5 January 2008
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Keith Allan and Kate Burridge describe how we censor our own language in order to negotiate taboo topics.
First broadcast on 8/9/2007.
Guests
Keith Allan,
Professor of Linguistics at Monash University.
Kate Burridge,
Professor of Linguistics at Monash University.
Further Information
This program is an edited version of a Melbourne Writers Festival session, recorded on 31/8/2007.
Publications
Title: Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
URL: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521819602&ss=fro
Presenter
Maria Zijlstra
Producer
Martin Lawrence
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