Alex Davies

Biography

I work primarily on problems of communication that derive from linguistic context-sensitivity: from the fact that a sentence can often be interpreted differently, depending on the context of its use. I also have research interests in the politics of free speech, and in the semantics and pragmatics of Estonian as studied within the formal linguistic tradition: such as definiteness, slurs and quantifiers. I have also published on university bureaucracy. Increasing I'm bringing together my interest in bureaucracy with my interest in linguist context-sensitivity. I am also working on improving my data-collection and data-analytic skills in order to improve the empirical basis of my work.

The most up-to-date descriptions of my work and career can be found at my Estonian Research Council profile page and at my philpapers page (where you can download my papers open access). Links to these are elsewhere on this Orcid profile.