Alexandra Lorson (AFHEA)
PhD Linguistics & English Language
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: A.Lorson@sms.ed.ac.uk
- Web: https://alex-lorson.github.io/
Address
- Street
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Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Qualifications
PhD
Alex works in the area of experimental pragmatics and is interested in how interlocutors organise dialogue by using different linguistic tools to background and foreground the points they are making.
She is also an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) since 2021 and has been a tutor for the department of Linguistics and English Language as well as the department of Psychology.
MSc in Linguistics (2015-2018)
University of Potsdam
Dissertation title: The influence of world knowledge on the projectivity of 'stop'
BA in German Studies (2012-2015)
University of Mannheim
Research summary
presuppositions and projection, pragmatics, computational modeling
Current research interests
My doctoral project revolves around presuppositions. For this purpose, I investigate interlocutors' sensitivity to distinctions in how meaning is conveyed and the impact of discourse context and world knowledge on the way such information is interpreted.Current project grants
CHSS/PPLS research award (College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science/ School of Philosophy, Psychology and
Language Sciences)
PhD studentship: AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities)