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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2013
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Uncovering layers of meaning in the history of the English language In A. H. Jucker, D. Landert, A. Seiler, & N. Studer-Joho (Eds.), Meaning in the History of English. Words and texts in context (pp. 1–15). John Benjamins.
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Meaning in the history of English. Words and texts in context (Vol. 148). John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/slcs.148/main
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English Historical Pragmatics Edinburgh University Press.
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Communities of practice as a locus of language change In J. Kopaczyk & A. H. Jucker (Eds.), Communities of practice in the history of English (pp. 1–16). John Benjamins. http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.235
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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 S. Chevalier & T. Honegger (Eds.), Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond. Festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (pp. 77–97). Narr.
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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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674312000214
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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 G. Mazzon & L. Fodda (Eds.), Historical Perspective on Forms of English Dialogue (pp. 40–58). FrancoAngeli.
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Pragmatics in the history of linguistic thought In K. Allan & K. M. Jaszczolt (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 495–512). Cambridge University Press.
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Semantic corpus trawling: Expressions of “courtesy” and “politeness” in the Helsinki Corpus In C. Suhr & I. Taavitsainen (Eds.), Developing Corpus Methodology for Historical Pragmatics (No. 11; pp. 1–1). Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English. http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/jucker_taavitsainen_schneider/
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Changes in politeness cultures In T. Nevalainen & E. C. Traugott (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the history of international law (pp. 422–433). Oxford University Press.
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Journal of Historical Pragmatics (Vols. 1–13). John Benjamins. http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jhp
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The linguistics of keyboard-to-screen communication. A new terminological framework Linguistik Online, 56, 1–26. http://www.linguistik-online.org/56_12/juckerDuerscheid.html
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Pragmatic variables In J. M. Hernández-Campoy & J. C. Conde-Silvestre (Eds.), The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics (No. 36; pp. 293–306). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118257227.ch16
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2011
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Communicating manuscripts: authors, scribes, readers, listeners and communicating characters In P. Pahta & A. H. Jucker (Eds.), Communicating early English manuscripts (pp. 3–10). Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/ch/knowledge/isbn/item5695988/
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The discourse of poverty in British newspapers: A CDA perspective In D. Valić Nedeljković (Ed.), Media Discourse of Poverty and Social Exclusion (pp. 13–19). Faculty of Philosophy.
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Communicating early English manuscripts Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org
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Private and public in mass media communication: from letters to the editor to online commentaries Journal of Pragmatics, 43, 1422–1434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.10.016
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Positive and negative face as descriptive categories in the history of English Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 12, 178–197. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.12.1-2.08juc
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Propositional modifiers in early English medical prose: A study on their historical development in noun phrases In P. Pahta & A. H. Jucker (Eds.), Communicating Early English Manuscripts (pp. 197–211). Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5695988/?site_locale=en_GB
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Historical speech act analysis: Greetings and farewells In J. Frenk & L. Steveker (Eds.), Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken. Proceedings (pp. 397–406). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag.
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