Kate Burridge

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]

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]

Selected works

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. ISBN 978-0-920038-09-3
  • "Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon" (1991, Oxford University Press) - co-authored with Keith Allan. ISBN 978-0-19-506622-7
  • "Diachronic Studies on the Languages of the Anabaptists" (1992, Universittsverlag Brockmeyer) - co-edited with Werner Enninger. ISBN 978-3-8196-0054-8
  • "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

  1. ^ "Kate Burridge – Monash University". Monash Lens. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  2. ^ Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome
  3. ^ Kate Burridge:
  4. ^ ABCTV – Can We Help? – Meet the Team
  5. ^ "Fellow Profile: Kate Burridge". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
  6. ^ "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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