Maciej Witek

I am a Professor of Philosophy in the the Institute of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Szczecin (Poland), a Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge), and the coordinator of the Cognition & Communication Research Group (CCRG).

My research focuses on pragmatics and the philosophy of language. I develop an Austin-inspired theory of speech acts and use it to explore phenomena such as irony, insinuation, conceptual change, accommodation, linguistic underdeterminacy, language conventions and speech act norms.

I am currently preparing a monograph Unspoken Meanings: An Essay on Insinuation and Other Forms of Non-Overt Speech and leading a project Lexicalized Concepts from the Perspectives of Meaning Eliminativism and Dynamic Conventionalism: An Austinian Account of Conceptual Change and Amelioration, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2024/53/B/HS1/00590).