Alex Lascarides
Professor of Semantics at the University of Edinburgh
About Alex Lascarides
Born 1950. Alex Lascarides is a researcher, linguist and university teacher.
Early life and education Lascarides graduated from Durham University where she was a student of Van Mildert College, Durham with a first-class degree in mathematics. She moved to the University of Edinburgh for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in cognitive science in 1985. She stayed at Edinburgh for her doctoral research on semantic analysis.
Research and career Her research investigates the semantics of communicative actions in conversation. She explored the science of conversation in the Logics of Conversation, and presented a framework known as Segmented Discourse Representation Theory to better understand linguistics and language. Select publications
Awards and honours In 2023 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
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