Keith Allan

Professor, Author

1943 –

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Who is Keith Allan?

Keith Allan, FAHA is an Australian linguist and Emeritus Professor at Monash University.

Allan sees language as a form of social interactive behavior and believes this to be an important consideration in any thorough account of meaning in natural language. While he is interested in all aspects of meaning in language, his main interests are Semantics, Pragmatics, Linguistic Meta-theory and the History and Philosophy of Linguistics.

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Born
Mar 27, 1943
Nationality
  • Australia
Profession
Employment
  • Monash University
Lived in
  • Melbourne
  • Sunshine Coast, Queensland

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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