The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language

Edited by Keith Allan, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Monash University

Keith Allan is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Monash University and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland. His research interests include the history and philosophy of linguistics, and aspects of meaning in language. His many books include Linguistic Meaning (Routledge, 1986; reissued 2014), Natural Language Semantics (Blackwell, 2001), and The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics (Equinox, 2007; 2nd ed. 2010). He is the co-editor of multiple volumes, including The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (with Kasia Jaszczolt; CUP, 2012), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics (OUP, 2012), and The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics (Routledge, 2015).

Contributors:

Keith Allan, Monash University

Luvell Anderson, Rutgers University

Gabriele Azzaro, University of Bologna

Réka Benczes, Corvinus University of Budapest

Barry J. Blake, La Trobe University

Stanley H. Brandes, University of California, Berkeley

Kate Burridge, Monash University

Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez, University of Malaga

Eliecer Crespo-Fernández, University of Castile-La Mancha

Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University

Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of London

Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein, Emory University

Jami Fisher, University of Pennsylvania

Christopher Hutton, University of Hong Kong

Jack Hoeksema, University of Groningen

Timothy B. Jay, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Gene Mirus, Gallaudet University

Donna Jo Napoli, Swarthmore College

Barnaby Ralph, Seikei University

Toby Ralph, University of Queensland

Elijah Wald, musician and author