The Science of Slang and Swearing - Prof. Kate Burridge - #29
Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. She earned her PhD from the University of London in 1983 with a dissertation on syntactic change in medieval Dutch. Burridge has authored or co-authored more than 25 books on language, including Blooming English, Weeds in the Garden of Words, and Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language. She is a regular presenter of language segments on ABC Radio and co-hosts the Breaking Taboos…
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