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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2018
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Historische Pragmatik In: Liedtke, Frank; Tuchen, Astrid . Handbuch Pragmatik. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 132-139.
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Introduction to part 4: Observational pragmatics In: Jucker, Andreas H; Schneider, Klaus P.; Bublitz, Wolfram . Methods in Pragmatics. Berlin: De Gruyter, 335-342.
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Data in pragmatic research In: Jucker, Andreas H; Schneider, Klaus P; Bublitz, Wolfram . Methods in Pragmatics. Berlin: De Gruyter, 3-36.
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Methods in pragmatics Edited by: Jucker, Andreas H; Schneider, Klaus P.; Bublitz, Wolfram (2018). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
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2017
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Perks and Problems of Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis 2017, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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Speech acts and speech act sequences: greetings and farewells in the history of American English Studia Neophilologica:1-20.
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Variation and change: Historical pragmatics In: Barron, Anne; Gu, Yuego; Steen, Gerard . The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics. London: Routledge, 79-90.
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Pragmatics of Fiction Edited by: Locher, Miriam A; Jucker, Andreas H (2017). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
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Historical (im)politeness In: Culpeper, Jonathan; Haugh, Michael; Kádár, Dániel Z . The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness. London: Springer, 433-459.
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Introducing Pragmatics of Fiction: Approaches, trends and developments In: Locher, Miriam A; Jucker, Andreas H . Pragmatics of Fiction. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1-22.
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Chapter 9: Pragmatics and Discourse In: Brinton, Laurel J; Bergs, Alexaner . The History of English/Historical Outlines from Sound to Text. Berlin: De Gruyter, 165-184.
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(Im)politeness and developments in methodology In: Culpeper, Jonathan; Haugh, Michael; Kádár, Dániel Z . The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 403-429.
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Stance in Fiction In: Locher, Miriam A; Jucker, Andreas H . Pragmatics of Fiction. Berlin: De Gruyter, 489-514.
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2016
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Forms of address In: Hough, Carole . The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 427-437.
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Politeness in eighteenth-century drama: A discursive approach Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 12(1):95-115.
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Native and non-native teachers' discourse in EFL classrooms: English, Mandarin, code-switching and the use of OK 2016, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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Höflichkeit im Theater der englischen Renaissance : Ben Jonsons Bartholomew Fair Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen, 36(2):77-88.
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Interaction and space in the virtual world of Second Life Journal of Pragmatics, 101:83-100.
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2015
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Negotiation of space in Second Life newbie interaction Discourse, Context & Media, 9:34-45.
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