Alison Hall

Dr. Alison Hall is a VC2020 Senior Lecturer in English Language at De Montfort University (DMU), affiliated with the School of Humanities. She joined DMU in 2015 and specializes in theoretical pragmatics and philosophy of language.

• PhD in Linguistics, University College London (UCL)
• MA in Linguistics, UCL
• BA in German and Spanish, University of Bradford

Her research focuses on pragmatics, philosophy of language, semantics, and linguistic theory, particularly on topics like linguistic underdeterminacy, explicit-implicit distinctions, and relevance theory. Her publications explore pragmatic enrichment, semantic compositionality, and the interaction between syntax and pragmatics.

Her recent articles (2017-2019) demonstrate expertise in ellipsis, ad hoc concepts, and contextual meaning construction. These works intersect with cognitive science, formal semantics, and inferential communication frameworks.

• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Research in Paris funding for Institut Jean Nicod

She supervises PhD research in theoretical pragmatics and participates in international conferences, including the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the Experimental Philosophy Conference. Her teaching includes courses on linguistics, pragmatics, and English language dissertations.