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Deirdre Wilson

University College London ORCID

146

Works

24,358

Citations

55

h-index

86

i10-index

Research Topics

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Affiliations

Australian National University2012–2013

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique1986–2012

Hudson Institute2016–2018

Center for Applied Linguistics2024–2024

University of Oslo2007–2016

Top Works

Relevance: Communication and Cognition

Dan Sperber,Deirdre Wilson

19866,078 citations

Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

Child and Animal Learning Development

Epistemic Vigilance

Dan Sperber,Fabrice Clément,et al.

20101,470 citations

Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind‐reading

Dan Sperber,Deirdre Wilson

20021,265 citations

Relevance: Communication and Cognition

Paul Meara,Dan Sperber,et al.

19891,208 citations

Linguistic form and relevance

Deirdre Wilson,Dan Sperber

1993898 citations

Relevance: Communication and cognition, 2nd ed.

Dan Sperber,Deirdre Wilson

1995810 citations

Meaning and Relevance

Deirdre Wilson,Dan Sperber

2012775 citations

A unitary approach to Lexical Pragmatics: Relevance, Inference and Ad hoc concepts

Deirdre Wilson,Robyn Carston

2007621 citations

On verbal irony

Deirdre Wilson,Dan Sperber

1992559 citations