Mira Ariel (Hebrew: מירה אריאל) is a professor of linguistics at Tel Aviv University, specializing in pragmatics.
She was advised by Tanya Reinhart and Ellen Prince and was awarded her PhD in 1986 with a dissertation entitled, Givenness marking.
She subsequently spent a brief period as honorary research fellow in sociolinguistics at the University of London.
[3][4] Ariel was hired as Lecturer at Tel Aviv University in 1988 and spent her whole career there, reaching the rank of full professor in 2006.
[2][4] Ariel’s research deals with issues in pragmatics and at the semantics-pragmatics interface and is mainly concerned with linguistic manifestations of reference to entities in discourse.