Keith Allan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3671078 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Keith Allan |
| PRENOMES | Keith |
| SOBRENOME | Allan |
| ASSINATURA | ALLAN K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Linguistics, Monash University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 151 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Pleasure and Pain in Taboo Exploitation
The taboo exploitation examined in this essay is swearing. Swearing intersects in complex ways with the giving and taking of pleasure and concomitantly coping with pain or, conversely, craving to inflict pain. Swearing is normally restricted to colloquial styles because it is commonly perceived to breach the rules of courtesy by offending against standards of good taste and good manners. The breaking of this taboo is an emotional release. Swearin…
The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language
The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language defines taboo as a proscription of behaviour for a specifiable community of one or more persons at a specifiable time in specifiable contexts. What is in fact tabooed is the use of those words and language in certain contexts; in short, the taboo applies to instances of language behaviour. For behaviour to be proscribed it must be perceived as in some way harmful to an individual or their community …
Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language
This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. In general, taboo is defined as a proscription of behaviour for a specific community, time, and context. In terms of language, taboo applies to instances of language behaviour: the use of certain words in certain contexts. The existence of linguistic taboos and their managem…
An anthropological approach to taboo words and language
The anthropological approach to taboo words and language begins with an understanding and acceptance of cultural relativity. Anthropologists are keenly aware that everyday speech that might be perfectly decorous in one society is often laughable or, in extreme cases, scandalous in another. Anthropologists also identify taboo words and language by popular responses to their utterance. According to anthropological definitions, tabooed behavior-be i…
Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use
Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics
Lexical semantics is the study of what words mean. In particular, lexical semantics as opposed to formal semantics involves the study of open class words like adjectives, common nouns and verbs, as opposed to functional class words, which contribute to the logical structure of the language – quantifiers, connectives and many adverbs. The latter have been studied in compositional semantics, which uses formal languages like higher-order logic and t…
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics
In the Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics leading scholars from around the world explore and discuss the complex of interconnected approaches, skills, and tasks that has characterized the study of language for more than two-and-a-half millennia. These include: understanding how languages originate and change; describing the nature and development of signing and writing systems; investigations of human speech sounds; the description and…
Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics
In this outstanding book leading scholars from around the world examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurolinguistics, explore linguistic traditions in east and west, chronicle centuries of explanations for language structures, meanings, and usage, and look at how it has been practically applied. This handbook makes a significant contribution to th…
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics
Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from an utterance in the context of its use. This Handbook surveys pragmatics from different perspectives, presenting the main theories in pragmatic research, incorporating seminal research as well as cutting-edge solutions. It addresses questions of rational and empirical research methods, what…
Letters to Language
Letters to Language Mira Ariel and Keith Allan Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties are included as warranted. July 2, 2012 To the Editor: According to Keith Allan (Language 88.2. 413-16), I am constantly…
Vantage Theory
Vantage Theory and linguistic relativity
Referring as a pragmatic act
The connotations of English colour terms
The pragmatics of connotation
Forbidden Words
Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are 'sweet-talking', 'straight-talking' or being deliberately rude. Using a…
Clause-type, primary illocution, and mood-like operators in English
Aristotle's footprints in the linguist's garden
Vantage theory, VT2, and number
Color and Cognition in Mesoamerica
Colors and vantage theory
Euphemism & Dysphemism
How to Infer What Was Meant
Linguistic Meaning
Classifiers
The investigation of data from many languages has the following results: (a) the characteristics of classifier languages are distinguished, and four types are identified; (b) defining criteria are postulated for classifiers, and it is discovered that every classifier is composed of one or more out of seven categories of classification. It is argued that classifiers typically index some perceived characteristic of the phenomenon to which the class…
The pragmatics of connotation
Nouns and Countability
The customary disjunctive marking of lexical entries for English nouns as [± countable] does not match the fact that the majority can be used both countably and uncountably in different NP environments: this binary opposition is characteristic not of the nouns, but of the NP's which they head. Nevertheless, nouns do have countability preferences; some enter countable environments more readily than others. And not all nouns occur in all kinds of c…
Referring as a pragmatic act
The connotations of English colour terms
Hierarchies and the choice of left conjuncts (with particular attention to English)
Over the last decade or so, hierarchies such as the animacy hierarchy, the personal hierarchy, the case hierarchy, the definiticity and referentiality hierarchies and so forth have been identified as determinants of constituent order. It is my intention in this paper to review the set of hierarchies and rank them as determinants of NP sequencing in English. I shall from time to time compare and contrast the effect of a hierarchy in other language…
Clause-type, primary illocution, and mood-like operators in English
Vantage theory, VT2, and number
An anthropological approach to taboo words and language
The anthropological approach to taboo words and language begins with an understanding and acceptance of cultural relativity. Anthropologists are keenly aware that everyday speech that might be perfectly decorous in one society is often laughable or, in extreme cases, scandalous in another. Anthropologists also identify taboo words and language by popular responses to their utterance. According to anthropological definitions, tabooed behavior-be i…
Interpreting from context
The Pleasure and Pain in Taboo Exploitation
The taboo exploitation examined in this essay is swearing. Swearing intersects in complex ways with the giving and taking of pleasure and concomitantly coping with pain or, conversely, craving to inflict pain. Swearing is normally restricted to colloquial styles because it is commonly perceived to breach the rules of courtesy by offending against standards of good taste and good manners. The breaking of this taboo is an emotional release. Swearin…
Topic Continuity in Discourse
Nation, Tribalism and National Language
K. Allan — Nation, tribalisme et langue nationale : le cas du Nigeria. Le Nigeria présente, même à l'échelle africaine, un cas extrême de multilinguisme. L'auteur étudie en détail les avantages et les inconvénients du choix d'une langue africaine comme langue nationale et conclut que les effets d'un tel choix ayant toutes les chances d'être négatifs, la solution la moins mauvaise est de conserver l'anglais
Vantage Theory and linguistic relativity
Hearers, Overhearers, and Clark & Carlson's Informative Analysis
HEARERS, OVERHEARERS, AND CLARK & CARLSON'S INFORMATIVE ANALYSIS Keith Allan Monash University Clark & Carlson 1982 claim that 'every traditional illocutionary act is performed by means of an informative' ; they therefore propose an additional initial informative illocution to every speech act analysis envisaged by previous theories. I show that C&C's analysis is unjustified; they apparently confuse perlocutionary effects of utterances or coopera…
In reply to ‘ There 1 , there 2 ’
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Classifiers
The investigation of data from many languages has the following results: (a) the characteristics of classifier languages are distinguished, and four types are identified; (b) defining criteria are postulated for classifiers, and it is discovered that every classifier is composed of one or more out of seven categories of classification. It is argued that classifiers typically index some perceived characteristic of the phenomenon to which the class…
Nation, Tribalism and National Language
K. Allan — Nation, tribalisme et langue nationale : le cas du Nigeria. Le Nigeria présente, même à l'échelle africaine, un cas extrême de multilinguisme. L'auteur étudie en détail les avantages et les inconvénients du choix d'une langue africaine comme langue nationale et conclut que les effets d'un tel choix ayant toutes les chances d'être négatifs, la solution la moins mauvaise est de conserver l'anglais
Mass Terms
Nouns and Countability
The customary disjunctive marking of lexical entries for English nouns as [± countable] does not match the fact that the majority can be used both countably and uncountably in different NP environments: this binary opposition is characteristic not of the nouns, but of the NP's which they head. Nevertheless, nouns do have countability preferences; some enter countable environments more readily than others. And not all nouns occur in all kinds of c…
Shorter notices
Christiane A.M. Baltaxe, Foundations of distinctive feature theory. Baltimore: University Park Press, 1978. Pp. xx + 219. Glen G. Gilbert (ed. & trans.), Pidgin and creole languages: selected essays by Hugo Schuchardt. Cambridge: University Press, 1980. Pp. vii + 157. T.L. Markey (ed. & trans.), The ethnography of variation: selected writings on pidgins and creoles by Hugo Schuchardt. Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers, 1979. Pp. 152. Timothy Shopen (e…
The Semantics of English Aspectual Complementation
I. Methodology and Theoretical Assumptions.- 1.1. Theoretical Framework.- 1.2. Methods of Analysis: Presupposition and Consequence.- 1.3. Aspect.- 1.3.1. Aspectual Constructions.- 1.3.2. Aspectual Distinctions.- 1.3.3. Aspectualizers Defined.- 1.4. The Corpus.- II. Aspectualizers and Events.- 2.1. Why an Event Analysis.- 2.2. The Philosophical Treatment of Events.- 2.3. A Temporal Analysis of Events.- 2.3.1. A Description of Onset, Nucleus, and C…
Semantics
Semantics from Different Points of View
On Semantics
Interpreting from context
Language and Other Abstract Objects
Where Have All the Adjectives Gone? And Other Essays in Semantics and Syntax
Interpreting English Comparatives
This paper attempts to clarify the way in which we interpret English comparatives. It shows that recognition of a comparative depends primarily on the recognition of the comparative operator, cl. The cl has two constituents (1) a comparative marker which, because there are less than a dozen of them, makes cl readily recognizable; and (2) a scale marker. I argue that comparisons are made on a particular scale, and that scales have a supra end and …
Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing
This book shows that in reading verbal texts human reasoning is responsible for the recognition and construction of different forms of organization. On the one hand, it spells out in what ways human thinking succeeds in recognizing the surface form of grammatical organization which is characteristic of discourse expression (termed ‘cohesion’). On the other hand, it makes clear which human reasoning processes are involved in the construction of th…
Adjectives and Comparison in English
Beyond the Sentence
Coherence and Composition
Hearers, Overhearers, and Clark & Carlson's Informative Analysis
HEARERS, OVERHEARERS, AND CLARK & CARLSON'S INFORMATIVE ANALYSIS Keith Allan Monash University Clark & Carlson 1982 claim that 'every traditional illocutionary act is performed by means of an informative' ; they therefore propose an additional initial informative illocution to every speech act analysis envisaged by previous theories. I show that C&C's analysis is unjustified; they apparently confuse perlocutionary effects of utterances or coopera…
Structured Meanings
Noun Classes and Categorization
The Interpretation of English Noun Phrase Sequences on the Computer
Hierarchies and the choice of left conjuncts (with particular attention to English)
Over the last decade or so, hierarchies such as the animacy hierarchy, the personal hierarchy, the case hierarchy, the definiticity and referentiality hierarchies and so forth have been identified as determinants of constituent order. It is my intention in this paper to review the set of hierarchies and rank them as determinants of NP sequencing in English. I shall from time to time compare and contrast the effect of a hierarchy in other language…
Topic Continuity in Discourse
Linguistic Meaning
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