Kasia M. Jaszczolt is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Her research interests include (i) the compositionality and dynamicity of discourse meaning, and (ii) the human concept of time in the context of the concept of the self and how the two are expressed in different languages. She is the author of the OUP volumes Default Semantics (2005), Representing Time (2009), and Meaning in Linguistic Interaction (2016), and co-editor of Time: Language, Cognition, and Reality (with Louis de Saussure; OUP 2013) and Expressing the Self: Cultural Diversity and Cognitive Universals (with Minyao Huang; OUP 2018).