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Education and Experience
Kathryn Allan joined UCL in 2008 and is an Associate Professor in the History of English. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the English Language department at the University of Glasgow, where she also worked for several years as a part-time research assistant on the听, published on paper as the听; she is now a member of the Advisory Board to the project. From 2004鈥�2008 she was a lecturer at the University of Salford, where she was Programme Leader for the BA in English Language and Linguistics, and she has also taught at universities including Oxford and (through Erasmus) Zurich. Kathryn is currently a member of Council of the , and an Affiliate of the
Research
Kathryn鈥檚 main research interests are in historical and cognitive semantics and lexicology. She is particularly interested in the intra- and extra-linguistic factors in semantic change, and in tracing polysemy in relation to social-cultural change; her monograph听, which uses data from the听Historical Thesaurus of English, explores the motivation for metaphor and metonymy in the semantic field intelligence. She focuses on more recent shifts in lexical meaning in her work with the听, a collaborative research project which builds on Raymond Williams' work in exploring social/cultural 'keywords鈥�, and she was a contributor to the volume and the editor of a Critical Quarterly Special Issue, .
Much of Kathryn鈥檚 research uses the听as a starting point. Her interest in methodological issues led to the volume听, co-edited with听听and published with Mouton de Gruyter in the series, and to , published in Mouton鈥檚 series and co-edited with听听and听Heli Tissari.听 She collaborated with the late听Christian Kay听on the textbook听, published in 2015 by Edinburgh University Press, and is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Historical Semantics for Oxford University Press with .听
Kathryn is particularly interested in supervising PhDs in the area of historical lexicology, lexical semantics and cognitive semantics.
Selected Publications
Forthcoming 2021. 鈥楳etaphor, metonymy and polysemy: A historical perspective鈥�. In A. Soares da Silva (ed.) Figures: Intersubjectivity and Usage. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
鈥� 2019. Introduction. Critical Quarterly 61:3. Keywords for Today: Reflections, Reactions, Futures, 4-9.
鈥� 2019. With Alan Durant. 鈥�Environment鈥�. In Critical Quarterly 61:3. Keywords for Today: Reflections, Reactions, Futures, 67-84.
鈥� 2018. Keywords Project. Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary. Eds. C. MacCabe & H. Yanacek. Oxford: OUP.
鈥� 2018. 鈥楨苍辞耻驳丑: A Lexical-Semantic Approach鈥�. In Matthew Ingleby and Samuel Randalls (eds.), Just Enough: The History, Culture and Politics of Sufficiency, 13-25. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
鈥� 2016. With Philip Durkin. 鈥楤orrowing and copy.鈥� In A. Auer, V. Gonz谩lez-Di谩z, J. Hodson & V. Sotirova (eds.)听Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson, 71-86. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
鈥� 2016.听With Christian Kay. 鈥楥hange in the English Lexicon.鈥� In Merja Kyt艒 and Paivi Pahta (eds.)听The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics, 220-236. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
鈥� 2015.听 With Christian Kay.听English Historical Semantics.听Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced.听 Edinburgh:听 Edinburgh University Press.
鈥� 2015. 鈥楨ducation in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary: exploring diachronic change in a semantic field.鈥� In J. Daems, E. Zenner, K. Heylen, D. Speelman & H. Cuyckens (eds.)听Change of Paradigms 鈥� New Paradoxes, 81-96. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
鈥� 2015. 鈥楲ost in Transmission?听 The sense development of borrowed metaphor.鈥櫶� In J. Diaz Vera (ed.)听Metaphor and Metonymy Through Time and Cultures, 31-50. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
鈥� 2014. 鈥楢n inquest into metaphor death:听 exploring the loss of literal senses of conceptual metaphors.鈥櫶�Cognitive Semiotics听5(1-2), 291-311.
鈥� 2012. 鈥楿sing听OED听data as evidence鈥�. In Allan, K. & J. Robinson (eds.)听Current Methods in Historical Semantics,听17-39.听Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
鈥� 2010. 鈥楾racing metonymic polysemy through time: MATERIAL FOR OBJECT mappings in the OED鈥�. In Winters. M., H. Tissari & K. Allan (eds.)听Historical Cognitive Linguistics: Syntax and Semantics, 163-196. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
鈥� 2009.听Metaphor and Metonymy: A Diachronic Approach. (Publications of the Philological Society 42). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
鈥� 2007. 鈥楨xcellence: a new keyword for education?鈥�,听Critical Quarterly听49.1: 54-78.
鈥� 2006. 鈥楪lossary鈥�. (141 pp.) Co-author Dr Philip Durkin,听Oxford English Dictionary. In Brown, E.K. (ed.)听Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, vol. 14. Oxford: Elsevier.
鈥� 2006. 鈥極n groutnolls and nog-heads: a case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors鈥�. In Stefanowitsch, A. & S. Grondelaers (eds.)听Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics. Vol. 1:听Metaphor and Metonymy, 175-190. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.