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  1. The Characterization of Concepts in a Metalanguage for Lexicographic Semantics

    Article • Topoi, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  2. What is Australian slang? Is it really slang?

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith Allan

  3. Language and Thinking: Principles of Famous Linguists

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  4. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Names and Naming

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  5. Establishing common ground to achieve therapeutic goals

    Article • October 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  6. Semantics and Pragmatics

    Article • August 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  7. Why truth is necessarily pragmatic

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, June 2023, De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  8. Truth is what the context makes of it

    Article • Claridades Revista de Filosofía, November 2022, Malaga University

    Professor Keith Allan

  9. General semantics

    Article • August 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  10. Obscenity, slurs, and taboo

    Article • March 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  11. Seniors, Older People, the Elderly, Oldies, and Old People: What Language Reveals about Stereotypes of Ageing in Australia

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  12. Linguistics and communication

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, June 2020, De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  13. Pragmemes

    Article • January 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  14. On Cups

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  15. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Three Potential Slurring Terms

    Article • October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  16. Religious and ideologically motivated taboos

    Article • November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Keith Allan

  17. Taboo words and language

    Article • November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Keith Allan

  18. Getting a grip on context as a determinant of meaning

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  19. A Death in Late Victorian Dublin

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  20. Contextual determinants on the meaning of the N word

    Article • SpringerPlus, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  21. Taboo

    Article • April 2016, Wiley

    Professor Keith Allan

  22. Pragmatics in language change and lexical creativity

    Article • SpringerPlus, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  23. The Reporting of Slurs

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  24. Reports, Indirect Reports, and Illocutionary Point

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  25. The Pragmeme of Insult and Some Allopracts

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  26. When is a slur not a slur? The use of nigger in ‘Pulp Fiction’

    Article • Language Sciences, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  27. A Benchmark for Politeness

    Article • August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  28. Nominal Classification: A history of its study from the classical period to the present. By Marcin Kilarski

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, November 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  29. Common ground

    Article • November 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  30. Editorial Note

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith Allan

  31. Introduction

    Article • March 2013

    Professor Keith Allan

  32. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics

    Article • March 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Keith Allan

  33. What is Common Ground?

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  34. Referring to ‘What Counts as the Referent’: A View from Linguistics

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  35. 3. The semantics of the perfect progressive in English

    Article • June 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  36. X-phemism and creativity

    Article • Lexis, June 2012, OpenEdition

    Professor Keith Allan

  37. Defining pragmatics (review)

    Article • Language, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

  38. The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics

    Article • January 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  39. Letters to Language

    Article • Language, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

  40. ‘The Best Architect Designed This Church’: Definite Descriptions in Default Semantics

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith Allan

  41. Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing

    Article • January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  42. Chapter 1. Introduction

    Article • January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  43. General semantics

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  44. Referring as a pragmatic act

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  45. Vantage Theory: developments and extensions

    Article • Language Sciences, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  46. Vantage Theory and linguistic relativity

    Article • Language Sciences, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  47. Swearing

    Article • July 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  48. The connotations of English colour terms: Colour-based X-phemisms

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, March 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  49. Review of Peeters (2006): Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages

    Article • Studies in Language, April 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  50. The pragmatics of connotation

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, June 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  51. Forbidden Words

    Article • January 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  52. Clause-type, primary illocution, and mood-like operators in English

    Article • Language Sciences, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  53. Aristotle's footprints in the linguist's garden

    Article • Language Sciences, July 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  54. Linguistic metatheory

    Article • Language Sciences, November 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  55. Vantage theory, VT2, and number

    Article • Language Sciences, September 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  56. From a to the

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, April 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith Allan

  57. From a to the

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, April 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith Allan

  58. Colors and vantage theory

    Article • Language Sciences, October 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  59. The semantics of English quantifiers

    Article • May 1999, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  60. On the semantic frames of be and possessive have

    Article • May 1998, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  61. General semantics

    Article • April 1995, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  62. A BRIEF REJOINDER TO MCGREGOR'S POSTSCRIPT

    Article • Journal of Literary Semantics, January 1989, De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  63. ANOTHER ANALYSIS OF THE 'THIRSTY BULL' STORY IN GOONIYANDI

    Article • Journal of Literary Semantics, January 1989, De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  64. Linguistic Meaning

    Article • Language, March 1988, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  65. Structured Meanings: The Semantics of Propositional Attitudes

    Article • Language, March 1987, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  66. Hierarchies and the choice of left conjuncts (with particular attention to English)

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, March 1987, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  67. Hearers, Overhearers, and Clark & Carlson's Informative Analysis

    Article • Language, September 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  68. Coherence and Composition: A Symposium

    Article • Language, September 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  69. Beyond the Sentence: Discourse and Sentential Form

    Article • Language, September 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  70. Adjectives and Comparison in English: A Semantic Study

    Article • Language, September 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  71. Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing

    Article • Language, September 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  72. INTERPRETING ENGLISH COMPARATIVES

    Article • Journal of Semantics, January 1986, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Keith Allan

  73. Hearers, overhearers, and Clark & Carlson's informative analysis

    Article • Language, January 1986, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

  74. Coherence and composition: A symposium Ed. by Nils Erik Enkvist

    Article • Language, January 1986, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

  75. Language and Other Abstract Objects

    Article • Language, September 1983, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  76. On Semantics

    Article • Language, December 1981, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  77. The Semantics of English Aspectual Complementation

    Article • Language, June 1981, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  78. Semantics: A Bibliography, 1965-1978

    Article • Language, March 1981, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  79. Interpreting from context

    Article • Lingua, February 1981, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  80. Semantics: A bibliography, 1965-1978 By W. Terrence Gordon

    Article • Language, January 1981, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

  81. Nouns and Countability

    Article • Language, September 1980, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  82. Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems

    Article • Language, June 1980, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  83. Mass terms: Some philosophical problems Ed. by Francis J. Pelletier

    Article • Language, January 1980, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

  84. Nation, Tribalism and National Language : Nigeria's Case.

    Article • Cahiers d études africaines, January 1978, PERSEE Program

    Professor Keith Allan

  85. Classifiers

    Article • Language, June 1977, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  86. Classifiers

    Article • Language, January 1977, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

  87. In reply to ‘ There1, there2’

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, April 1972, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  88. Introduction

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  89. Pragmatics in the (English) lexicon

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  90. Notes

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  91. References

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  92. Chapter 18. Discourse strategems in a Maasai story

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  93. Chapter 8. Graded salience: Probabilistic meanings in the lexicon

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  94. Taboos and their origins

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  95. Sweet talking and offensive language

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  96. The language of political correctness

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  97. Linguistic purism and verbal hygiene

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  98. Taboo, naming and addressing

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  99. Sex and bodily effluvia

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  100. Food and smell

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  101. Disease, death and killing

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  102. Taboo, censoring and the human brain

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan