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2. Pragmatics - Wikipedia

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   Linguistics. In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship between the interpreter and the interpreted. [1] Linguists who specialize in pragmatics are called pragmaticians.

3. Laurel J. Brinton - Wikipedia

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   Laurel J. Brinton. Laurel J. Brinton (born 1953) is an American-born Canadian linguist. Her research explores areas of Modern English grammar, historical change in English discourse markers, grammaticalization and lexification in English, corpus linguistics, and the pragmatics of English. [1][2] Her body of linguistic research spans several ...

4. Georgia M. Green - Wikipedia

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   Georgia M. Green. Georgia M. Green is an American linguist and academic. She is an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research has focused on pragmatics, speaker intention, word order and meaning. She has been an advisory editor for several linguistics journals or publishers and she serves on the usage ...

5. Jef Verschueren - Wikipedia

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   Jef Verschueren is a Belgian linguist, academic, and author. He is an emeritus professor of Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. [ 1] Verschueren is most known for his work on semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. Among his authored works are his publications in academic journals, including Journal of Pragmatics ...

6. Robyn Carston - Wikipedia

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   Robyn Carston. Robyn Anne Carston, FBA is a linguist and academic, who specialises in pragmatics, semantics, and the philosophy of language. Since 2005, she has been Professor of Linguistics at University College London. [1][2][3]

7. Betty Birner - Wikipedia

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   Birner received a PhD in linguistics from Northwestern University in 1992. [1] She worked for two years in a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania ’s Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. She is currently a Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science in the English department at Northern Illinois University. [2]