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Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Linguistics
Presentations
- Toward a Lexically Realistic Semantics of Taboo (and Other) Words. Linguistics Colloquium, University of Utah, November 9, 2023.
Presentation,
Presented, 11/09/2023.
- Words You Just Don’t Say. Community Conversations, University of Utah, May 5, 2021.
Other,
Presented, 05/05/2021.
- The Color of Words, Our Story Conference, Gustavus Adolphus College.
Invited Talk/Keynote,
Presented, 10/16/2010.
- Participated in Contemporary Languages of Racism panel, Student conference on Writing and Social Justice, Salt Lake Community College.
Other,
Presented, 04/19/2008.
Languages
French, fluent.
German, functional.
Hungarian, functional.
Wolof, basic.
Geographical Regions of Interest
Publications
- Randall Eggert (2023). Review of Utah English by David Eddington. Utah Historical Quarterly.
Accepted, 12/19/2023.
- Randall Eggert (2020). This Book is Taboo: An Introduction to Linguistics through Swearing, Second Edition. (pp. 267). Kendall Hunt.
Published, 09/2020.
https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/book-taboo-intr...
- R. Eggert. 2015. How the N-Word Became the new F-Word. Washington Post. June 26, 2015.
Published, 06/26/2015.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2015/06/26...
- Eggert, R. 2011. This Book is Taboo: An Introduction to Linguistics through Swearing. Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Published, 05/2011.
- Kleinedler, S. and R. Eggert. 2006. Indexi-lexicography. In G. Ward and B. Birner (eds.), Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Published, 10/2006.
- Eggert, R. 2003. I bet you think this paper is about ‘you’: Participant roles and ‘you’. BLS 29. 115-125.
Published, 10/2003.
- Anderson, G.D. and R. Eggert. 2001. A typology of verb agreement in Burushaski. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 24.2.
Published, 09/2001.
- Eggert, R. 2000. Grammaticality and context with respect to and… and or… respectively. CLS 36. 93-107.
Published, 08/2000.
- Eggert, R. 1998. I’m not here right now: Salience in pure indexical reference. CLS 34. 111-126.
Published, 08/1998.