Elin McCready

Elin McCready is a Professor in the Department of English at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo and a Research Professor with ICREA at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on semantics and pragmatics, with current projects on aesthetic interpretation, nonanthropomorphic perspectives, and dogwhistles. She is currently holding a Mercator Fellowship at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics for 2024-2025.

McCready's research spans the fields of semantics and pragmatics, with a particular interest in how meaning is constructed in context. Her work covers pragmatic reliability, evidentiality, honorification, expressive content, discourse particles, perspectival predicates, modals, demonstratives, and dogwhistles. Currently, she is exploring aesthetic interpretation, nonanthropomorphic perspectives in narrative, derogatory speech and misgendering, and experimental literature.

Her recent publications, such as "Too big to bind?" and "Commitments: binding and being bound", reflect her ongoing investigation into binding phenomena and commitment structures within linguistic theory. These works sit at the intersection of formal semantics, pragmatics, and cognitive science, often addressing how linguistic forms constrain interpretation in discourse.

Her notable awards include:

• Mercator Fellowship (2024-2025)

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