Euphemism & Dysphemism. Language Used as Shield and Weapon. Keith Allan and Kate Burridge, 1991, Oxford University Press.

A Benchmark for Politeness

K. Allan () Monash University, Melbourne, Australia e-mail: [email protected] Abstract (Im)politeness is never a depersonalized, decontextualized absolute but always a perception or judgement of appropriate behaviour on a given occasion—what one expects oneself and others to do in a particular social interaction. Nevertheless, it is normal for most tabooed words and phrases to be castigat...

Keith Burridge: Cultivating knowledge on Rho

T hroughout his career, Keith Bur-ridge has helped propel the burgeoning fi eld of cytoskeletal research. Among other things, he's credited with discovering two major components of focal adhesions, talin (1) and paxillin (2). Despite these achievements, he wryly laments a few missed opportunities: for instance, as a postdoc in Jim Watson's lab, Burridge developed a method to use anti-bodies to ...

Book Review: Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka (eds) Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies Oxford: Oxford University Press

Allan Charles Wilson (1934-1991)

Allan C. Wilson studied genes [5], proteins, and body structures of animals and humans [6] in the US during the second half of the twentieth century. Wilson also studied human evolution [7] . Although morphology [8] and behaviors of humans [6] (Homo sapiens [9]) and great apes differ, Wilson found that they have biochemical and genetic similarities. Wilson and his colleagues calculated the time...

Neuroimaging Genetics Edited by Bigos et al. Oxford University Press

Over the last two decades, the association of genetic variation and brain function has received considerable attention. It is well established that most psychiatric and neurological diseases have a substantial genetic contribution. Therefore, investigating the influences of genotypes on brain structure and function should lead to a better understanding of the neurobiology of physiological brain...