Robyn Carston

Professor
Robyn Carston
NationalityNew Zealand and British
TitleProfessor of Linguistics
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
Victoria University of Wellington
University College London
ThesisPragmatics and the explicit/implicit distinction (1994)
Doctoral advisorDeirdre Wilson
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplinePragmatics
Semantics
Philosophy of language

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.