# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deirdre-wilson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:06:34.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deirdre-wilson"
name: "Deirdre Wilson"
slug: "deirdre-wilson"
description: "Deirdre Susan Moir Wilson is a British linguist and cognitive scientist. She is emeritus professor of Linguistics at University College London and research professor at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo. Her most influential work has been in linguistic pragmatics—specifically in the development of Relevance Theory with French anthropologist Dan Sperber. This work has been especially influential in the Philosophy of Language. Important influences on Wilson are Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor, and Paul Grice. Linguists and philosophers of language who have been students of Wilson include Stephen Neale, Robyn Carston and Tim Wharton."
tagline: "British linguist and cognitive scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Deirdre_Wilson_Books.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump