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