Dr Kate Scott
Senior Lecturer
Contact
- Email: kate.scott@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Arts, Culture and Communication
- Department: Department of Humanities
About
I am a theoretical linguist with a specialism in pragmatics. My PhD looked at the pragmatics of abbreviated language in diaries, and I take a relevance-theoretic perspective in my work.
My current research comprises several interrelated strands. I am writing a book on the pragmatics of referring expressions, considering how they may be used both to communicate meaning and to create stylistic effects. Related work considers the role and characterization of procedural meaning in verbal and non-verbal communication, and I particularly focus on what a procedural approach can reveal about how prosody and intonation interact with meaning. I have applied relevance-theoretic principles to the analysis of literary texts, and I also have an interest in the pragmatics of computer-mediated communication, having published on the communicative function of hashtags.
Since May 2019 I have been the Acting Head of Humanities.
Areas of specialism
- Pragmatics
- Relevance theory
- Computer-mediated communication
- Prosody
- Semantics
Courses taught
Undergraduate
Qualifications
- PhD in Linguistics
- MA in Linguistics
- BA in English Literature with Drama
- Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
- Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults
Professional membership
Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (HEA)
Publications
Number of items: 15.
Article
Scott, Kate (2018) "Hashtags work everywhere" : the pragmatic functions of spoken hashtags. Discourse, Context & Media, 22, pp. 57-64. ISSN (print) 2211-6958
Scott, Kate [Reviewer] (2018) Book Review of: 'Relevance theory : recent developments, current challenges and future directions' by M. Padilla Cruz (ed.). Journal of Pragmatics, 123, pp. 113-115. ISSN (print) 0378-2166
Scott, Kate (2016) Pronouns and procedures : reference and beyond. Lingua, 175-6, pp. 69-82. ISSN (print) 0024-3841
Scott, Kate (2015) The pragmatics of hashtags : inference and conversational style on Twitter. Journal of Pragmatics, 81, pp. 8-20. ISSN (print) 0378-2166
Scott, Kate (2013) Pragmatically motivated null subjects in English: A relevance theory perspective. Journal of Pragmatics, 53, pp. 68-83. ISSN (print) 0378-2166
Scott, Kate (2013) This and that: a procedural analysis. Lingua, 131, pp. 49-65. ISSN (print) 0024-3841
Scott, Kate (2009) A procedural analysis of 'This' and 'That'. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 21, pp. 151-181. ISSN (print) 0956-7194
Book
Scott, Kate (2020) Referring expressions, pragmatics, and style : reference and beyond. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. 198p. ISSN (print) 9781107177574
Scott, Kate , Clark, Billy and Carston, Robyn, eds. (2019) Relevance, pragmatics and interpretation. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. 326p. ISBN 9781108418638
Book Section
Scott, Kate and Jackson, Rebecca (2020) When EVERYTHING STANDS OUT, nothing does : typography, expectations and procedures. In: Piskorska, Agnieszka, (ed.) Relevance theory, figuration and continuity in pragmatics. John Benjamins Publishing. (Figurative Thought and Language) (In Press)
Scott, Kate (2019) Misleading and relevance in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In: Chapman, Siobhan and Clark, Billy, (eds.) Pragmatics and Literature. Amsterdam, The Netherlands : John Benjamins. pp. 94-114. (Linguistic Approaches to Literature, no. 35) ISSN (print) 1569-3112 ISBN 9789027204448 (In Press)
Carston, Robyn, Clark, Billy and Scott, Kate (2019) Introduction. In: Scott, Kate , Clark, Billy and Carston, Robyn, (eds.) Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781108418638
Scott, Kate (2017) Prosody, procedures and pragmatics. In: Depraetere, Ilse and Salkie, Raphael, (eds.) Semantics and pragmatics : drawing a line. Berlin, Germany : Springer International Publishing. pp. 323-341. (Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, no. 11) ISBN 9783319322452
Scott, Kate (2011) Beyond Reference: Concepts, Procedures and Referring Expressions. In: Escandell-Vidal, Victoria , Leonetti, Manuel and Ahern, Aoife, (eds.) Procedural Meaning: Problems and Perspectives. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. pp. 183-203. (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, no. 25) ISSN (print) 1472-7870 ISBN 9780857240934
Thesis
Scott, Kate (2010) The relevance of referring expressions: the case of diary drop in English. (PhD thesis), University College London, .