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  1. Linguistics and communication

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, June 2020, De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  2. Pragmemes

    Article • January 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  3. Religious and ideologically motivated taboos

    Article • November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Keith Allan

  4. Taboo words and language

    Article • November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  6. A Death in Late Victorian Dublin

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  7. Contextual determinants on the meaning of the N word

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

    Professor Keith Allan

  8. Taboo

    Article • April 2016, Wiley

    Professor Keith Allan

  9. Pragmatics in language change and lexical creativity

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

    Professor Keith Allan

  10. The Reporting of Slurs

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  11. Reports, Indirect Reports, and Illocutionary Point

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  12. The Pragmeme of Insult and Some Allopracts

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • Language Sciences, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  14. A Benchmark for Politeness

    Article • August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  15. 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

  16. Common ground

    Article • November 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  17. Editorial Note

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

    Professor Keith Allan

  18. Introduction

    Article • March 2013

    Professor Keith Allan

  19. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics

    Article • March 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Keith Allan

  20. What is Common Ground?

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Keith Allan

  22. X-phemism and creativity

    Article • Lexis, June 2012, OpenEdition

    Professor Keith Allan

  23. Defining pragmatics (review)

    Article • Language, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

  24. The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics

    Article • January 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  25. Letters to Language

    Article • Language, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

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

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

    Professor Keith Allan

  27. Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing

    Article • January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  28. Chapter 1. Introduction

    Article • January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  29. General semantics

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  30. Referring as a pragmatic act

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  31. Vantage Theory: developments and extensions

    Article • Language Sciences, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  32. Vantage Theory and linguistic relativity

    Article • Language Sciences, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, March 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  34. 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

  35. The pragmatics of connotation

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, June 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  36. Forbidden Words

    Article • January 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • Language Sciences, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • Language Sciences, July 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  39. Linguistic metatheory

    Article • Language Sciences, November 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  40. Vantage theory, VT2, and number

    Article • Language Sciences, September 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  41. From a to the

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

    Professor Keith Allan

  42. From a to the

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

    Professor Keith Allan

  43. Colors and vantage theory

    Article • Language Sciences, October 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

  44. General semantics

    Article • April 1995, John Benjamins

    Professor Keith Allan

  45. A BRIEF REJOINDER TO MCGREGOR'S POSTSCRIPT

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

    Professor Keith Allan

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

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

    Professor Keith Allan

  47. Linguistic Meaning

    Article • Language, March 1988, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  48. Structured Meanings: The Semantics of Propositional Attitudes

    Article • Language, March 1987, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

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

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

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • Language, September 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  51. Coherence and Composition: A Symposium

    Article • Language, September 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  52. Beyond the Sentence: Discourse and Sentential Form

    Article • Language, September 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  53. Adjectives and Comparison in English: A Semantic Study

    Article • Language, September 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  54. Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing

    Article • Language, September 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  55. INTERPRETING ENGLISH COMPARATIVES

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

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • Language, January 1986, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • Language, January 1986, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

  58. Language and Other Abstract Objects

    Article • Language, September 1983, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  59. On Semantics

    Article • Language, December 1981, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  60. The Semantics of English Aspectual Complementation

    Article • Language, June 1981, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  61. Semantics: A Bibliography, 1965-1978

    Article • Language, March 1981, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  62. Interpreting from context

    Article • Lingua, February 1981, Elsevier

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • Language, January 1981, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

  64. Nouns and Countability

    Article • Language, September 1980, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  65. Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems

    Article • Language, June 1980, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • Language, January 1980, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

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

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

    Professor Keith Allan

  68. Classifiers

    Article • Language, June 1977, JSTOR

    Professor Keith Allan

  69. Classifiers

    Article • Language, January 1977, Project Muse

    Professor Keith Allan

  70. In reply to ‘ There1, there2’

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

    Professor Keith Allan

  71. Introduction

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  72. Pragmatics in the (English) lexicon

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  73. Notes

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  74. References

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  75. Chapter 18. Discourse strategems in a Maasai story

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

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

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Keith Allan

  77. Taboos and their origins

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  78. Sweet talking and offensive language

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  79. The language of political correctness

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  80. Linguistic purism and verbal hygiene

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  81. Taboo, naming and addressing

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  82. Sex and bodily effluvia

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  83. Food and smell

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  84. Disease, death and killing

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan

  85. Taboo, censoring and the human brain

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Keith Allan