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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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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Historische Pragmatik. In: Liedtke, Frank; Tuchen, Astrid. Handbuch Pragmatik. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 132-139.
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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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2016
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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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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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2015
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Negotiation of space in Second Life newbie interaction. Discourse, Context & Media, 9:34-45.
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Pragmatics of fiction: Literary uses of "uh" and "um". Journal of Pragmatics, 86:63-67.
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Uh and um as planners in the Corpus of Historical American English. In: Taavitsainen, Irma; Kytö, Merja; Claridge, Claudia; Smith, Jeremy. Developments in English: Expanding Electronic Evidence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 162-177.
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Twenty years of historical pragmatics: Origins, developments and changing thought styles. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 16(1):1-24.
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