Robyn Carston

Robyn Anne Carston, FBA is a linguist and academic, who specialises in pragmatics, semantics, and the philosophy of language.

[2] She studied English literature at the University of Canterbury, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) 1975.

[3] She moved to England to study at University College London (UCL), graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) with Distinction in Phonetics and Linguistics in 1980.

[3] She remained at UCL to undertake postgraduate research under the supervision of Deirdre Wilson.

[3] From 2007 to 2017, she was additionally a senior researcher at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo.