editor2-last=Uchida |editor2-first=Seiji |title=Relevance theory: applications and implications |date=1998 |publisher=Benjamins |location=Amsterdam |isbn=978-1556193309}}
- {{cite book |last1=Carston |first1=Robyn |title=Thoughts and utterances: the pragmatics of explicit communication |date=2002 |publisher=Blackwell |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0631214885}}
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Category:Linguists from New Zealand
Category:Philosophers of language
Category:Academics of University College London
Category:University of Canterbury alumni
Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:Alumni of University College London