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45
Citations
15788
World Ranking
3749
National Ranking
639

Overview

Robyn Carston is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple interconnected disciplines, primarily within the arts and humanities as well as psychology.

The main fields of study for Robyn Carston include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Psychology

The subfields where Carston has contributed encompass:

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Philosophy
  • Social Psychology

Their work focuses on topics such as:

  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Education Practices and Challenges
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Robyn Carston's recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • "Polysemy: Pragmatics and sense conventions" (2020), published in Mind & Language
  • "Metaphor processing: Referring and predicating" (2023), published in Cognition
  • "Words: Syntactic structures and pragmatic meanings" (2022), published in Synthese
  • "The relevance of words and the language/communication divide" (2023), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Words and Roots - Polysemy and Allosemy - Communication and Language" (2024), published in Review of Philosophy and Psychology

Carston has published notably in these venues:

  • Synthese
  • Mind & Language
  • Cognition
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Review of Philosophy and Psychology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
  • Xinxin Yan
  • Bencie Woll
  • Margreet Vogelzang

Best Publications

  • Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication

    Robyn Carston

  • Thoughts and Utterances

    Robyn Carston

  • A unitary approach to lexical pragmatics: relevance, inference and ad hoc concepts.

    Deirdre Wilson;Robyn Carston

  • Implicature, explicature and truth-theoretic semantics

    R Carston

  • Linguistic meaning, communicated meaning and cognitive pragmatics

    Robyn Carston

  • Relevance Theory and the saying/implicating distinction

    Robyn Carston

  • Metaphor, relevance and the 'emergent property' issue

    Deirdre Wilson;Robyn Carston

  • Metalinguistic negation and echoic use

    Robyn Carston

  • Explicature and semantics.

    R Carston

  • Enrichment and loosening : Complementary processes in deriving the proposition expressed?

    Robyn Carston

  • XIII-Metaphor: Ad Hoc Concepts, Literal Meaning and Mental Images

    Robyn Carston

  • Metaphor, hyperbole and simile: A pragmatic approach

    Robyn Carston;Catherine Wearing

  • Linguistic communication and the semantics/pragmatics distinction

    Robyn Carston

  • The semantics/pragmatics distinction: a view from Relevance Theory

    Robyn Carston

  • Relevance theory : applications and implications

    Robyn Carston;Seiji Uchida

  • Quantity maxims and generalised implicature

    Robyn Carston

  • The pragmatics of sentential coordination with and.

    Diane Blakemore;Robyn Carston

  • The Explicit/Implicit Distinction in Pragmatics and the Limits of Explicit Communication

    Robyn Carston

  • Conjunction, explanation and relevance

    Robyn Carston

  • Truth-conditional content and conversational implicature

    R Carston

  • Word meaning and concept expressed

    Robyn Carston

  • Hyperbolic language and its relation to metaphor and irony

    Robyn Carston;Catherine Wearing

  • Negation, `presupposition' and the semantics/pragmatics distinction

    Robyn Carston

Frequent Co-Authors

Deirdre Wilson
Deirdre Wilson University College London

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