Prof. Dr. Andreas H. Jucker
Professor of English Linguistics
My current research interests
include historical pragmatics, speech act theory, politeness theory and the
grammar and history of English. Recent publications include Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems (Benjamins, 2003), Speech Acts in the History of English
(Benjamins, 2008), both co-edited with Irma Taavitsainen, Early Modern English News Discourse (Benjamins, 2009) and Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse
(Rodopi, 2009) co-edited with Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt, and most
recently the Handbook of Historical
Pragmatics (Mouton, 2010) co-edited with Irma Taavitsainen and Communicating Early English Manuscript (Cambridge University Press, 2011) co-edited with Päivi Pahta. I am Co-Editor of the Journal of Historical
Pragmatics (with Irma Taavitsainen), Associate Editor of the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins) and a member of the advisory boards of the Journal of Pragmatics, Lodz Papers in Pragmatics and Language@Internet.
