Linguistics Program
La Trobe University
Victoria 3086
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 3 9479 2616
Fax: +61 3 9479 1520
Email: linguistics
@latrobe.edu.au
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Linguistics Program
Staff Directory
| Professor Barry Blake |
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Position: Emeritus Professor
Room: DMB E314
Tel: +61 3 9479 1214
Fax: +61 3 9479 1520
Email: b.blake@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA (Hons) (Melb), MA, PhD (Monash), FAHA |
Major Research Areas:
- language description
- historical linguistics
- Australian languages
- humour in language
- secret language
Current Projects:
- secret language (ciphers, riddles, magic words, taboo, slang, argot, euphemism, irony, allusion)
- Victorian Aboriginal languages
Recent Publications:
- Blake, B.J. (in press). Secret Language. Oxford: OUP
- Blake, B.J. 2007. All about Language. Oxford: OUP.
- Blake, B.J. 2007. Playing with Words: Humour in the English Language. London: Equinox.
- Breen, J. G. & Blake, B. J. 2006. A Grammar of Yalarnnga. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Blake, B.J. 2003. The Bunganditj (Buwandik) language of the Mount Gambier region. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Blake, B.J. 2003. The Warrnambool language: a consolidated account of the Aboriginal language of the Warrnambool area of the Western District of Victoria based on nineteenth century sources. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
- Blake, B.J. 2001. Case (2nd ed.). Cambridge: CUP.
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