Emeritus Professor Keith Allan

Brief bio & contact

Festschrift

Works in press and in progress

1. Allan, Keith 2026. Exemplifying the pragmatics of communication. PDF
2. Allan, Keith 2022. A few slang terms are very short-lived; but some slang endures for centuries. PDF
3. Allan, Keith 2022. Bloody, 'a great Australian adjective'. PDF
4. Allan, Keith 2020. Language Scholarship, History of. Submitted for the Baker Encyclopedia of Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics ed. by Stanley E. Porter et al. Leiden/Boston: Brill. PDF
5. Allan, Keith 2020. Structural Linguistics. Submitted for the Baker Encyclopedia of Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics ed. by Stanley E. Porter et al. Leiden/Boston: Brill. PDF
6. Allan, Keith 2017. The effects of salience on what is said. PDF
7. Allan, Keith 1998. Meaning and speech acts. HTML

Authored books

1. Allan, Keith 2014. Linguistic Meaning. Re-issued as volume 8 of Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics. London/New York: Routledge. routledge.com
2. Allan, Keith, Julie Bradshaw, Kate Burridge, Geoff Finch, & Georgina Heydon 2010. The English Language and Linguistics Companion. London: Palgrave Macmillan. macmillanihe.com
3. Allan, Keith 2010. The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics. Second expanded edition. London: Equinox. (Pp. xviii+440). equinoxpub.com
4. Allan, Keith 2007. The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics. London: Equinox. (Pp. xv+351)
5. Allan, Keith & Kate Burridge 2006. Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. ix+292. cambridge.org
6. Allan, Keith 2001. Natural Language Semantics. Maldon MA/Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (Pp. xix+529). wiley.com. Answers to exercises: PDF
7. Allan, Keith & Kate Burridge 1991. Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon. New York: Oxford University Press. (Pp. xii+263). amazon.com.au
8. Allan, Keith 1986. Linguistic Meaning. Two Volumes. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Reprinted Beijing: World Publishing Corporation. 1991. (Pp. xxiii+452 & xii+348).

Edited books

1. Allan, Keith (ed.) 2020. Dynamics of Language Changes: Looking Within and Across Languages. Singapore: Springer Nature. (Pp. xii+289). springer.com
2. Allan, Keith (ed.) 2019. The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Pp. xii+448). oup.com
3. Allan, Keith, Istvan Kecskes & Alessandro Capone (eds) 2016. Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use. Cham: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43491-9. springer.com
4. Allan, Keith (ed.) 2015. The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics. Abingdon: Routledge. (Pp. xvi+592). routledge.com
5. Allan, Keith (ed.) 2013. Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Pp. xix+920). oup.com
6. Allan, Keith & Kasia Jaszczolt (eds) 2012. Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Pp. x+776). cambridge.org
7. Allan, Keith & Kasia Jaszczolt (eds) 2011. Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Pp. ix+231). degruyter.com
8. Głaz, Adam & Keith Allan (eds) 2010. Vantage Theory: Developments and Extensions, special issue of Language Sciences 32(2): 151–348.
9. Allan, Keith (ed.) 2009. Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics. Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 848. elsevier.com
10. Allan, Keith 2006. Section editor for Logical and Lexical Semantics, Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics 2nd edition (E. Keith Brown, General editor). 14 volumes. Oxford: Elsevier Science.
11. Allan, Keith (ed.) 2006. Selected Papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. ISBN-13: 978-0-9802815-0-7
12. Allan, Keith 2003. Semantics Editor, Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (William Frawley, General Editor). 4 volumes. Second edn. New York: Oxford University Press.
13. Allan, Keith & John Henderson (eds) 2001. Proceedings of ALS2k, the 2000 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society.
14. Allan, Keith 1991. Semantics Editor, Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (First edition, William Bright, General Editor). 4 volumes. New York: Oxford University Press.

Book chapters

1. Allan, Keith 2024. Language and thinking: principles of famous linguists. In The Handbook of Cultural Linguistics, ed. by Alireza Korangy. Singapore: Springer Nature. Pp. 192–227. doi · PDF
2. Allan, Keith 2024. The semantics and pragmatics of names and naming. In Philosophy, Cognition and Pragmatics, ed. by Alessandro Capone, Pietro Perconti and Roberto Graci. Cham: Springer. Pp. 165–188. doi · PDF
3. Allan, Keith 2023. Semantics and pragmatics. In The Cambridge History of Linguistics, ed. by Linda R. Waugh, Monique Monville-Burston and John E. Joseph. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 618–655. doi
4. Allan, Keith 2023. Establishing common ground to achieve therapeutic goals. In A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare. Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding, ed. by Sarah Bigi and Maria Grazia Rossi. Pp. 252–262. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. DOI 10.1075/pbns.338.10all. PDF
5. Allan, Keith 2023. The interdependence of common ground and context. In Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction, ed. by Istvan Kecskes. Berlin: De Gruyter. Pp. 7–24. DOI: 10.1515/9783110766752-002. PDF
6. Allan, Keith 2022. Obscenity, slurs, and taboo. Handbook of Pragmatics, ed. by Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/hop.24.obs1. PDF
7. Allan, Keith 2020. On the semantics of cup. In Helen Broomhead & Zhengdao Ye (eds), Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka. Canberra: ANU Press. DOI 10.22459/MLC.2020.23. PDF
8. Allan, Keith, Réka Benczes and Kate Burridge 2021. Seniors, older people, the elderly, oldies, and old people: what language reveals about stereotypes of ageing in Australia. In Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics, ed. by Fabrizio Macagno and Alessandro Capone. Pp. 111–125. Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56696-8_6. PDF
9. Allan, Keith 2020. On cups. In Dynamic Language Changes: Looking Within and Across Languages, ed. by Keith Allan. Singapore: Springer Nature. Pp. 125–137. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-6430-7_8. PDF
10. Allan, Keith 2020. The semantics and pragmatics of three potential slurring terms. In Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication: Ethnopragmatics and Semantic Analysis, ed. by Kerry Mullan, Bert Peeters, & Lauren Sadow. Singapore: Springer. Pp. 163–183. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-32-9983-2_9. PDF
11. Allan, Keith 2020. Pragmemes. In Handbook of Pragmatics, ed. by Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. PDF
12. Allan, Keith 2018. Taboo words and language: an overview. In Keith Allan (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 1–27. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808190.013.1. PDF
13. Allan, Keith 2018. Religious and ideologically motivated taboos. In Keith Allan (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 248–263. PDF
14. Allan, Keith 2018. Getting a grip on context as a determinant of meaning. In Alessandro Capone, Marco Carapezza & Franco Lo Piparo (eds), Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy. Part 1. From Theory to Practice. Cham: Springer. Pp. 177–201. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72173-6_9. PDF
15. Benczes, Réka, Kate Burridge, Farzad Sharifian & Keith Allan 2017. Cultural linguistics and ageing: what naming practices in Australian English can reveal about underlying cultural conceptions. In Farzad Sharifian (ed.), Advances in Cultural Linguistics. Singapore: Springer. Pp. 607–624. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4056-6_27
16. Allan, Keith 2017. A death in late Victorian Dublin. In Vahid Parvaresh & Alessandro Capone (eds), The Pragmeme of Accommodation: The Case of Interaction around the Event of Death. Cham: Springer. Pp. 421–439. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55759-5_21. PDF
17. Allan, Keith 2016. The pragmeme of insult and some allopracts. In Keith Allan, Alessandro Capone & Istvan Kesckes (eds), Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use. Cham: Springer. Pp. 69–84. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43491-9_4. PDF
18. Allan, Keith 2016. The reporting of slurs. In Alessandro Capone, Ferenc Kiefer & Franco Lo Piparo (eds), Indirect Reports and Pragmatics. Cham: Springer. Pp. 211–232. PDF
19. Allan, Keith 2016. Reports, indirect reports, and illocutionary point. In Alessandro Capone, Ferenc Kiefer & Franco Lo Piparo (eds), Indirect Reports and Pragmatics. Cham: Springer. Pp. 573–591. PDF
20. Allan, Keith 2016. A history of semantics. In Nick Riemer (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Semantics. Abingdon: Routledge. Pp. 48–68. doi
21. Allan, Keith 2016. What is linguistics? In Keith Allan (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics. Abingdon: Routledge. Pp. 1–16. PDF
22. Allan, Keith 2015. A benchmark for politeness. In Jacob L. Mey & Alessandro Capone (eds), Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society. Cham: Springer. Pp. 397–420. PDF
23. Allan, Keith 2013. Referring to 'what counts as the referent': a view from linguistics. In Alessandro Capone, Franco Lo Piparo & Marco Carapezza (eds), Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics. Cham: Springer. Pp. 263–284.
24. Allan, Keith 2013. What is common ground? In Alessandro Capone, Franco Lo Piparo & Marco Carapezza (eds), Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics. Cham: Springer. Pp. 285–310.
25. Allan, Keith 2013. Common ground — aka "common knowledge", "mutual knowledge", "shared knowledge", "assumed familiarity", "presumed background information". In Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds), Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
26. Allan, Keith 2013. Introduction. In Keith Allan (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 1–12.
27. Allan, Keith 2012. The semantics of the perfect progressive in English. In Luna Filopovic & Kasia Jaszczolt (eds), Space and Time Across, Languages, Disciplines and Cultures: Linguistic Diversity. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 53–71.
28. Allan, Keith & Kasia Jaszczolt 2012. Introduction: pragmatic objects and pragmatic methods. In Keith Allan & Kasia Jaszczolt (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1–20.
29. Allan, Keith 2012. Pragmatics in the (English) lexicon. In Keith Allan & Kasia Jaszczolt (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 227–250.
30. Allan, Keith 2011. Graded salience: probabilistic meanings in the lexicon. In Kasia Jaszczolt & Keith Allan (eds), Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 165–187. doi
31. Allan, Keith & Kasia Jaszczolt 2011. Introduction. In Kasia Jaszczolt & Keith Allan (eds), Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 1–10. doi
32. Allan, Keith 2011. General semantics. In Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds), Pragmatics in Practice. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 153–158.
33. Allan, Keith & Kate Burridge 2009. Swearing. In Pam Peters, Peter Collins & Adam Smith (eds), Comparative Grammatical Studies in Australian and New Zealand English. Pp. 359–384. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi · PDF
34. Allan, Keith 2000a. Quantity implicatures and the lexicon. In Bert Peeters (ed.), The Lexicon-Encyclopedia Interface. Pp. 169–218. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
35. Allan, Keith 2000b. Foreword to Lo que nunca se aprendió en clase: eufemismos y disfemismos en el lenguaje erótico inglés by Francisco Sánchez Benedito and Pedro J. Chamizo Domínguez. Pp. 15–21. Granada: Editorial Comares.
36. Allan, Keith 1999. The semantics of English Quantifiers. In Peter Collins & David Lee (eds), The Clause in English: In Honour of Rodney Huddleston. Pp. 1–31. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
37. Allan, Keith & Kate Burridge 1998a. The X-phemistic value of Romani in non-standard speech. In Yaron Matras (ed.), The Romani Element in Non-Standard Speech. Pp. 29–50. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
38. Allan, Keith 1998b. On the semantic frames of be and 'possessive' have. In Anna Siewierska & Jae Jung Song (eds), Case, Typology and Grammar. Pp. 1–18. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
39. Allan, Keith 1995. General semantics. In Jan Blommaert (ed.), Handbook of Pragmatics. Pp. 307–311. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
40. Allan, Keith 1992a. Body-parts and animals. In Tom Dutton, Darrell Tryon & Malcolm Ross (eds), A Memorial Volume for Donald C. Laycock. Pp. 29–39. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
41. Allan, Keith 1992b. Something that rhymes with rich. In Eva Kittay & Adrienne Lehrer (eds), Frames, Fields, and Contrasts. Pp. 355–374. Norwood NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
42. Allan, Keith 1990. Some English terms of insult invoking sex organs: evidence of a pragmatic driver for semantics. In Savas L. Tsohatzidis (ed.), Belief Systems in Language: Studies in Linguistic Prototypes. Pp. 159–193. London: Routledge.
43. Allan, Keith 1989. Discourse stratagems in a Maasai story. In John Hutchison & Victor Manfredi (eds), Current Issues in African Linguistics. Pp. 179–191. Dordrecht: Foris.
44. Allan, Keith 1987. Language and Speaker's Environment. Environmental Discussion Paper. Monash University Graduate School of Environmental Science.
45. Allan, Keith 1983. Anaphora, cataphora, and topic focusing: functions of the object prefix in Swahili. In Ivan R. Dihoff (ed.), Current Approaches to African Linguistics. Pp. 323–335. New York: Cinnaminson and Dordrecht: Foris.

Journal articles

1. Allan, Keith 2026. The efficacy of names and their place in the lexicon. Lingua 339C 104188. doi
2. Allan, Keith 2024. The characterization of concepts in a metalanguage for lexicographic semantics. Topoi 43. doi
3. Allan, Keith 2023. The pleasure and pain in taboo exploitation. Languages 8(3, 208): 1–18. doi
4. Allan, Keith 2023. Why truth is necessarily pragmatic. Intercultural Pragmatics 20(3): 251–267. doi
5. Allan, Keith 2022. Truth is what the context makes of it (La verdad es lo que el contexto hace de ella). Claridades: Revista de Filosofía 14(2): 15–33. DOI 10.24310/Claridadescrf.v14i2.13620. PDF
6. Allan, Keith 2020. Linguistics and communication. Intercultural Pragmatics 17(3): 293–313. doi · PDF
7. Allan, Keith 2019. Semantics and pragmatics: a historical review to the end of the twentieth century. Argumentum 15: 81–116. PDF
8. Allan, Keith 2016. Pragmatics in language change and lexical creativity. springerplus
9. Allan, Keith 2015. When is a slur not a slur? The use of nigger in 'Pulp Fiction'. Language Sciences 52: 187–199. doi
10. Allan, Keith 2015. Pragmatics: The state of the art (An online interview: Keith Allan and M.A. Salmani Nodoushan). International Journal of Language Studies 9(3): 147–154. link
11. Allan, Keith 2012. X-phemism and creativity. Lexis 7: 5–42. researchgate
12. Allan, Keith 2011. 'The best architect designed this church': definite descriptions in default semantics. Australian Journal of Linguistics 31: 389–409. doi
13. Allan, Keith 2010. Referring as a pragmatic act. Journal of Pragmatics 42: 2919–2931. doi
14. Allan, Keith 2010. Taboos and quirks of human behaviour. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 21: 155–164. koeppe.de
15. Głaz, Adam & Keith Allan 2010. Introduction to 'Vantage Theory: developments and extensions'. Language Sciences 32: 151–157. doi
16. Allan, Keith 2010. Vantage theory and linguistic relativity. Language Sciences 32: 158–169. doi
17. Allan, Keith 2009. The connotations of colour terms: colour based X-phemisms. Journal of Pragmatics 41: 626–637. doi
18. Allan, Keith & Kate Burridge 2007. Taboo, censoring and the human brain. The Fine Print 4: 6–19. PDF
19. Allan, Keith 2007. Censorship and censoring. The International Journal of the Humanities 4(8): 97–108. link
20. Allan, Keith 2007. The pragmatics of connotation. Journal of Pragmatics 39: 1047–1057. doi
21. Allan, Keith 2006. Clause-type, primary illocution, and mood-like operators in English. Language Sciences 28: 1–50. doi
22. Allan, Keith 2005. Politeness, orthophemism, euphemism and dysphemism. International Journal of Humanities 2(1): 1–21. link
23. Allan, Keith 2004. Aristotle's footprints in the linguist's garden. Language Sciences 26: 317–342. doi
24. Allan, Keith 2003. Linguistic metatheory. Language Sciences 25: 533–560. doi
25. Allan, Keith 2002. Vantage theory, VT2, and number. Language Sciences 24: 679–703. (Special issue on Vantage Theory ed. by Robert E. MacLaury.) doi
26. Allan, Keith 2001. From a to the. Australian Journal of Linguistics 21: 73–82. (Special edn on Anaphora, ed. by Lesley Stirling & Peter Austin.) doi
27. Allan, Keith 2000. Worlds, words and reference: old ground revisited. International Journal of Communication 10: 181–210.
28. Allan, Keith 1999. Colors and vantage theory. Language Sciences 21: 449–460. doi
29. Allan, Keith 1995a. What names tell about the lexicon and the encyclopedia. Lexicology 1: 280–325.
30. Allan, Keith 1995b. The anthropocentricity of the English word(s) back. Cognitive Linguistics 6: 11–31. doi
31. Allan, Keith & Kate Burridge 1992. 'Raising gooseflesh': 'Dirty' words and language change. La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics (Linguistics Department, La Trobe University) 5: 51–65.
32. Allan, Keith 1991. Face and the cooperative principle. Semiotica 84: 301–307.
33. Allan, Keith 1989a. Another analysis of the 'Thirsty Bull' story in Gooniyandi. Journal of Literary Semantics 18: 117–139.
34. Allan, Keith 1989b. Rejoinder to McGregor's Postscript. Journal of Literary Semantics 18: 147f.
35. Allan, Keith 1989d. Euphemism, dysphemism and cross-varietal synonymy. La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics (Linguistics Department, La Trobe University) 1: 1–16.
36. Allan, Keith 1987. Hierarchies and the choice of left conjuncts (with particular attention to English). Journal of Linguistics 23: 51–77. doi
37. Allan, Keith 1986a. Interpreting English comparatives. Journal of Semantics 5: 1–50. doi
38. Allan, Keith 1986b. Hearers, overhearers, and Clark and Carlson's informative analysis. Language 62: 509–517. jstor
39. Allan, Keith 1984. The component functions of the high rise terminal contour in Australian declarative sentences. Australian Journal of Linguistics 4: 19–32. doi
40. Allan, Keith 1981a. Linguistic semantics. Behaviour 2: 13–16.
41. Allan, Keith 1981b. Interpreting from context. Lingua 53: 151–174. doi
42. Allan, Keith 1980. Nouns and countability. Language 56: 541–574. jstor
43. Allan, Keith 1979a. Nation, tribalism, and national language: Nigeria's case. Cahiers d'études africaines 71, XVIII: 397–415. persee.fr
44. Allan, Keith 1979b. Number registration in English: concord and discord. Talanya 6: 1–13.
45. Allan, Keith 1977. Classifiers. Language 53: 285–311. jstor
46. Allan, Keith 1976. Collectivizing. Archivum Linguisticum 7: 99–117. PDF
47. Allan, Keith 1975. Of: a conjunct of locatives except where adjectives and verbs are involved. Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics.
48. Allan, Keith 1974. The sad case of Becker and Arms. University of Essex Occasional Papers 15: 1–4.
49. Allan, Keith 1973a. Huntin', shootin' 'n' fishin' and the overt plural morpheme. Work in Progress 2: Ahmadu Bello University Department of English. Pp. 46–74.
50. Allan, Keith 1973b. Complement noun phrases and prepositional phrases, adjectives and verbs. Foundations of Language 10: 377–397. jstor
51. Allan, Keith 1972. In reply to 'There1, there2'. Journal of Linguistics 8: 119–124. doi
52. Allan, Keith 1971. A note on the source of there in existential sentences. Foundations of Language 7: 1–18. jstor

Encyclopedia articles

1. Allan, Keith 2026. Dictionaries and Encyclopedias: Relationship. In Hilary Nesi and Petar Milin (eds), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition, Vol. 10: 610–615. doi
2. Allan, Keith 2016. Taboo. In Nancy A. Naples (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Pp. 2303–2305. PDF
3. Allan, Keith 2009. Introduction. In Keith Allan (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics. Oxford: Elsevier.
4. Allan, Keith 2006a. Categorizing percepts: Vantage Theory. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 2: 252f.
5. Allan, Keith 2006b. Connotation. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 3: 41–44.
6. Allan, Keith 2006c. Dictionaries and encyclopedias (relationship). In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 3: 573–577.
7. Allan, Keith 2006d. General semantics. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 4: 758f.
8. Allan, Keith 2006e. Inference: abduction, induction, and deduction. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 5: 651–654.
9. Allan, Keith 2006f. Informative analysis. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 5: 685f.
10. Allan, Keith 2006g. Jargon. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 6: 109–112.
11. Allan, Keith 2006h. Lexicon: structure. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 7: 148–151.
12. Allan, Keith 2006i. Meaning postulates. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 7: 561f.
13. Allan, Keith 2006j. Metalanguage vs object language. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 8: 31f.
14. Allan, Keith 2006k. Mood, clause-type and illocutionary force. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 8: 267–271.
15. Allan, Keith 2006l. Performative clauses. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 9: 283–287.
16. Allan, Keith 2006m. Phrastic, Neustic, Tropic: Hare's trichotomy. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 9: 585f.
17. Allan, Keith 2006n. Selectional restrictions. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 11: 118f.
18. Allan, Keith 2006o. Stereotype semantics. In E. Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 12: 153–155.
19. Allan, Keith 2003a. Pragmatics: Cooperative Principle. In William Frawley (ed.), Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 3: 389f.
20. Allan, Keith 2003b. Semantics: An Overview. In William Frawley (ed.), Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edn. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 4: 1–7.
21. Allan, Keith 2003c. Sense, Reference, Denotation, Extension and Intension. In William Frawley (ed.), Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 4: 7–9.
22. Allan, Keith 2003d. Stereotype semantics. In William Frawley (ed.), Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 4: 24f.
23. Allan, Keith 2001. Speech act theory — An overview. In Raj Mesthrie (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Elsevier Science. Pp. 197–208.
24. Allan, Keith 1994a. Felicity conditions on speech acts. In Ron Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 3. Pp. 1210–1213. (Revised versions in (1) Peter Lamarque (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1997. (2) Jacob L. Mey (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1998.)
25. Allan, Keith 1994b. Indirect speech acts (and off-record utterances). In Ron Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 3. Pp. 1653–1656. (Revised versions in (1) Peter Lamarque (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1997. (2) Jacob L. Mey (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1998. (3) E. Keith Brown & James Miller (eds), Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1999.)
26. Allan, Keith 1994c. The informative analysis. In Ron Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 3. Pp. 1687–1688.
27. Allan, Keith 1994d. Moods, clause types, and speech acts. In Ron Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 5. Pp. 2540–2542. (Revised version in Jacob L. Mey (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1998.)
28. Allan, Keith 1994e. Performative clauses. In Ron Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 6. Pp. 3001–3003. (Revised versions in (1) Peter Lamarque (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1997. (2) Jacob L. Mey (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1998. (3) E. Keith Brown & James Miller (eds), Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1999.)
29. Allan, Keith 1994f. Speech act classification and definition. In Ron Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 8. Pp. 4124–4127. (Revised versions in (1) Peter Lamarque (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1997. (2) Jacob L. Mey (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Oxford: Elsevier Science. 1998.)
30. Allan, Keith 1994g. Speech act hierarchy, Locutions, illocutions and perlocutions. In Ron Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 8. Pp. 4141–4142.
31. Allan, Keith 1994h. Speech act theory — An overview. In Ron Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 8. Pp. 4127–4138.
32. Allan, Keith 1994i. Speech acts and grammar. In Ron Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 8. Pp. 4140–4141.
33. Allan, Keith 1994j. Speech acts, literal and nonliteral. In Ron Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 8. Pp. 4143–4144.
34. Allan, Keith 1994k. Phrastic, neustic, tropic — Hare's trichotomy. In Ron Asher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Vol. 6. Pp. 3172–3173.
35. Allan, Keith 1991a. Cooperative Principle. In William Bright (ed.), Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Vol. 1. Pp. 310–311. New York: Oxford University Press.
36. Allan, Keith 1991b. Sense, Denotation and Reference. In William Bright (ed.), Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Vol. 2. Pp. 410–411. New York: Oxford University Press.
37. Allan, Keith 1991c. Semantics: An Overview. In William Bright (ed.), Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Vol. 3. Pp. 394–399. New York: Oxford University Press.

Published conference papers

1. Allan, Keith 2024. Tracking the weakening of a taboo. The 7th meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE7). UQ, Brisbane, Australia. doi · PDF
2. Allan, Keith 2014. A benchmark for politeness. In Lauren Gawne & Jill Vaughan (eds), Selected Papers from the 44th Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, 2013. handle
3. Allan, Keith 2007. There is no subjunctive in English. In Ilana Mushin & Mary Laughren (eds), Selected Papers of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society. Brisbane: University of Queensland. PDF
4. Allan, Keith 2006. Interpreting Apollonius Dyscolus on mood and psuchichē diathesis. In Keith Allan (ed.), Selected Papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. PDF
5. Allan, Keith 2000. The lexicon and quantity implicatures. In John Henderson (ed.), Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. Pp. 1–16.
6. Allan, Keith 1980. How to interpret from context. Proceedings and Papers of the Twentieth Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, University of Newcastle, N.S.W., 30 January – 5 February 1980, pp. 269–283.
7. Allan, Keith 1970. How complex is a two word utterance? Conference Papers of the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Nottingham University, 1970. Pp. 3–6.

Non-academic journal articles, etc.

1. Allan, Keith 2022. Australian slang: A bloody great word, whichever way you use it. lens.monash.edu
2. Allan, Keith 2012. Time for change: the harms of female genital cutting. The Conversation, August 13, 2012. theconversation.com
3. Allan, Keith & Kate Burridge 2007. The new taboos. The Walkley Magazine 45: 37f.
4. Allan, Keith 1997. Day-hiking in the Sierra Nevada. August 13–20, 1997. PDF

Reviews

1. Allan, Keith 2018. Review of Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction by Dániel Z. Kádár. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. xx+263; ISBN: 978-1107052185 (2017). International Journal of Language Studies 12(4): 107–113. PDF
2. Allan, Keith 2015. Review of A slap in the face: Why insults hurt — and why they shouldn't by William B. Irvine. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. vi+253. International Journal of Language Studies 9(2): 131–134. link
3. Allan, Keith 2014. Review of 'Nominal Classification: A history of its study from the classical period to the present' by Marcin Kilarsky. Historiographia Linguistica 41(2/3): 369–374. doi
4. Allan, Keith 2012. Review of 'Defining Pragmatics' by Mira Ariel. Language 88: 413–416. doi
5. Allan, Keith 2011. Review of 'Chomskyan (R)evolutions', ed. by Douglas A. Kibbee. Australian Journal of Linguistics 31: 377–386. doi
6. Allan, Keith 2009. Review of 'Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist', by Siobhan Chapman. Australian Journal of Linguistics 29: 157–162.
7. Allan, Keith 2008. Review of 'Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages', ed. by Bert Peeters. Studies in Language 32: 442–454.
8. Allan, Keith 2007. Review of 'Pragmatics', by Yan Huang. Australian Journal of Linguistics 28: 89–93.
9. Allan, Keith 2002. Review of 'Systems of nominal classification', ed. by Gunter Senft. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 12/1: 99–101.
10. Allan, Keith 2001a. Review of 'Toward a cognitive semantics. Volume I Concept structuring systems. Volume II Typology and process in concept structuring', by Leonard Talmy. Computational Linguistics 27: 309–315.
11. Allan, Keith 2001b. Review of 'Classifiers: a typology of noun categorization devices', by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. Linguistic Typology 5: 331–336.
12. Allan, Keith 2000. Review of 'The Whorf Theory Complex: A critical reconstruction', by Penny Lee. Multilingua 19: 430–435.
13. Allan, Keith 1999a. Review of 'History of Linguistics Vol. I: The Eastern Traditions of Linguistics' and 'Vol. II: Classical and Medieval Linguistics', ed. by Giulio Lepschy. Multilingua 18: 108–115.
14. Allan, Keith 1999b. Review of 'Color and Cognition in Mesoamerica: Constructing Categories as Vantages', by Robert E. MacLaury. Language 75: 143–147.
15. Allan, Keith 1998a. Review of 'Semantics in Generative Grammar', by Irene Heim and Angelika Kratzer. Monash University Linguistics Papers 1/2: 60–64.
16. Allan, Keith 1997. Review of 'Talk, Thought, and Thing: The Emic Road toward Conscious Knowledge', by Kenneth L. Pike. Multilingua 16: 421–423.
17. Allan, Keith 1996. Review of 'Semantics: Defining the Discipline', by Robert A. Hipkiss. Computational Linguistics 22: 227–229.
18. Allan, Keith 1995a. Review of 'Sound Symbolism', ed. by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John Ohala. Australian Journal of Linguistics 15: 258–270.
19. Allan, Keith 1995b. Review of 'The Subject of Speech Perception', by Helen Fraser. Australian Journal of Linguistics 15: 97–99.
20. Allan, Keith 1994. Review of 'Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis', by John A. Lucy. Language in Society 23: 279–283.
21. Allan, Keith 1991. Review of 'Mind, Code and Context: Essays in Pragmatics', by Talmy Givón. Journal of Linguistics 27: 254–259.
22. Allan, Keith 1987a. Review of 'Noun Classes and Categorization', ed. by Colette Craig. Language 63: 887–892.
23. Allan, Keith 1987b. Review of 'An Introduction to Discourse Analysis', by Malcolm Coulthard. RELC Journal 18: 115–118.
24. Allan, Keith 1987c. Review of 'The Interpretation of English Noun Sequences on the Computer', by Rosemary Leonard. Language 63: 429.
25. Allan, Keith 1987d. Review of 'Structured Meanings: the semantics of propositional attitudes', by Max J. Cresswell. Language 63: 195–196.
26. Allan, Keith 1987e. Review of 'Topic Continuity in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross-Language Study', ed. by Talmy Givón. Language 63: 160–164.
27. Allan, Keith 1986a. Review of 'Coherence and Composition: a Symposium', ed. by Nils E. Enkvist. Language 62: 734.
28. Allan, Keith 1986b. Review of 'Prolegomena to Inferential Discourse Processing', by Roger G. van de Velde. Language 62: 733–734.
29. Allan, Keith 1986c. Review of 'Beyond the Sentence: Discourse and Sentential Form', ed. by Jessica R. Wirth. Language 62: 732–733.
30. Allan, Keith 1986d. Review of 'Adjectives and comparison in English: a Semantic Study', by Jan Rusiecki. Language 62: 716.
31. Allan, Keith 1986e. Review of 'Parsing Natural Language', ed. by Margaret King. Australian Journal of Linguistics 6: 107–114.
32. Allan, Keith 1985a. Review of 'Pragmatics', by Stephen Levinson. Australian Journal of Linguistics 5: 297–304.
33. Allan, Keith 1985b. Review of 'Semantics: A Coursebook', by James R. Hurford and Brendan Heasley. Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association 63: 74–75.
34. Allan, Keith 1985c. Review of 'Discourse Analysis', by Gillian Brown and George Yule; and 'Discourse Analysis: The Sociolinguistic Analysis of Natural Language', by Michael Stubbs. Australian Journal of Linguistics 5: 123–131.
35. Allan, Keith 1985d. Review of 'Where Have All the Adjectives Gone? And Other Essays in Semantics and Syntax', by Robert W.M. Dixon. Language 61: 461f.
36. Allan, Keith 1983a. Review of 'Language and Other Abstract Objects', by Jerrold J. Katz. Language 59: 678–683.
37. Allan, Keith 1983b. Review of 'Everything that Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know About Logic (but were ashamed to ask)', by James D. McCawley. Australian Journal of Linguistics 3: 124–127.
38. Allan, Keith 1982. Review of 'Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts', by Kent Bach and Robert M. Harnish. Australian Journal of Linguistics 2: 231–240.
39. Allan, Keith 1981a. Review of 'Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication', by Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demers and Robert M. Harnish; 'Introduction to Linguistics: An Australian Perspective', by John Bernard and Arthur Delbridge; and 'A First Course in Linguistics', by J.M.Y. Simpson. Australian Journal of Linguistics 1: 257–271.
40. Allan, Keith 1981b. Review of 'Syntax: A Linguistic Introduction to Sentence Structure', by E. Keith Brown and James E. Miller. Australian Journal of Linguistics 1: 140–142.
41. Allan, Keith 1981c. Review of 'Uriel Weinreich on Semantics', ed. by William Labov and Beatrice S. Weinreich. Language 57: 941–948.
42. Allan, Keith 1981d. Review of 'The semantics of English Aspectual Complementation', by Alice F. Freed. Language 57: 497–498.
43. Allan, Keith 1981e. Review of 'Semantics: A Bibliography, 1965–1978', by Terence Gordon. Language 57: 254–255.
44. Allan, Keith 1981f. Review of 'Semantics from Different Points of View', ed. by Rainer Bäuerle, Urs Egli and Arnim von Stechow. Language 57: 253–254.
45. Allan, Keith 1980a. Review of 'Ways of Meaning: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Language', by Mark de B. Platts. Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association 53: 112–113.
46. Allan, Keith 1980b. Review of 'Principles of Diachronic Syntax', by David W. Lightfoot. Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association 53: 108–110.
47. Allan, Keith 1980c. Review of 'Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems', ed. by Francis J. Pelletier. Language 56: 476.
48. Allan, Keith 1974. Review of 'Chomsky: Selected Readings', ed. by Patrick Allen and Paul van Buren. Journal of Linguistics 10: 217–220.

Audio-visual works

1. Allan, Keith: Forbidden Words. Lingua Franca, 29 April 2006.
2. Allan, Keith & Kate Burridge: TV interview on Forbidden Words: Taboo & the Censoring of Language. Ten Network Interview on 9 a.m. with David and Kim (David Reyne and Kim Watkins), 27 April 2007. youtu.be
3. Allan, Keith & Kate Burridge: Frequent Coarse Language. The Age Melbourne Writers Festival. Merlyn Theatre, 31 August 2007. Excerpted on Radio National's Lingua Franca program broadcast September 8, 2007.