Alison Hall       

UCL Linguistics, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF, U.K.

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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, UCL, 2009-present.

Postdoctoral fellow, Institut Nicod, Paris, 2010-11.

 

Research interests:

Theoretical pragmatics, semantics, philosophy of language, in particular: the explicit-implicit distinction; unarticulated constituents; ‘subsentential’ utterances and ellipsis; lexical pragmatics and theories of word meaning and concepts.

 

Published papers:

In press.     (with Robyn Carston) Implicature and explicature. In H.-J. Schmid and D. Geeraerts (eds) Cognitive Pragmatics, Vol. 4 of Handbooks in Pragmatics. Prepublication version.

In press.     Relevance theory, semantic content and pragmatic enrichment. In A. Capone, F. Lo Piparo and M. Carapezza (eds) Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy. Prepublication version.

2009.          Subsentential utterances, ellipsis, and pragmatic enrichment. Pragmatics & Cognition 17(2): 222-50. Prepublication version.

2009.          Semantic compositionality and truth-conditional content. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109(3): 353-64. (Proceedings of the Graduate Sessions at the 2008 Joint Session.) DOI link.  

2008.          Free enrichment or hidden indexicals? Mind & Language 23(4): 426-56. DOI link.

2007.          Do discourse connectives encode concepts or procedures? Lingua 117(1): 149-74. DOI link.

 

PhD Thesis:

Free Pragmatic Processes and Explicit Utterance Content. UCL, 2009. Abstract and table of contents.

 

Teaching 2011-12:

PLING103 Semantics and Pragmatics MA module.

PLIN2003 Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics.

PLING199 MA dissertation.