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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2019
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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. https://doi.org/10.1285/i22390359v31p15
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Late Egyptian, Old English and the re-evaluation of Discernment politeness in remote cultures Journal of Pragmatics, 144, 56–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.02.012
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Internet pragmatics and the fuzziness of analytical categories: a response to Francisco Yus Internet Pragmatics, 2, 41–46. https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00020.juc
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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, 375–398. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-018-0038-y
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Doing space in face-to-face interaction and on interactive multimodal platforms Journal of Pragmatics, 134, 85–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.07.001
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Introduction to part 5: Corpus pragmatics In A. H. Jucker, K. P. Schneider, & W. Bublitz (Eds.), Methods in Pragmatics (No. 10; pp. 455–466). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424928-018
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Introduction to part 4: Observational pragmatics In A. H. Jucker, K. P. Schneider, & W. Bublitz (Eds.), Methods in Pragmatics (No. 10; pp. 335–342). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424928-013
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Historische Pragmatik In F. Liedtke & A. Tuchen (Eds.), Handbuch Pragmatik (pp. 132–139). J. B. Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04624-6_13
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Data in pragmatic research In A. H. Jucker, K. P. Schneider, & W. Bublitz (Eds.), Methods in Pragmatics (No. 10; pp. 3–36). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424928-001
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Methods in pragmatics (Vol. 10). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424928
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2017
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Perks and Problems of Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-279281
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Speech acts and speech act sequences: greetings and farewells in the history of American English Studia Neophilologica, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2017.1358662
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Historical (im)politeness In J. Culpeper, M. Haugh, & D. Z. Kádár (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness (pp. 433–459). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7
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Stance in Fiction In M. A. Locher & A. H. Jucker (Eds.), Pragmatics of Fiction (No. 12; pp. 489–514). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110431094-016
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(Im)politeness and developments in methodology In J. Culpeper, M. Haugh, & D. Z. Kádár (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness (pp. 403–429). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7
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Pragmatics of Fiction (Vol. 12). De Gruyter Mouton.
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Variation and change: Historical pragmatics In A. Barron, Y. Gu, & G. Steen (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 79–90). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315668925
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Chapter 9: Pragmatics and Discourse In L. J. Brinton & A. Bergs (Eds.), The History of English/Historical Outlines from Sound to Text (No. 1; pp. 165–184). De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/481140?rskey=lUOvcQ&onlyResultQuery=9783110522389
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Introducing Pragmatics of Fiction: Approaches, trends and developments In M. A. Locher & A. H. Jucker (Eds.), Pragmatics of Fiction (No. 12; pp. 1–22). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110431094-001
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2016
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Interaction and space in the virtual world of Second Life Journal of Pragmatics, 101, 83–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.05.009
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