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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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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2014
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Pragmatics and language change: Historical pragmatics. In: Huang, Yan. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-15.
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Pragmatics and language change: Historical pragmatics. In: Huang, Yan. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 550-566.
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Courtesy and politeness in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 49(3):5-28.
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"Maybe, but probably not": Negotiating likelihood and perspective. Language and Dialogue, 4(2):284-298.
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Complimenting in the history of American English: A metacommunicative expression analysis. In: Taavitsainen, Irma; Jucker, Andreas H; Tuominen, Jukka. Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 257-276.
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Diachronic corpus pragmatics: Intersections and interactions. In: Taavitsainen, Irma; Jucker, Andreas H; Tuominen, Jukka. Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 3-26.
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The development of discourse presentation in The Times, 1833–1988. Media History, 20(1):67-87.
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2013
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Uncovering layers of meaning in the history of the English language. In: Jucker, Andreas H; Landert, Daniela; Seiler, Annina; Studer-Joho, Nicole. Meaning in the History of English. Words and texts in context. Amsredam: John Benjamins, 1-15.
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Corpus pragmatics. In: Östman, Jan-Ola; Verschueren, Jef. Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-17.
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Communities of practice as a locus of language change. In: Kopaczyk, Joanna; Jucker, Andreas H. Communities of practice in the history of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-16.
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Of ledenum bocum to engliscum gereorde: Bilingual communities of practice in anglo-saxon England. In: Kopaczyk, Joanna; Jucker, Andreas H. Communities of Practice in the History of English. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 201-224.
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English Historical Pragmatics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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2012
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“These imputations are too common, sir”: Politeness in Early Modern English dialogues: The case of Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or The Fox. In: Mazzon, Gabriella; Fodda, Luisianna. Historical Perspective on Forms of English Dialogue. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 40-58.
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Changes in politeness cultures. In: Nevalainen, Terttu; Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. The Oxford handbook of the history of international law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 422-433.
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The linguistics of keyboard-to-screen communication. A new terminological framework. Linguistik Online, 56(6/12):1-26.
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Review of Culpeper and Kytö, Early Modern English dialogues: Spoken interaction as writing. Studies in English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. English Language and Linguistics, 16:519-523.
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Semantic corpus trawling: Expressions of “courtesy” and “politeness” in the Helsinki Corpus. In: Suhr, Carla; Taavitsainen, Irma. Developing Corpus Methodology for Historical Pragmatics. Helsinki: Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, 1.
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Pragmatic variables. In: Hernández-Campoy, Juan M; Conde-Silvestre, Juan C. The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 293-306.
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“What’s in a name?”: Names and terms of address in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In: Chevalier, Sarah; Honegger, Thomas. Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond. Festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Tübingen: Narr, 77-97.
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Pragmatics in the history of linguistic thought. In: Allan, Keith; Jaszczolt, Kasia M. The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 495-512.
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