My current research interests include historical pragmatics, politeness theory, speech act theory and the language of the new media. Recent publications include the handbooks Pragmatics of Fiction, co-edited with Miriam Locher (De Gruyter, 2017) and Methods in Pragmatics, co-edited with Wolfram Bublitz and Klaus P. Schneider (De Gruyter, 2018); Communities of Practice in the History of English (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 235, John Benjamins, 2013) co-edited with Joanna Kopaczyk; Meaning in the History of English: Words and Texts in Context (Studies in Language Companion Series, John Benjamins, 2013), co-edited with Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho; English Historical Pragmatics (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language, Edinburgh University Press, 2013), co-authored with Irma Taavitsainen; and Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 243, John Benjamins, 2014) co-edited with Irma Taavitsainen. I am Founding 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.