Kathryn "Kate" Burridge FASSA FAHA is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.[1]
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Career
Burridge's work has mainly focused on Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking communities in Canada, grammatical change in Germanic languages, the nature of euphemism and dysphemism, linguistic taboo, and on English grammatical structure in general. She is currently co-editor of the Australian Journal of Linguistics.[2]
Burridge is a regular presenter of language segments on ABC Radio. She appeared weekly as a panellist on ABC TV's Can We Help?,[3][4] and has also appeared on The Einstein Factor.
She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998[5] and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2020.[6]
Bibliography
Monographs
- Burridge, Kathryn & Eldon D. Weber (1989). Pennsylvania-German dialect : a localized study within a part of former Waterloo County, Ontario. Waterloo, Ontario: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario.
- "Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon" (1991, Oxford University Press) - co-authored with Keith Allan.
- "Diachronic Studies on the Languages of the Anabaptists" (1992, Universittsverlag Brockmeyer) - co-edited with Werner Enninger.
- "Syntactic Change in Germanic" (1993, John Benjamins).
- "Canada – Australia: Towards a Centenary of Partnership" (1997, Carlton Uni Press) - co-edited with Lois Foster and Gerry Turcotte.
- "English in Australia and New Zealand - An Introduction to its Structure, History and Use" (1998, Oxford University Press) - co-authored with Jean Mulder.
- "Introducing English Grammar" (2000, Edward Arnold) - co-authored with Kersti Börjars.
- "Blooming English: Observations on the roots, cultivation and hybrids of the English Language" (2004, Cambridge University Press; published 2002 by ABC Books).
- "Weeds in the Garden of Words: further observations on the tangled history of the English language" (2005, Cambridge University Press; published 2004 by ABC Books).
- "Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language" (2006, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) - co-authored with Keith Allan.
Book reviews
| Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Burridge, Kate (January–February 2021). "Camouflaging the cussword : exploring Australian slang". Australian Book Review. 428: 56–57. | Laugesen, Amanda. Rooted : an Australian history of bad language. NewSouth. |
References
- ^ "Kate Burridge – Monash University". Monash Lens. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome
- ^ Kate Burridge:
- ^ ABCTV – Can We Help? – Meet the Team
- ^ "Fellow Profile: Kate Burridge". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ "38 Leading Social Scientists elected as Academy Fellows". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 10 November 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
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