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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2016
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Native and non-native teachers’ discourse in EFL classrooms: English, Mandarin, code-switching and the use of OK. (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-204543
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Politeness in eighteenth-century drama: A discursive approach Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 12, 95–115. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2015-0027
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Forms of address In C. Hough (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming (pp. 427–437). Oxford University Press.
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Höflichkeit im Theater der englischen Renaissance : Ben Jonsons Bartholomew Fair. Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen, 36, 77–88. http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_953.ahtml
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2015
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Historical pragmatics and early speech recordings: Diachronic developments in turn-taking and narrative structure in radio talk shows Journal of Pragmatics, 79, 22–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2015.01.010
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Twenty years of historical pragmatics: Origins, developments and changing thought styles Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 16, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.16.1.01taa
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Pragmatics of fiction: Literary uses of “uh” and “um.” Journal of Pragmatics, 86, 63–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2015.05.012
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Uh and um as planners in the Corpus of Historical American English In I. Taavitsainen, M. Kytö, C. Claridge, & J. Smith (Eds.), Developments in English: Expanding Electronic Evidence (pp. 162–177). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139833882.019
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Negotiation of space in Second Life newbie interaction Discourse, Context & Media, 9, 34–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2015.06.002
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2014
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Pragmatics and language change: Historical pragmatics In Y. Huang (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 1–15). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.5
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Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics (Vol. 243). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.243
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Diachronic corpus pragmatics: Intersections and interactions In I. Taavitsainen, A. H. Jucker, & J. Tuominen (Eds.), Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics (No. 243; pp. 3–26). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.243
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The development of discourse presentation in The Times, 1833–1988 Media History, 20, 67–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2013.879793
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Complimenting in the history of American English: A metacommunicative expression analysis In I. Taavitsainen, A. H. Jucker, & J. Tuominen (Eds.), Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics (No. 243; pp. 257–276). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.243
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Pragmatics and language change: Historical pragmatics In Y. Huang (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 550–566). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.5
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“Maybe, but probably not”: Negotiating likelihood and perspective. Language and Dialogue, 4, 284–298. https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.4.2.06smi
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Courtesy and politeness in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 49, 5–28. https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2015-0007
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2013
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Communities of practice in the history of English (Vol. 235). John Benjamins. http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.235
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Of ledenum bocum to engliscum gereorde: Bilingual communities of practice in anglo-saxon England In J. Kopaczyk & A. H. Jucker (Eds.), Communities of Practice in the History of English (pp. 201–224). Benjamins.
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Corpus pragmatics In J.-O. Östman & J. Verschueren (Eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 1–17). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139057493
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