Keith Allan

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Keith Allan is affiliated with the following schools: University of Edinburgh, Monash University

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According to Wikipedia, Keith Allan, FAHA is an Australian linguist and Emeritus Professor at Monash University. Allan sees language as a form of social interactive behaviour and believes this to be an important consideration in any thorough account of meaning in natural language. While he is interested in all aspects of meaning in language, his main interests are semantics, pragmatics, linguistic meta-theory and the history and philosophy of linguistics.

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Keith Allan 's Published Works

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Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon (1991) (281)
Classifiers (2015) (235)
Nouns and Countability (1980) (201)
Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language (2006) (164)
Formation of biphasic constructs containing cartilage with a calcified zone interface. (2007) (107)
Euphemism & Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon (1993) (89)
Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (2015) (75)
The pragmatics of connotation (2007) (72)
The connotations of English colour terms: Colour-based X-phemisms (2009) (60)
Hierarchies and the choice of left conjuncts (with particular attention to English) (1987) (48)
The component functions of the high Rise terminal contour in Australian declarative sentences (1984) (46)
Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics (2009) (43)
Natural Language Semantics (2001) (41)
When is a slur not a slur? The use of nigger in ‘Pulp Fiction’ (2015) (39)
Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages (2008) (38)
The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language (2018) (37)
Clause-type, primary illocution, and mood-like operators in English (2006) (35)
Forbidden Words: List of figures (2006) (34)
Doing Ethical Research (2010) (33)
INTERPRETING ENGLISH COMPARATIVES (1986) (28)
The anthropocentricity of the English word(s) back (1995) (24)
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics (2015) (23)
Semantics in Generative Grammar [Book Review] (1997) (23)
Speech Act Theory: An Overview (2001) (21)
The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics (2007) (21)
Pragmemes and theories of language use (2016) (21)
The Reporting of Slurs (2016) (19)
What is Common Ground (2013) (18)
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics (2013) (17)
Pragmatics in the history of linguistic thought (2012) (16)
Salience and defaults in utterance processing (2011) (16)
Referring as a pragmatic act (2010) (16)
Pragmatics: The State of the Art: An Online Interview with Keith Allan. (2015) (14)
Reports, Indirect Reports, and Illocutionary Point (2016) (14)
Beyond the sentence : discourse and sentential form (1986) (14)
X-phemism and creativity (2012) (13)
Meaning and speech acts (1998) (13)
Coherence and Composition: A Symposium (1986) (13)
Hearers, overhearers, and Clark & Carlson's informative analysis (1986) (13)
Aristotle's footprints in the linguist's garden (2004) (13)
A Benchmark for Politeness (2016) (12)
Utterance uses of visible bodily action (2018) (12)
Book Reviews: Toward a Cognitive Semantics, Volume I: Concept Structuring Systems, Volume II: Typology and Process in Concept Structuring (2001) (12)
Where have all the adjectives gone? and other essays in semantics and syntax. By ROBERT M. W. DIXON. Berlin: Mouton, 1982. Pp. xiv, 256. DM 68.00. (2016) (11)
Interpreting from context (1981) (10)
Pragmatics: The state of the art (2015) (10)
Euphemism, dysphemism, and cross-varietal synonymy. (1988) (9)
Getting a grip on context as a determinant of meaning (2018) (9)
Forbidden Words: Food and smell (2006) (9)
Graded salience: Probabilistic meanings in the lexicon (2011) (8)
Linguistics and communication (2020) (7)
Vantage Theory and linguistic relativity (2010) (7)
A history of semantics (2016) (7)
The Pragmeme of Insult and Some Allopracts (2016) (7)
Referring to ‘What Counts as the Referent’: A View from Linguistics (2013) (6)
Contextual determinants on the meaning of the N word (2016) (6)
Vantage theory, VT2, and number (2002) (6)
Qualitative exploration of a targeted school‐based mindfulness course in England (2018) (6)
Dictionaries and encyclopedias: relationship (2006) (5)
Inference: Abduction, Induction, Deduction (2006) (5)
In reply to ‘There1, there2’ (1972) (5)
Mood, clause types and illocutionary force (2006) (5)
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Three Potential Slurring Terms (2019) (5)
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics: Pragmatics in the (English) lexicon (2012) (5)
Co-creating and Co-producing Research Evidence (2019) (5)
Cultural Linguistics and Ageing: What Naming Practices in Australian English Can Reveal About Underlying Cultural Conceptualisations (2017) (5)
Nation, Tribalism and National Language: Nigeria's Case (1978) (4)
Book Reviews:Systems of Nominal Classification. Language, Culture and Cognition 4 (2002) (4)
Singularity and plurality in English noun phrases : a study in grammar and pragmatics (1978) (4)
Thanks to reviewers (2013) (4)
Colors and vantage theory (1999) (3)
Euphemism as a Word-Formation Process : Lexis, Journal in English Lexicology 7 (2012) (3)
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics: Interfaces and the delimitation of pragmatics (2012) (3)
The semantics of English quantifiers (1999) (3)
Taboo words and language (2018) (3)
Categorizing Percepts: Vantage Theory (2006) (3)
Proceedings of ALS2K, the 2000 conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (2001) (2)
Introduction : Pragmatic objects and pragmatic methods (2011) (2)
Pragmatics in language change and lexical creativity (2016) (2)
Some English terms of insult invoking sex organs: Evidence of a pragmatic driver for semantics (2014) (2)
'Raising gooseflesh' 'dirty' words and language change. (1992) (2)
The English Language and Linguistics Companion (2010) (2)
Australian Journal of Linguistics (2012) (2)
Forbidden Words: Bad language? Jargon, slang, swearing and insult (2006) (2)
Chapter 5. Salience in language production (2011) (2)
Vantage Theory: developments and extensions. Introduction (2010) (2)
Forbidden Words: Taboo, naming and addressing (2006) (2)
Metalanguage versus Object Language (2006) (2)
Aristotles footprints in the linguists garden (2004) (1)
Forbidden Words: Taboos and their origins (2006) (1)
Taboo, censoring and the human brain (2006) (1)
The Lexicon and Quantity Implicatures (1999) (1)
Linguistic Meaning (Rle Linguistics a: General Linguistics) (1986) (1)
Forbidden Words: Sweet talking and offensive language (2006) (1)
Religious and ideologically motivated taboos (2018) (1)
On the semantics of cup (2020) (1)
‘The Best Architect Designed This Church’: Definite Descriptions in Default Semantics (2011) (1)
Taboos and quirks of human behaviour (2010) (1)
A Death in Late Victorian Dublin (2017) (1)
Discourse and Conversation (2010) (1)
Co-production (2019) (1)
Nominal Classification: A history of its study from the classical period to the present (Amsterdam, 2013) (2014) (1)
The interdependence of common ground and context (2017) (1)
From a to the (2001) (1)
Sense, Reference, Denotation, Extension and Intension (2003) (1)
Semantics: An Overview (2003) (1)
On Cups (2020) (1)
Color and cognition in Mesoamerica: Constructing categories as vantages By Robert E. MacLaury (review) (2015) (1)
Pragmemes (2020) (1)
Forbidden Words: Linguistic purism and verbal hygiene (2006) (1)
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics: Introduction (2012) (1)
Old Age Revolution in Australian English: Rethinking a taboo concept (2018) (1)
Censorship and censoring (2007) (1)
Chapter 18. Discourse strategems in a Maasai story (1990) (1)
From Pictures to Writing (2010) (1)
ANOTHER ANALYSIS OF THE 'THIRSTY BULL' STORY IN GOONIYANDI (1989) (1)
Forbidden Words: References (2006) (0)
Beyond the sentence: Discourse and sentential form Ed. by Jessica R. Wirth (review) (2015) (0)
Semantics: A bibliography, 1965-1978 By W. Terrence Gordon (review) (2015) (0)
How to Infer What Was Meant@@@Linguistic Meaning (1990) (0)
Defining pragmatics (review) (2012) (0)
Worlds, words and reference: Old ground revisited (2000) (0)
Researching Applied Linguistics (2010) (0)
Forbidden Words: The language of political correctness (2006) (0)
Forbidden Words: Notes (2006) (0)
DYSPHEMISM , AND CROSS-VARIETAL SYNONYMY * (2005) (0)
Lexis E-Journal in English Lexicology: Euphemism as a Word-Formation Process (2012) (0)
Linguistic Society of America (2007) (0)
Linguistic Society of America (2007) (0)
Linguistic semantics and pragmatics from earliest times (2009) (0)
What makes a compliant Phase III and pre-launch patient advocacy strategy? (2016) (0)
Researching Phonetics and Phonology (2010) (0)
Forbidden Words: Disease, death and killing (2006) (0)
Ibupropfen-crystal aggregates containing drug. (1987) (0)
A Note from the Editor: Thanks to All AJL's Reviewers (2012) (0)
Researching Discourse and Conversation (2010) (0)
Politeness, Orthophemism, Euphemism and Dysphemism (2005) (0)
Phrastic, neustic, tropic: Hare's trichotomy (2006) (0)
The Interpretation of English Noun Phrase Sequences on the Computer (1987) (0)
Pragmatics: cooperative principle (2003) (0)
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Semantics Editor) (2003) (0)
Truth is what the context makes of it (2022) (0)
A BRIEF REJOINDER TO MCGREGOR'S POSTSCRIPT (1989) (0)
Prolegomena to inferential discourse processing By Roger G. van de Velde (review) (2015) (0)
Semantics and pragmatics: a historical review to the end of the twentieth century (2019) (0)
Semantics in Generative Grammar, by Irene Heim and Angelika Kratzer (1998) (0)
Publications received (2001) (0)
The Ndebele spelling system: a missing link between phonology and orthography (2006) (0)
Morphology—Word Structures (2010) (0)
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics: References (2012) (0)
Phonology—Sound Systems in Languages (2010) (0)
Meaning, Maxims, and Speech Acts (2010) (0)
John A. Lucy, Language diversity and thought: A reformulation of the linguistic relativity hypothesis . (Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language, 12). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 328. Hb $59.95, pb $22.95. (1994) (0)
The English Language and Linguistic Companion (2010) (0)
Sidescan sonar system (1980) (0)
Exploring young women’s perspectives of a targeted support programme for teenage parents (2018) (0)
What is linguistics (2015) (0)
A pharmaceutical composition containing ibuprofen and process for production thereof (1987) (0)
Researching Cognitive Linguistics (2010) (0)
Interpreting Apollonius Dyscolous on mood and psuchiche diathesis (2006) (0)
Discussion (1968) (0)
Fundamentals of Semantics and Pragmatics (2010) (0)
J. P. B. Allen & P. van Buren (eds), Chomsky: selected readings . (Language and Language Learning Series No. 31.) London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. ix + 166. (1974) (0)
Servant-Leadership, Forgiveness, and Unlimited Liability: Fathers and Sons (2006) (0)
Researching the History of Language(s) (2010) (0)
There is no subjunctive in English (2007) (0)
Coherence and composition: A symposium Ed. by Nils Erik Enkvist (review) (2015) (0)
Some Key Linguists (2010) (0)
Researching General and Theoretical Linguistics (2010) (0)
Mass terms: Some philosophical problems Ed. by Francis J. Pelletier (review) (2015) (0)
Adjectives and comparison in English: A semantic study By Jan Rusiecki (review) (2015) (0)
3. The semantics of the perfect progressive in English (2012) (0)
Semantics in generative grammar (1998) (0)
Researching Semantics and Pragmatics (2010) (0)
Seniors, Older People, the Elderly, Oldies, and Old People: What Language Reveals about Stereotypes of Ageing in Australia (2021) (0)
Letters to Language (2012) (0)
Digital Tools in Linguistics (2010) (0)
Review of 'Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices', by Alexandra Y Aikhenvald (2001) (0)
1 Introduction Pragmatic objects and pragmatic methods (2011) (0)
Talmy Givón, Mind, code and context: essays in pragmatics. Hillsdale, NJ and London: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989. Pp. xviii + 456. (1991) (0)
Chapter 7. Understanding acronyms: The time course of accesibility (2011) (0)
Forbidden Words: Sex and bodily effluvia (2006) (0)
Direct granulation of ibuprofen (1987) (0)
Review of 'The Whorf Theory Complex: A Critical Reconstruction', by Penny Lee (2000) (0)
Semantics from different points of view Edited by Rainer Bäuerle, Urs Egli, and Arnim von Stechow (review) (2015) (0)
Phonetics –The Science of Speech Sounds (2010) (0)
Chapter 8. Graded salience: Probabilistic meanings in the lexicon (2011) (0)
Defining common ground without runaway recursion (2011) (0)
Book Review : An introduction to Discourse Analysis (1987) (0)
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics: Notes (2012) (0)
On the semantic frames of be and possessive have (1998) (0)
Key Terms and Concepts in Linguistics (2010) (0)
Researching Functionalist Approaches to Language (2010) (0)

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