I am an MPhil student in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, where I work with Daniel Altshuler. Before coming to Oxford, I studied Logic and Psychology at Sun Yat-sen University.
My research lies at the intersection of cognitive science, computational pragmatics, and philosophy of language. I am interested in how conventional meaning and pragmatic inference interact in communication.
I also serve as Treasurer of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain Postgraduate Student Committee.
Email: tianfang.chen [at] ling-phil.ox.ac.uk.
News
- Oral presentation, “Modelling Linguistic Politeness in Cheap Talk,” at The 2026 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.
- Online flash talks at The 48th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society on pragmatic optimisation in politeness and speech perception in speech language models.
Elsewhere
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