Research interests
- (Im)politeness theory
- Speech act theory
- History of English
- Historical pragmatics
Short Bio
Andreas H. Jucker is Professor emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich, where he taught from 2002 until 2022 and served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 2013 until 2017. His current research interests include historical pragmatics, politeness theory, speech act theory, and the history of English. His most recent book publication is Speech Acts: Discursive, Multimodal, Diachronic (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Other recent book publications include Politeness in the History of English. From the Middle Ages to the Present-day (Cambridge University Press, 2020). The Pragmatics of Fiction. Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse (co-authored with Miriam Locher; Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Pragmatics of Space (co-edited with Heiko Hausendorf; De Gruyter, 2022) and Multimodal Im/politeness. Signed, Spoken, Written (co-edited with Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown; Benjamins, 2023). From 2019 to 2024, he was President of the European Society for the Study of English. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pragmatics.
Publications
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Publications
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2025
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Historical Pragmatics: The Evolution of Language Use In P. M. Hilary Nesi (Ed.), Reference Module in Social Sciences (p. Epub ahead of print). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-95504-1.00772-9
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Historical Pragmatics In L. Wright & R. Hickey (Eds.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume 1. Context, Contact and Development (Vol. 1, pp. 666–719). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009205702
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Communities of Practice in the History of English In J. Beal (Ed.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume III. Transmission, Change and Ideology (Vol. 3, pp. 751–773). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009205870
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2024
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Speech Acts: Discursive, Multimodal, Diachronic Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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“I rede þou lerne wel þis of me”: Advice giving in Middle English medical discourse In: Räikkönen, Jenni; Suhr, Carla; Palander-Collin, Minna; Nurmi, Arja; Nevala, Minna; Hiltunen, Turo . Multilingualism and Language Variation in English across Genres and Registers : A Festschrift in Honour of Päivi Pahta. Helsinki: Modern Language Society of Helsinki, 97-122.
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“Is that a request or a command?”: Speech act meta discourse and illocutionary indeterminacy SPELL: Swiss papers in English language and literature, 2024(44):103-119.
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An extended lunch break: a response to Wolfgang Klein [Journal of Pragmatics] International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2024(289-290):75-78.
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2023
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Pragmatics: Research Methods In: Chapelle, Carol A . The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. London: Wiley Blackwell, online.
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Conduct politeness versus etiquette politeness: a terminological distinction Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 20(1):87-109.
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The diachrony of im/politeness in American and British movies (1930–2019) Journal of Pragmatics, 209:123-141.
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Fiction and Pragmatics Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Historical pragmatics www.oxfordbibliographies.com: Oxford University Press.
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Chapter 12: “He offered an apologetic smile”: The politeness of apologetic gestures In: Jucker, Andreas H; Hübscher, Iris; Brown, Lucien . Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 327-351.
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Translating Middle English (Im)politeness: The Case of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale The Chaucer Review, 58(1):35-59.
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Politeness In: Newhauser, Richard . The Chaucer Encyclopedia. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 1492.
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Chapter 1: Multimodal im/politeness: Introduction. In: Jucker, Andreas H; Hübscher, Iris; Brown, Lucien . Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 1-23.
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2022
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Co-presence and beyond: Spatial configurations of communication in virtual environments In: Jucker, Andreas H; Hausendorf, Heiko . Pragmatics of Space. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 579-608.
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Mapping perceptions and knowledge of language: Societal multilingualism and its sociopragmatic grounding In: Jucker, Andreas H; Hausendorf, Heiko . Pramgatics of Space. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 679-714.
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Architecture-for-interaction: Built, designed and furnished space for communicative purposes In: Jucker, Andreas H; Hausendorf, Heiko . Pragmatics of space. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 431-472.
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