Wrestling with Words and Meanings

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Essays in Honour of Keith Allan

By Reka Benczes and Kate Burridge

Series: Linguistics Series

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Wrestling with Words and Meanings celebrates the distinguished career of Professor Allan on his 70th birthday. This volume features contributions from leading linguistics researchers—colleagues, collaborators, and former students—all inspired by Allan's work. The essays explore three core areas: word meaning; pragmatics and discourse; and semantic theory and philosophy of language. Covering perspectives from corpus, cognitive, and cultural linguistics to descriptive, diachronic, and typological approaches, this collection honours a remarkable scholar.
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This book is ideal for linguistics researchers, advanced students, and academics interested in semantics, pragmatics, and language philosophy.

Honours life & career of Professor Allan, also commemorating the occasion of his 70th birthday. Brings together top-level researchers in linguistics -- colleagues, collaborators & former students, who have all been inspired by Keith's work in some way. Burridge at Monash.

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This book honours the life and career of Professor Allan, commemorating at the same time the occasion of his 70th birthday. It brings together top-level researchers in linguistics—colleagues, collaborators, and former students—who have all been inspired by Keith's work in some way.

These appropriately eclectic contributions are organised into the three main themes that run through Allan's multifaceted and multifarious research: word meaning; pragmatics and discourse; and semantic theory and philosophy of language.

The volume offers glimpses into corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and cultural linguistics, as well as the more traditional descriptive, diachronic, and typological perspectives. It is an outstanding collection in honour of an outstanding researcher.

Wrestling with Words and Meanings is a testament to the influence and legacy of Professor Allan's work in the field of linguistics.

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By Reka Benczes and Kate Burridge

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ISBN: 9781922235312

Publisher: Monash University Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2014

Country: Australia

Imprint: Monash University Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 656g

Pages: 448

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Education & Reference Kate Burridge Non-Fiction Reka Benczes Series: Linguistics Series

About the Author

Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University. Her research interests include grammatical change in Germanic languages, the notion of linguistic taboo, and the structure and history of English. Her books include Forbidden Words (with Keith Allan, 2006), Introducing English Grammar (with Kersti Borjars, 2010) and Gift of the Gob: Morsels of English language history (2010). Reka Benczes is Assistant Professor at Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest, Hungary), and currently Visiting Scholar at Indiana University (Bloomington, USA). Her main fields of interest are cognitive semantics, linguistic creativity and compounding. Books include Creative Compounding in English (2006) and Kognitiv nyelveszet, an introduction to cognitive linguistics in Hungarian (2010, with Zoltan Kovecses).

Wrestling with Words and Meanings