Dr Roberto B. Sileo

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Biography

Roberto is the Academic Director of the MSt English Language Assessment, a blended learning program delivered by the institute in collaboration with different faculties and departments within the University of Cambridge. He is also an affiliated lecturer in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and the Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics at Homerton College, Cambridge.

Roberto holds a PhD and an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. He also holds a degree in English Language Teaching from the Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa and law degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Buenos Aires.

Qualifications:

PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge

MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge

Magister Juris, University of Oxford

JD (registered lawyer), University of Buenos Aires

BA in Law, University of Buenos Aires

BA in English Language Teaching, Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa

Research

Roberto’s academic interests include bilingualism, English language teaching and assessment, first and second language processing, semantics and pragmatics, and research method practice. Roberto’s current research focuses on anaphora resolution in children and in adults, while in the past he investigated the use and interpretation of descriptive and expressive language forms. Following a radical contextualist approach, he looked into the two well-differentiated dimensions of meaning and how they can convey, in context, propositional and truth-evaluable content.

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Sileo, R. B. & Jaszczolt, K.M. Towards a conceptual-semantic model of cross-sentential anaphora. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 13, 63-97 , 2021
Sileo, R.B. & Tyčová, D. Czech-Rep: Introducing a nonword repetition task for Czech. Studies in Applied Linguistics 10(2), 101-107 , 2019
Sileo, R.B. (2018b). The semantics and pragmatics of racial and ethnic slurs: Towards a psychologically real contextualist account. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics11, 86-119 , 2018
Sileo, R.B. (2018a). Slurs, truth-value judgements, and context sensitivity. Human Affairs 28(1), 17-23 , 2018
Sileo, R.B., Tsimpli, N. & Cilibrasi, L. (under review). Anaphoric pronoun resolution in ambiguous verb-of-transfer contexts: A forced-choice reaction - time task , 2021 (UNKNOWN)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Jaszczolt, K. M. & Sileo, R. B. Pragmatics and Grammar as Sources of Temporal Ordering in Discourse: The Case of And. In Macagno, F. & Capone, A. (Eds.) Inquiries in Philosophical Pragmatics: Issues in Linguistics, 53-81 , 2021

Memberships

Affiliated lecturer in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, Cambridge

Fellow and Director of Studies in Linguistics, Homerton College, Cambridge

Academic associate, Pembroke College, Cambridge

Fellow of the U.K. Higher Education Academy

Life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge

Life member of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford

Life member of the Jesus College Cambridge Society

Member of the Cambridge Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Centre

Member of the Editorial Board of Intercultural Pragmatics

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics at SOAS, University of London

Institute of Continuing Education
Madingley Hall
Madingley
Cambridge
CB23 8AQ

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