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Hi! I'm Kate Hazel Stanton :)

I'm an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. My primary appointment is Philosophy, with secondary appointments in Linguistics and HPS. I'm also an associate director of the Center of Philosophy of Science. 

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My core research comprises two projects: the semantics of linguistic creativity, and the integration of affect in lexical meaning. I also have a range of experimental work and have coauthered with excellent folk  in computer science and cognitive science. 

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I run the Semanticores slack for work in Semantics/Pragmatics at the University of Pittsburgh and beyond. I am very proud of my Semanticores and I hope to get chance to update this site with their doings soon.

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Other things I like. I'm an affiliated member of the wonderful ECOM  -- check them out! I also help run the Open Doors Academy here at Pitt.

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This site is under construction so I hope you'll bear with me! 

Book News!

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We are happy to announce that the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Linguistics edited by myself, Ryan Nefdt and Gabe Dupre has entered production :) 

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Available on Request

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  • Draft of a paper on an exclamative construction in Hindi-Urdu

  • Draft of a paper on the category of: expressive meaning

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Note: papers currently under review are not listed. For a full CV please email.

 

I'm also happy to chat about my recent experimental work on the influence of affect on conversational inference.

Representative Publications

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  • Know knowledge? The effects of prosody on ‘Knows” (Forthcoming in Dialectica)

  • ‘Creativity: Creative and Uncreative’ (Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Linguistics, Dupre, Nefdt and Stanton eds.)

  • Reasoning with Polysemes: When Default Inferences Beat Contextual Information. 2024. Fischer, E., Engelhardt, P., Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, D., & Stanton, K.  Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.

  • Composing Words and Nonwords’, Synthese:(6) 179-202 (2023)

  • Is it a concern or a preference? An investigation into the ability of privacy scales to capture and distinguish granular privacy constructs’. With Jessica Colnago (Google), Lorrie Cranor (CMU), Alessandro Aquisiti (CMU). Proceedings of The Eighteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2022). Winner of IAPP SOUPS Privacy award.

  • You Hoboken: Semantics of an Expressive Label Maker’. (As: Kate Hazel Jain), Linguistics and Philosophy 45 (2):365-391 (2022)

  • Linguistics and Philosophy: Break Up Song’, in: ‘The Philosophy and Science of Language; Interdisciplinary Perspectives’, eds. Karstens, Klippi & Nefdt, (2021, Palgrave McMillan). pp.409-436.’

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