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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2022
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Doing space: The pragmatics of language and space In: Jucker, Andreas H; Hausendorf, Heiko . Pragmatics of space. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1-20.
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The pragmatics of written texts in space In: Jucker, Andreas H; Hausendorf, Heiko . Pragmatics of Space. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 549-577.
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2021
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Features of orality in the language of fiction: A corpus-based investigation Language and Literature, 30(4):341-360.
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Methodological issues in digital conversation analysis Discourse, Context & Media, 42(100520):100520.
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Historical Sociopragmatics In: Haugh, Michael; Kádár, Dániel Z; Terkourafi, Marina . The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 687-709.
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The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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“The uh deconstructed pumpkin pie”: the use of 'uh' and 'um' in Los Angeles restaurant server talk Journal of Pragmatics, 172:21-34.
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2020
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Digital pragmatics of English In: Adolphs, Svenja; Knight, Dawn . The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities. London: Routledge, 107-124.
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The discourse of manners and politeness in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama In: Jucker, Andreas H; Taavitsainen, Irma . Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English : Literary and linguistic approaches. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 102-120.
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Manners, norms and transgressions in the history of English : literary and linguistic approaches Edited by: Jucker, Andreas H; Taavitsainen, Irma (2020). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
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Politeness in the history of English: from the Middle Ages to the present day Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Introduction - Manners, norms and transgressions in the history of English : literary and linguistic approaches In: Jucker, Andreas H; Taavitsainen, Irma . Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English : Literary and linguistic approaches. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 1-23.
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2019
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Review of: Ehrhardt, Claus, und Eva Neuland (Hrsg.). Sprachliche Höflichkeit. Historische, aktuelle und künftige Perspektiven. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto (2017) Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, 11(1-2):8-11.
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“Oops, I forgot, sorry”: the spill cries oops and whoops in the history of American English Lingue e Linguaggi, 31:15-33.
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Late Egyptian, Old English and the re-evaluation of Discernment politeness in remote cultures Journal of Pragmatics, 144:56-66.
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Internet pragmatics and the fuzziness of analytical categories: a response to Francisco Yus Internet Pragmatics, 2(1):41-46.
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2018
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Apologies in the History of English: Evidence from the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) Corpus Pragmatics, 2(4):375-398.
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Doing space in face-to-face interaction and on interactive multimodal platforms Journal of Pragmatics, 134:85-101.
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Introduction to part 5: Corpus pragmatics In: Jucker, Andreas H; Schneider, Klaus P; Bublitz, Wolfram . Methods in Pragmatics. Berlin: De Gruyter, 455-466.
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