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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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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Pragmatics of fiction: Literary uses of "uh" and "um" Journal of Pragmatics, 86:63-67.
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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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Courtesy and politeness in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 49(3):5-28.
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The development of discourse presentation in The Times, 1833–1988 Media History, 20(1):67-87.
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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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Pragmatics and language change: Historical pragmatics In: Huang, Yan . The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 550-566.
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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 Edited by: Taavitsainen, Irma; Jucker, Andreas H; Tuominen, Jukka (2014). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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"Maybe, but probably not": Negotiating likelihood and perspective Language and Dialogue, 4(2):284-298.
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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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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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Communities of practice in the history of English Edited by: Kopaczyk, Joanna; Jucker, Andreas H (2013). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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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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English Historical Pragmatics Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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Meaning in the history of English. Words and texts in context Edited by: Jucker, Andreas H; Landert, Daniela; Seiler, Annina; Studer-Joho, Nicole (2013). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
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Corpus pragmatics In: Östman, Jan-Ola; Verschueren, Jef . Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-17.
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2012
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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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Journal of Historical Pragmatics Edited by: Jucker, Andreas H; Taavitsainen, I (2012). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
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