Prof. Dr. Elin McCready

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAllgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaften, Experimentelle Linguistik, Typologie, Außereuropäische Sprachen,Einzelsprachwissenschaften, Historische Linguistik
Keywordsformal pragmatics, evidentials, conventional implicatures, politeness, dynamic semantics

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandJapan
OrtTokyo, Shibuya-ku
Universität/InstitutionAoyama Gakuin University
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of English and American Literature

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Ulrich SauerlandLeibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V. (GWZ), Berlin
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.03.2022

Programm(e)

2020Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis-Programm

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Professor McCready, a leading linguist internationally, carries out ground-breaking studies to develop and test formal models of how language conveys meaning. Her important contributions to theoretical semantics and pragmatics have deepened the understanding of meaning such as speaker certainty and politeness that seem largely independent of the core sentence meaning, but interact with it. In Germany, Professor McCready intends to work on models of types of political speech that carry different messages for different addressees. She will, furthermore, focus on the phenomenon of different registers in language use.