Kasia M. Jaszczolt - Biography#

Kasia M. Jaszczolt (D.Phil., Oxon; PhD, Cantab) is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Cambridge (Head of Department of Linguistics and President of Cambridge Institute of Language Research 2009-11) and Professorial Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge where she is also Director of Studies and member of College Council.

She has published over 70 articles, many of which are in international top-rated journals, 4 monographs, and 8 edited collections. She is the author of an influential theory of discourse interpretation called Default Semantics. Her books include Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions: Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription (Elsevier 1999), Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning in Language and Discourse (Longman 2002), Default Semantics: Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication (OUP 2005), and Representing Time: An Essay on Temporality as Modality (OUP, 2009). She has been General Editor of two book series and a member of editorial boards of several linguistics journals and book series. She has contributed to many encyclopedias and handbooks, including Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia (of which she is also consulting editor), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (OUP), Handbook of Pragmatics (J. Benjamins), and The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (2012, CUP, of which she is also co-editor).

Kasia M. Jaszczolt is regularly invited to serve on international review panels of experts (most recent: Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments, German Research Foundation, January 2012). She is also regularly invited to serve as assessor on international appointment and promotion committees (most recent: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland). She serves on numerous editorial boards, including Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Kalbotyra, Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Łódź Papers in Linguistics; series Studies in Pragmatics, Elsevier and Mouton Studies in Pragmatics, Mouton de Gruyter). She has also served as General Editor for two book series (OUP and Elsevier) and has recently been invited to be in charge of a new series Cambridge Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics book series for Cambridge University Press. She is consulting editor for publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave, J. Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter, referee for professional journals (c. 15 journals in linguistics and philosophy, including Journal of Pragmatics, Lingua, Journal of Linguistics, Erkenntnis, Synthese, Dialectica, Australian Journal of Linguistics), as well as a referee for grant-awarding organizations including Leverhulme Trust, AHRC, ESRC, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); Foundation for Polish Science (FNP); The Israel Science Foundation), and member of various scientific committees. Evidence of her international reputation and leadership is also provided by the numerous invitations to deliver plenary lectures and keynote addresses at major international conferences, including 11th International Pragmatics Conference. She has also been invited to the 1st International Pragmatics Conference of the Americas (North Carolina, 2012) as the only non-US keynote speaker. See curriculum vitae for more information.