School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences

School of Humanities, Languages, & Social Sciences

Professor Diane Blakemore

Professor of Linguistics

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Biography

I am originally from New Zealand, but came to the UK in 1976 to do my PhD on the semantics-pragmatics interface at University College London. Before coming to take up the Chair of Linguistics at Salford in 1998 I was Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Southampton.

From September 2005 – September 2006 my research was supported by a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship. My research is currently supported by a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship.

I am an advisory editor for Lingua and a member of the advisory board of Mind and Language

Funded Projects: Expressives, communication and the representation of consciousness (Blakemore)

Teaching

I am currently on research leave (until Sept 2013)

Research Interests

My main interests are at the interface of pragmatics and linguistic semantics – in particular, non-truth conditional meaning (including discourse markers, expressives and parentheticals) and all aspects of the relationship between pragmatics and style. I work within the framework of Sperber & Wilson’s relevance theory, but I would welcome enquiries from students interested in doing in semantics and pragmatics in a variety of frameworks, particularly those with a cognitive orientation.

Qualifications and Memberships

BA (Hons) (Philosopy) University of Victoria, Wellington

PhD (Linguistics) University College London

Publications

1987 Semantic Constraints on Relevance (Blackwell )

1992 Understanding Utterances (Blackwell )

2002 Relevance and Linguistic Meaning (Cambridge University Press)

2008 Apposition and affective communication. Language and Literature 17.1, 37 – 58.

2010 Communication and the representation of thought: the use of audience directed expressions in free indirect thought representations. Journal of Linguistics.46.3, 475 – 599.

2011 On the descriptive ineffability of expressive meaning., Journal of Pragmatics, 43, 3337- 3350