Core expertise
Linguistics
Biography
Keith is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Monash, Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. He was a recipient of the Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society and the Humanities in Linguistics and Philology in 2003. Keith’s research interests focus mainly on aspects of meaning in language, with a secondary interest in the history and philosophy of linguistics.
He’s published on the topics of censorship, discourse analysis, dysphemism, euphemism, grammaticalisation, jargon, language policy, linguistic metatheory, morphology, politeness, pragmatics, prosody, psycho-linguistics, semantics, sociolinguistics, speech act theory, syntax, and taboo. Keith is editor of The Australian Journal of Linguistics, and a widely-published author.
