Professor Kasia M. Jaszczolt

Research

My interests lie in the area of semantics, pragmatics, cognitive science, and philosophy of language. I can define myself as a post-Gricean pragmaticist, truth-conditional semanticist of a dynamic semantics orientation, and a supporter of contextualism in the representation of meaning, i.e. the idea that the interesting truth conditions are those of an utterance rather than a sentence: information from pragmatic inference and other contextual input contributes to the truth-conditional content.

I am interested in modelling of the process of meaning construction in discourse that takes into account the intentionality of acts of communication as well as the compositional character of meaning. I work mainly on the semantics of propositional attitude constructions and other intensional contexts; referring expressions; semantic ambiguity and underspecification; semantics/pragmatics interface; the saying/implicating distinction, and defaults in communication. In my theory of Default Semantics, I implemented the dynamic semantic approach of Discourse Representation Theory to a wide category of acts of communication, accounting for the pragmatic origin of some components of truth-conditional meaning as proposed in truth-conditional pragmatics.

My long-term project stemming from this theory concerns mapping of various aspects of meaning of acts of communication onto relevant processes and modelling their interaction (Interactive Semantics, in progress, OUP). One of my recent projects concerned semantic representation of time. In Representing Time, I developed an account of temporality understood as epistemic modality. My other related interests concern compositionality of language and thought, conceptualization of time in various languages, and contrastive semantics and pragmatics.

Publications

Key publications:

Jaszczolt, K. M. (2011). Default meanings, salient meanings, and automatic processing. In: K. M. Jaszczolt & K. Allan (eds). Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 11-33.

Jaszczolt K.M. (2009). Representing Time: An Essay on Temporality as Modality, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009

Jaszczolt, K. M. (2009). Cancellability and the primary/secondary meaning distinction. Intercultural Pragmatics 6. 259-289.

Jaszczolt K.M (2005). Default Semantics: Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005

Jaszczolt, K. M. (1999). Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions: Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription. Oxford: Elsevier Science.

Publications (from Symplectic)

Journal articles

2024 (Accepted for publication)

Jaszczolt, K., 2024 (Accepted for publication). Capturing changing concepts: The case of 'humanism' Topoi,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10076-1

2023

Jaszczolt, KM., 2023. Flowing Time: Emergentism and Linguistic Diversity Philosophies, v. 8
Doi: 10.3390/philosophies8060116

2021

Jaszczolt, KM., 2021. Functional proposition: A new concept for representing discourse meaning? Journal of Pragmatics, v. 171
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.10.010

2020

Jaszczolt, KM., 2020. Human Imprints of Real Time: from Semantics to Metaphysics Philosophia (United States), v. 48
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00190-w

2019

Jaszczolt, KM., 2019. Rethinking being Gricean: New challenges for metapragmatics Journal of Pragmatics, v. 145
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.01.024

2018

Jaszczolt, KM., 2018. Pragmatics and philosophy: In search of a paradigm Intercultural Pragmatics, v. 15
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2018-0002

2017

Jaszczolt, KM., 2017. Time, perspective and semantic representation Language and Cognition, v. 10
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2017.7

2016 (Published online)

Jaszczolt, KM., 2016 (Published online). ‘On imaginative imagination and conventional conventions: A response to Lepore and Stone’ Polish Journal of Philosophy, v. 10

2016

Elder, CH. and Jaszczolt, KM., 2016. Towards a pragmatic category of conditionals Journal of Pragmatics, v. 98
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.04.013

2013

Jaszczolt, KM., 2013. First-person reference in discourse: Aims and strategies Journal of Pragmatics, v. 48
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2012.11.018

2012 (No publication date)

Jaszczolt, KM. and Jaszczolt, KM., 2012 (No publication date). 'Pragmaticising' Kaplan: Flexible inferential bases and fluid characters Australian Journal of Linguistics,

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012 (No publication date). 'Delimitation of pragmatics: Paradigms, myths and fashions. A response to Bara' Intercultural Pragmatics, v. 9

2012

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. 'First-person reference in discourse: Aims and strategies' Journal of Pragmatics, v. 48

2011 (No publication date)

Jaszczolt, KM., 2011 (No publication date). Varieties of defaults Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, v. 1

2010

Jaszczolt, KM., 2010. Situated temporal reference: A case for compositional pragmatics? J PRAGMATICS, v. 42
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.06.007

2009

Jaszczolt, KM., 2009. Cancellability and the primary/secondary meaning distinction INTERCULT PRAGMAT, v. 6
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/IPRG.2009.015

Jaszczolt, KM., 2009. Explorations in pragmatics: Linguistic, cognitive and intercultural aspects MULTILINGUA, v. 28

2007

Jaszczolt, KM., 2007. Variadic function and pragmatics-rich representations of belief reports J PRAGMATICS, v. 39
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2007.01.001

Jaszczolt, KM., 2007. The syntax-pragmatics merger: Belief reports in the theory of Default Semantics Pragmatics and Cognition, v. 15
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1075/pc.15.1.06jas

2006

Jaszczolt, KM., 2006. Default Meanings Wai Guo Yu/Journal of Foreign Languages, v. 5

Jaszczolt, KM., 2006. Meaning merger: Pragmatic inference, defaults, and compositionality Intercultural Pragmatics, v. 3
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/IP.2006.012

2005

Jaszczolt, KM., 2005. Minimal semantics. J LINGUIST, v. 41
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226705233637

2004

Jaszczolt, KM., 2004. ‘Prolegomena to Default Semantics’ Research in Language, v. 2

2003

Jaszczolt, KM., 2003. Epistemic modality, language, and conceptualization: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective J PRAGMATICS, v. 35

2002

2002. Conceptual Contours at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Special issue Journal of pragmatics, v. 34

Jaszczolt, KM. and Turner, K., 2002. Special issue: Conceptual contours at the semantics/pragmatics interface - Introduction J PRAGMATICS, v. 34

Jaszczolt, KM. and Turner, K., 2002. Introduction Journal of Pragmatics, v. 34
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(01)00062-5

2001

Jaszczolt, KM., 2001. Focus: Linguistic, cognitive, and computational perspectives. J PRAGMATICS, v. 33

Jaszczolt, KM., 2001. Referring Expressions: A Unified Approach Wai Guo Yu/Journal of Foreign Languages, v. 2

1999

JASZCZOLT, K., VAN OSTADE, IT-B., FISCHER, O., VAN DER WURFF, W., COLEMAN, J., HOUGH, C., PUST, L., SAND, A., JUCKER, AH. and CALVO, C., 1999. English Language The Year's Work in English Studies, v. 77
Doi: 10.1093/ywes/77.1.1

1998

Jaszczolt, KM., 1998. Reports on beliefs: default interpretations and default intentions J LITERARY SEMANTICS, v. 27

Jaszczolt, KM., 1998. Referring in discourse: referential intention and the 'taking for granted' principle J LITERARY SEMANTICS, v. 27

Jaszczolt, KM., 1998. Discourse about beliefs (Discourse Representation Theory as a framework for representing sentences that express reports on beliefs) THEOR LINGUIST, v. 24

Jaszczolt, KM., 1998. Ways of meaning: An introduction to a philosophy of language, 2nd edition LANGUAGE, v. 74

1997

Jaszczolt, KM., 1997. The 'default de re' principle for the interpretation of belief utterances J PRAGMATICS, v. 28

Jaszczolt, KM., 1997. Speakers, listeners and communication: Explorations in discourse analysis - Brown,G LANGUAGE, v. 73

Jaszczolt, KM., 1997. Walter de Mulder. 1994. Demonstratives and Intentionality: Searle and Husserl on Meaning and Perception Studies in Language, v. 21
Doi: 10.1075/sl.21.2.17jas

1996

Jaszczolt, K., 1996. Relevance and infinity: Implications for discourse interpretation Journal of Pragmatics, v. 25
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(94)00104-9

Jaszczolt, K., 1996. Reported speech, vehicles of thought, and the horizon Lingua e Stile, v. 31

Jaszczolt, K., 1996. Foundations of speech act theory: Philosophical and linguistic perspectives Journal of Pragmatics, v. 25
Doi: 10.1016/s0378-2166(96)90061-2

Jaszczolt, KM. and K, , 1996. Turner (eds). Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics special issue of Language Sciences, v. vol.

1995

Jaszczolt, K., Coleman, J., Woods, NJ., Fischer, O., Van Der Wurff, W., Hough, C., Jucker, AH. and Calvo, C., 1995. English language Year's Work in English Studies, v. 76
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/76.1.1

JASZCZOLT, KM., 1995. SIGNS, SCIENCE AND POLITICS - PHILOSOPHIES OF LANGUAGE IN EUROPE 1700-1830 - FORMIGARI,L J PRAGMATICS, v. 23

Jaszczolt, K. and Fodor, JA., 1995. The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics Language, v. 71
Doi: 10.2307/415751

Jaszczolt, K. and Taylor, TJ., 1995. Mutual Misunderstanding: Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation Language, v. 71
Doi: 10.2307/416010

Jaszczolt, KM., 1995. Review of Schreuder & Weltens (1993): The bilingual lexicon Studies in Language, v. 19
Doi: 10.1075/sl.19.2.13jas

Jaszczolt, K., 1995. Expressions of belief and belief ascription Folia Linguistica, v. 33

Jaszczolt, K., 1995. Typology of contrastive studies: Specialisation, progress and applications Language Teaching, v. 28
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444800000306

1994

Jaszczolt, K., Woods, N., Coleman, J., Fischer, O., Wurff, WVD., Hough, CE. and Weber, JJ., 1994. English language Year's Work in English Studies, v. 75
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/75.1.1

1993

Jaszczolt, K., Woods, N., Fischer, O., Wurff, WVD., Hough, C. and Weber, JJ., 1993. English language Year's Work in English Studies, v. 74
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/74.1.1

Jaszczolt, K., 1993. De re/de dicto: A semantics of belief sentences Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, v. 28

1989

Jaszczolt, K., 1989. Linguistics: accumulation or revolutions? Folia Linguistica, v. 21

Book chapters

2023

Jasczcolt, KM. and Berthon, L., 2023. Chapter 7. Negotiation and joint construction of meaning (or why health providers need philosophy of communication)
Doi: 10.1075/pbns.338.07jas

2022

Jaszczolt, KM., 2022. Contrastive analysis
Doi: 10.1075/hop.m2.con6

2021

Jaszczolt, KM. and Sileo, RB., 2021. Pragmatics and Grammar as Sources of Temporal Ordering in Discourse: The Case of And
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56696-8_4

2018

Jaszczolt, KM. and Huang, M., 2018. Erratum to: Monsters and I: The Case of Mixed Quotation
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68747-6_14

Jaszczolt, KM., 2018. Pragmatic indexicals
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786658.003.0013

Jaszczolt, KM. and Witek, M., 2018. Expressing the self: From types of de se to speech-act types
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786658.003.0010

Jaszczolt, KM., 2018. Introduction: The self in language, in thought, and en route in-between
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786658.003.0001

2017

Jaszczolt, KM., 2017. Slippery meaning and accountability
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44601-1_1

Jaszczolt, KM., 2017. Temporal reference
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315668925

Jaszczolt, KM. and Huang, M., 2017. Monsters and I: The case of mixed quotation
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68747-6_13

Jaszczolt, KM., 2017. The true provenance of self-reference: A case for salience-based contextualism
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110546095-010

Jaszczolt, KM. and Huang, M., 2017. Monsters and I: The Case of Mixed Quotation (vol 15, pg 357, 2017)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68747-6_14

2016

Jaszczolt, K. and Odrowaz-Sypniewska, J., 2016. Kontekstualizm a minimalizm semantyczny

Jaszczolt, KM., 2016. The syntax-pragmatics merger: Belief reports in the theory of default semantics
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21395-8_18

Jaszczolt, KM., Savva, E. and Haugh, M., 2016. The individual and the social path of interpretation: The case of incomplete disjunctive questions
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12616-6_9

Jaszczolt, KM., 2016. Temporal reference without the concept of time?
Doi: 10.1075/hcp.52.01jas

2015

Jaszczolt, K., 2015. Contextualism

Jaszczolt, K., 2015. Linguistics and philosophy

Jaszczolt, KM., 2015. ‘The syntax-pragmatics merger: Default Semantics for belief reports’

2014

Jaszczolt, K., 2014. Delimiting lexical semantics: A radical contextualist view

2013

Jaszczolt, KM., 2013. Contextualism and minimalism on de se belief ascription

Jaszczolt, KM., 2013. Temporality and epistemic commitment: An unresolved question

Jaszczolt, KM., 2013. ‘Introduction: Time, temporality, and tense’

2012

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. ‘Semantics/pragmatics boundary disputes’

Filipović, L. and Jaszczolt, K., 2012. Linguistic diversity in the spatio-temporal domain

Filipović, L. and Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. Linguistic, cultural, and cognitive approaches to space and time
Doi: 10.1075/hcp.37.03fil

2012. Introduction: Pragmatic objects and pragmatic methods

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. Context: Gricean intentions vs. two-dimenstional semantics

Jaszczolt, KM. and Filipovic, L., 2012. Space and time in languages, cultures, and cognition FOREWORD

Filipovic, L. and Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. Linguistic diversity in the spatio-temporal domain INTRODUCTION

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. Cross-linguistic differences in expressing time and universal principles of utterance interpretation

Filipovic, L. and Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. Linguistic, cultural, and cognitive approaches to space and time INTRODUCTION

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. Propositional attitude reports: Pragmatic aspects

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. Space and time in languages, cultures, and cognition
Doi: 10.1075/hcp.37.02for

Jaszczolt, KM. and Haugh, M., 2012. Speaker intentions and intentionality

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. ‘Psychological explanations in Gricean pragmatics and Frege’s legacy’

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. ‘Varieties of defaults’

2011

Jaszczolt, KM., 2011. ‘Contrastive analysis’

Jaszczolt, KM., 2011. Default meanings, salient meanings, and automatic processing

Jaszczolt, KM., 2011. Prolegomena to default semantics

Jaszczolt, KM. and Srioutai, J., 2011. Communicating about the past through modality in English and Thai.

Jaszczolt, KM., 2011. Time as degrees of epistemic commitment.

2010

Jaszczolt, KM., 2010. ‘Intentionality’

Jaszczolt, KM., 2010. Default Semantics.

2009

Jaszczolt, KM., 2009. Pragmatic compositionality, Syntactic Direction principle, and the contextualism/minimalism debate

Jaszczolt, KM., 2009. Semantics-pragmatics interface.

Jaszczolt, KM., 2009. Propositional attitudes.

Jaszczolt, KM., 2009. Defaults in utterance interpretation.

Jaszczolt, KM., 2009. Post-Gricean pragmatics

Jaszczolt, KM., 2009. Storm in a teacup: What exactly are default interpretations?

Jaszczolt, KM., 2009. Where cognitive and truth-conditional semantics meet: The case of concept shift.

2008

Jaszczolt, KM., 2008. The modal supervenience of the concept of time

Jaszczolt, KM., 2008. Psychological explanations in Gricean pragmatics: An argument from cultural common ground.

Jaszczolt, KM., 2008. ‘Psychological explanations in Gricean pragmatics and Frege’s legacy’

Jaszczolt, KM., 2008. Psychological explanations in Gricean pragmatics and Frege's legacy

Jaszczolt, KM., 2008. Future time reference: Truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication?

2007

Jaszczolt, K., 2007. On being post-Gricean

2006

Jaszczolt, K., 2006. Pomiedzy semantyka a pragmatyka

Jaszczolt, K., 2006. Propositional attitudes

Jaszczolt, K., 2006. Default Semantics

Jaszczolt, K., 2006. Constraint, Pragmatic
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/00384-9

Jaszczolt, KM., 2006. Default interpretations
Doi: 10.1075/hop.10.def2

2000

2000. The default-based context-dependence of belief reports

Jaszczolt, KM., 2000. ‘Attitudes in discourse: The state of the art’

1999

Jaszczolt, K., 1999. Default semantics, pragmatics, and intentions

1998

Jaszczolt, K., 1998. Referring expressions: intensionality and intentionality

1996

Jaszczolt, K., 1996. The Default De Re Principle

1995

Jaszczolt, K., 1995. Contrastive analysis

Books

2018

Huang, M. and Jaszczolt, KM., 2018. Expressing the self: Cultural diversity and cognitive universals
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786658.001.0001

2016

Jaszczolt, KM., 2016. Meaning in Linguistic Interaction
Doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602469.001.0001

2013

Jaszczolt, KM., 2013. Interactive Semantics

2012

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. Time: Language, Cognition, Reality

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic Diversity

Jaszczolt, KM., 2012. Space and Time in Languages and Cultures II: Language, Culture and Cognition

2011

Jaszczolt, KM., 2011. Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing

Allan, K. and Jaszczolt, KM., 2011. Salience and defaults in utterance processing

Allan, K. and Jaszczolt, KM., 2011. Introduction

2011. Editorial Introduction to Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing, with K. Allan

2009

Jaszczolt, KM., 2009. Storm in a teacup: What exactly are default interpretations?

Jaszczolt, K., 2009. Representing Time: An Essay on Temporality as Modality

2007

Jaszczolt, KM., 2007. Default Semantics: Foundations of a Compositional Theory of Acts of Communication
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261987.001.0001

2005

Jaszczolt, K., 2005. Default semantics

2002

Jaszczolt, K., 2002. Semantics and Pragmatics Meaning in Language and Discourse

2000

2000. The Pragmatics of Propositional Attitude Reports

1999

Jaszczolt, K., 1999. Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription

Internet publications

2017

Jaszczolt, KM., 2017. ‘Defaults in semantics and pragmatics’ in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Conference proceedings

2006

Jaszczolt, KM., 2006. Futurity in default semantics WHERE SEMANTICS MEETS PRAGMATICS, v. 16

2003

Jaszczolt, KM. and Turner, K., 2003. Meaning through language contrast - Volume 1 - Editorial preface MEANING THROUGH LANGUAGE CONTRAST, VOL 1, v. 99

Jaszczolt, K., 2003. The modality of the future: A Default-Semantics account Proceedings of the 14th Amsterdam Colloquium ILLC,

Jaszczolt, KM., 2003. On translating 'what is said' -: Tertium comparationis in contrastive semantics and pragmatics MEANING THROUGH LANGUAGE CONTRAST, VOL 2, v. 100

2002

Jaszczolt, KM., 2002. Against ambiguity and underspecification: evidence from presupposition as anaphora JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS, v. 34

1999

Jaszczolt, KM., 1999. The semantics-pragmatics interface: Evidence from definite descriptions SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE, VOL 2: PRAGMATICS IN 1998,

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Jaszczolt, K., 1995. Relevance and infinity Speech Acts and Linguistic Research: Proceedings of the Workshop, July 15-17, 1994. Center for Cognitive Science, SUNY at Buffalo, USA,

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2003. Meaning Through Language Contrast
Doi: 10.1075/pbns.100

2003. Meaning Through Language Contrast
Doi: 10.1075/pbns.99

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