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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2022
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Co-presence and beyond: Spatial configurations of communication in virtual environments In: Jucker, Andreas H; Hausendorf, Heiko . Pragmatics of Space. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 579-608.
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Architecture-for-interaction: Built, designed and furnished space for communicative purposes In: Jucker, Andreas H; Hausendorf, Heiko . Pragmatics of space. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 431-472.
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The pragmatics of written texts in space In: Jucker, Andreas H; Hausendorf, Heiko . Pragmatics of Space. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 549-577.
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Historical pragmatics In: Verschueren, Jef; Östman, Jan-Ola . Handbook of Pragmatics : Manual (2. Auflage). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 744-755.
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Corpus pragmatics In: Verschueren, Jef; Östman, Jan-Ola . Handbook of Pragmatics : Manual. Second edition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 1516-1527.
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Pragmatics of Space Edited by: Jucker, Andreas H; Hausendorf, Heiko (2022). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
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Doing space: The pragmatics of language and space In: Jucker, Andreas H; Hausendorf, Heiko . Pragmatics of space. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1-20.
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2021
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Features of orality in the language of fiction: A corpus-based investigation Language and Literature, 30(4):341-360.
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Methodological issues in digital conversation analysis Discourse, Context & Media, 42(100520):100520.
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Historical Sociopragmatics In: Haugh, Michael; Kádár, Dániel Z; Terkourafi, Marina . The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 687-709.
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“The uh deconstructed pumpkin pie”: the use of 'uh' and 'um' in Los Angeles restaurant server talk Journal of Pragmatics, 172:21-34.
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The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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2020
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Politeness in the history of English: from the Middle Ages to the present day Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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The discourse of manners and politeness in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama In: Jucker, Andreas H; Taavitsainen, Irma . Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English : Literary and linguistic approaches. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 102-120.
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Introduction - Manners, norms and transgressions in the history of English : literary and linguistic approaches In: Jucker, Andreas H; Taavitsainen, Irma . Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English : Literary and linguistic approaches. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 1-23.
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Digital pragmatics of English In: Adolphs, Svenja; Knight, Dawn . The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities. London: Routledge, 107-124.
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Manners, norms and transgressions in the history of English : literary and linguistic approaches Edited by: Jucker, Andreas H; Taavitsainen, Irma (2020). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
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2019
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Review of: Ehrhardt, Claus, und Eva Neuland (Hrsg.). Sprachliche Höflichkeit. Historische, aktuelle und künftige Perspektiven. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto (2017) Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, 11(1-2):8-11.
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Internet pragmatics and the fuzziness of analytical categories: a response to Francisco Yus Internet Pragmatics, 2(1):41-46.
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