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Jessica Rett

University of California, Los Angeles

H-index: 17

North America-United States

About Jessica Rett

Jessica Rett, With an exceptional h-index of 17 and a recent h-index of 15 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, Los Angeles, specializes in the field of semantics, pragmatics, degree semantics, illocutionary semantics, philosophy of language.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The semantics of cancer: An experimental study in the meaning and use of cancer-related terms among surgical professionals.

Decomposing 'as if'

A typology of semantic entities

The semantics of emotive markers and other illocutionary content

Eliminating EARLIEST: a general semantics for before and after

Prosodically marked mirativity

Separate but equal: a typology of equative constructions

Manner implicatures and how to spot them

Jessica Rett Information

University	University of California, Los Angeles
Position	Professor of Linguistics
Citations(all)	1810
Citations(since 2020)	828
Cited By	1313
hIndex(all)	17
hIndex(since 2020)	15
i10Index(all)	26
i10Index(since 2020)	17
Email	Access Email
University Profile Page	University of California, Los Angeles
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Jessica Rett Skills & Research Interests

semantics

pragmatics

degree semantics

illocutionary semantics

philosophy of language

Top articles of Jessica Rett

Title	Journal	Author(s)	Publication Date
The semantics of cancer: An experimental study in the meaning and use of cancer-related terms among surgical professionals.		Rajam Raghunathan Jessica Rett Rajam Raghunathan Frederick C Eilber	2023/6/1
Decomposing 'as if'		Jessica Rett W. Starr	2022
A typology of semantic entities		Jessica Rett	2022
The semantics of emotive markers and other illocutionary content	Journal of Semantics	Jessica Rett	2021
Eliminating EARLIEST: a general semantics for before and after	Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung	Jessica Rett	2020/9/18
Prosodically marked mirativity		Jessica Rett Beth Sturman	2020
Separate but equal: a typology of equative constructions		Jessica Rett	2020
Manner implicatures and how to spot them	International Review of Pragmatics	Jessica Rett	2020