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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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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2011
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Propositional modifiers in early English medical prose: A study on their historical development in noun phrases. In: Pahta, Päivi; Jucker, Andreas H. Communicating Early English Manuscripts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 197-211.
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The discourse of poverty in British newspapers: A CDA perspective. In: Valić Nedeljković, Dubravka. Media Discourse of Poverty and Social Exclusion. Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, 13-19.
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Mass media. In: Östman, Jan Ola; Verschueren, Jef. Pragmatics in Practice. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 248-263.
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Historical speech act analysis: Greetings and farewells. In: Frenk, Joachim; Steveker, Lena. Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken. Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 397-406.
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Positive and negative face as descriptive categories in the history of English. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 12(1-2):178-197.
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「チョーサーの『カンタベリー物語』における呼称」. In: Takada, Hiroyuki; Shiina, Michi; Onodera, Noriko. 歴史語用論入門：過去のコニュニケーションを復元する (Introduction to Historical Pragmatics). Tokyo: Taishukan, 130-142.
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Greetings and farewells in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In: Pahta, Päivi; Jucker, Andreas H. Communicating early English manuscripts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 229-240.
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Communicating manuscripts: authors, scribes, readers, listeners and communicating characters. In: Pahta, Päivi; Jucker, Andreas H. Communicating early English manuscripts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3-10.
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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.
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2010
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"Audacious, brilliant!! What a strike!": Live text commentaries on the Internet as real-time narratives. In: Hoffmann, Christian R. Narrative Revisitied. Telling a Story in the Age of New Media. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 57-77.
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Historical pragmatics. In: Fried, Mirjam; et al. Variation and change: pragmatic perspectives. Amsterdam: Benajmins, 110-122.
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Trends and developments in historical pragmatics. In: Jucker, Andreas H; Taavitsainen, Irma. Historical pragmatics. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 3-30.
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Expressive speech acts and politeness in eighteenth-century English. In: Hickey, Raymond. Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 159-181.
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"In curteisie was set ful muchel hir lest": Politeness in Middle English. In: Culpeper, Jonathan; Kádár, Dániel Z. Historical (Im)Politeness. Bern: Peter Lang, 175-200.