Katarzyna M. JaszczoltDepartment of Theoretical and Applied LinguisticsFaculty of Modern and Medieval Languages University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom kmj21@cam.ac.uk |
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Kasia Jaszczolt (pronounced: Yashchout) is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, University of Cambridge, and Professorial Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 2012 she was elected Member of Academia Europaea. She was President of the Cambridge Institute of Language Research and Head of Department of Linguistics 2009-11. She is the author of a theory of discourse interpretation, Default Semantics, and its successor Interactive Semantics (in progress) and General Editor of a book series Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought, Oxford University Press (with Louis de Saussure). She is a member of several editorial boards of linguistics journals, including Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Kalbotyra, Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Studies in Polish Linguistics, Lodz Papers in Linguistics, International Journal of Language Studies, Folia Philosophica, and book series, including Studies in Pragmatics, Elsevier. From 1996 to 2008 she was Principal Editor of a book series Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Elsevier. She was also member of the Committee of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB), 2003-2009.