About
Csilla is a linguistics PhD candidate. Her primary areas of interest are semantics-pragmatics, prosody, and neurolinguistics. Broadly speaking, she is interested in speech production and processing in neurodivergent populations, with a focus on prosody and pragmatics. She is currently looking into the contribution of prosody to making the pragmatic inference from ‘literal’ to ‘ironic' meaning during sarcasm perception.
She completed her MA studies in English Philology with a specialization in Theoretical Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary). Her MA research centered around the semantics of pronouns and their treatment in formal semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. In her MA thesis, she focused on the semantics of cataphoric structures in English, and touched upon the possibility of representing cataphoric reference in a dynamic semantic framework.
