Keith Allan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Keith Allan is involved.
2023 Chapter 10. Establishing common ground to achieve therapeutic goals A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding, Bigi, Sarah and Maria Grazia Rossi (eds.), pp. 252–262 | Chapter
Healthcare professionals can normally assume that their patients are rational people and approach verbal interaction with the patient as they would with any fellow human being. Common ground is context shared between S (speaker, writer, signer) and H (audience) where S utters U (utterance),… read more
2022 General semantics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 652–656 | Chapter
2022 Obscenity, slurs, and taboo Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 220–233 | Chapter
2019 Pragmemes Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 199–202 | Chapter
2013 Common ground Handbook of Pragmatics: 2013 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
2012 3. The semantics of the perfect progressive in English Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 53–72 | Article
As chapters in these volumes clearly demonstrate, the grammaticalization of temporality varies enormously across languages. No other language has a construction exactly like the English perfect progressive – which, were it a combination of aspects as some claim, would be self-contradictory. The… read more
2011 General semantics Pragmatics in Practice, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 153–158 | Article
2009 Swearing Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 361–386 | Article
In this chapter, we provide an account of antipodean swearing patterns, drawing on examples from existing written and spoken data banks. As part of this investigation, we consider general questions to do with swearing: what it is, why speakers do it and how swearing patterns have changed over the… read more
1999 The semantics of English quantifiers The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston, Collins, Peter and David Lee (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Article
1998 On the semantic frames of be and possessive have Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake, Siewierska, Anna and Jae Jung Song (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
1995 General semantics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 307–311 | Article