Andreas H. Jucker
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andreas H. Jucker is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2542-3851 | E‑ISSN 2542‑386X
Book series
Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown
Politeness and impoliteness are not just expressed by words. People communicate polite and impolite attitudes towards each other through their intonation, tone of voice, their facial expressions, their gestures, the positioning of their bodies towards each other, and so on. This volume brings… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 333] 2023. vii, 360 pp.
Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners and norms of behaviour as an analytical tool to shed light on the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 312] 2020. viii, 298 pp.
Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen
Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace them. The chapters in this volume focus on linguistic elements at several levels, from individual words to phrases, clauses and entire… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243] 2014. viii, 335 pp.
Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho
Uncovering the meaning of individual words or entire texts is a complex process that needs to take into consideration the multiple interactions of linguistic organization including orthography, morphology, syntax and, ultimately, pragmatics. The papers in this volume pay close attention to these… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 148] 2013. vii, 348 pp.
Communities of Practice in the History of English
Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Andreas H. Jucker
Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users. The articles in this volume showcase a range of such communities and their practices as loci of language change in the history of English. The notion of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 235] 2013. vii, 291 pp.
Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker
In Early Modern Britain, new publication channels were developed and new textual genres established themselves. News discourse became increasingly more important and reached wider audiences, with pamphlets as the first real mass media. Newspapers appeared, first on a weekly and then on a daily… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 187] 2009. vii, 227 pp.
Speech Acts in the History of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 176] 2008. viii, 318 pp.
Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker
Address term systems and their diachronic developments are discussed in a wide range of European languages in this volume. Most chapters focus on pronominal systems, and in particular on the criteria that govern the choices between a more intimate and a more distant or polite pronoun, as for… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 107] 2003. vii, 441 pp.
Historical Dialogue Analysis
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft
Historical dialogue analysis is a new branch of historical pragmatics. The papers of this interdisciplinary volume contribute to charting the developing field by presenting a survey of recent research from the different traditions of English, German and Romance language studies. Both the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 66] 1999. viii, 478 pp.
Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Yael Ziv
Studies of Discourse Markers so far have concentrated on either the descriptive or the theoretical parameter. This book brings together thirteen papers concerning aspects of lexical instantiations of Discourse Marking devices, ranging from functional descriptions along cognitive, attitudinal,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 57] 1998. x, 363 pp.
Current Issues in Relevance Theory
Edited by Villy Rouchota and Andreas H. Jucker
The eleven original papers collected in this volume address themselves to some of the central issues in the relevance theoretic research programme since the 1995 publication of the second edition of Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance. Communication and Cognition.Several papers investigate the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 58] 1998. xii, 368 pp.
Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker
Until very recently, pragmatics has been restricted to the analysis of contemporary spoken language while historical linguistics has studied historical texts and language change in a decontextualized way. This has now radically changed and scholars from around the world are trying to build a new… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 35] 1995. xvi, 623 pp.
News Interviews: A pragmalinguistic analysis
Andreas H. Jucker
Jucker endeavors to test pragmatic concepts (such as Grice’s principles of conversational inference) by applying them to concrete data. This application leads to suggestions for various modifications in the available pragmatic methodology. While pursuing this theoretical goal, he makes a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:4] 1986. ix, 195 pp.
2026 “Pray, Sir, Proceed”: The politeness of requests in epistolary novels of the long eighteenth century Journal of Historical Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Requests are speech acts that ask somebody to do something that they might not have done without being asked. They impose on the addressee. In Present-day English, a range of linguistic devices are often used to make this imposition more palatable, such as questions about the addressee’s… read more
2023 Chapter 1. Multimodal im/politeness: Introduction Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Chapter
2023 Chapter 12. “He offered an apologetic smile”: The politeness of apologetic gestures Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 327–351 | Chapter
This contribution focuses on the multimodal aspects of apologies. In terms of politeness and face management, apologies are ambivalent. They are redressive and indicate a concern for the hearer, but they also include a certain amount of self-blame and thus threaten the speaker’s own positive… read more
2022 Corpus pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1516–1527 | Chapter
2022 Historical pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 744–755 | Chapter
2020 The discourse of manners and politeness in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 101–120 | Chapter
The eighteenth century is often referred to as the age of politeness, and the term politeness has been argued to be a key term in a variety of settings at this time. This paper sets out to investigate the discourse of politeness and, more generally, the discourse of manners during this period… read more
2020 Manners, norms and transgressions: Introduction Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Chapter
In this volume we focus on different types of manners, norms and their transgressions. One kind of transgression can be called “blunders” and deals with violations of accepted behaviour, conduct or manners. A second kind draws more attention to language use in interpersonal communication with… read more
2019 Internet pragmatics and the fuzziness of analytical categories: A response to Francisco Yus Internet Pragmatics 2:1, pp. 41–45 | Commentary
2015 Twenty years of historical pragmatics: Origins, developments and changing thought styles Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
This paper provides an outline of the changes in linguistics that gave rise to historical pragmatics in the 1990s and that have shaped its development over the twenty years of its existence. These changes have affected virtually all aspects of linguistic analyses: the nature of the data, the… read more
2014 Diachronic corpus pragmatics: Intersections and interactions Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 3–26 | Article
2014 Complimenting in the history of American English: A metacommunicative expression analysis Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 257–276 | Article
Speech acts are functional entities and can, therefore, not be searched for directly in large computerised corpora. They can only be located on the basis of specific patterns that are known to be typical for a particular speech act, e.g. with IFIDs like “(I’m) sorry”. In this contribution we… read more
2014 “Maybe, but probably not”: Negotiating likelihood and perspective Language and Dialogue 4:2, pp. 284–298 | Article
The goal of our paper is to explore one of the functions of everyday expressions of likelihood; more specifically, to propose that they play an important role in negotiating not only likelihood but also perspective. We will examine examples of such expressions in the context of conversational… read more
2013 Corpus pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: 2013 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2013 Communities of practice as a locus of language change Communities of Practice in the History of English, Kopaczyk, Joanna and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2013 Uncovering layers of meaning in the history of the English language Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context, Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2012 Positive and negative face as descriptive categories in the history of English Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness: Relational linguistic practice over time and across cultures, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 175–194 | Article
Studies in the history of politeness in English have generally relied on the notions of positive and negative face. While earlier work argued that a general trend from positive politeness to negative politeness can be observed, more recent work has shown that in Old English and in Middle English… read more
2011 Mass media Pragmatics in Practice, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 248–263 | Article
2011 Positive and negative face as descriptive categories in the history of English Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 178–197 | Article
Studies in the history of politeness in English have generally relied on the notions of positive and negative face. While earlier work argued that a general trend from positive politeness to negative politeness can be observed, more recent work has shown that in Old English and in Middle English… read more
2010 “Audacious, brilliant!! What a strike!”: Live text commentaries on the Internet as real-time narratives Narrative Revisited: Telling a story in the age of new media, Hoffmann, Christian R. (ed.), pp. 57–78 | Article
Live text commentaries, published on the Internet, are written narratives that give a minute-by-minute account of a sports event while it is actually unfolding. Alternative terms that have been suggested for them are “event tracker”, “live ticker”, “minute-by-minute report”, or “matchcast”. They… read more
2010 Historical pragmatics Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives, Fried, Mirjam, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 110–122 | Article
2009 Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse in Early Modern Britain Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 1–9 | Article
2008 Politeness in the history of English English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dury, Richard, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena (eds.), pp. 3–29 | Article
Politeness in English has often been seen as a development from a positive politeness culture to a negative politeness culture. Several case studies provide evidence for such a development. A first case study offers an analysis of the use of pronominal terms of address in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales… read more
2008 Communicative tasks across languages: Movie narratives in English, in English as a foreign language and in German Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez (eds.), pp. 247–274 | Article
In cooperation between the California State University, Long Beach and the Justus Liebig University, Giessen narratives were elicited from different groups of speakers (native speakers of English and native speakers of German who contributed either narratives in English or in their native language). read more
2008 Apologies in the history of English: Routinized and lexicalized expressions of responsibility and regret Speech Acts in the History of English, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 229–244 | Article
2008 Fishing for compliments: Precision and recall in corpus-linguistic compliment research Speech Acts in the History of English, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 273–294 | Article
2008 Speech acts now and then: Towards a pragmatic history of English Speech Acts in the History of English, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Article
2008 "Methinks you seem more beautiful than ever": Compliments and gender in the history of English Speech Acts in the History of English, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 195–228 | Article
2006 Historical pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2005 News discourse: Mass media communication from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past, Skaffari, Janne, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 7–21 | Article
Against the methodological background of historical discourse analysis, this paper traces some of the relevant factors that influenced the development of news discourse from the seventeenth to the twenty first century. In the seventeenth century the occasional news publications that were published… read more
2005 Mass media Handbook of Pragmatics: 2003–2005 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2003 Mass media communication at the beginning of the twenty-first century: Dimensions of change Media and Language Change, Herring, Susan C. (ed.), pp. 129–148 | Article
This paper identifies and analyses current dimensions of change in mass media communication and in particular changes in mass media news transmitted via the Internet. In comparison with traditional media such as newspapers, Internet mass media products rely increasingly on a hypertext structure… read more
2003 1. Diachronic perspectives on address term systems: Introduction Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems, Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article
2002 Discourse markers as turns: Evidence for the role of intersubjectivity
in interactional sequences
Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 151–178 | Article
2000 Editorial Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1:1, pp. v–vi | Miscellaneous
2000 Diachronic speech act analysis: Insults from flyting to flaming Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1:1, pp. 67–95 | Article
In this paper we want to develop a model for the diachronic analysis of speech acts by tracing one particular speech act through the history of English, viz. insults. Speech acts are fuzzy concepts which show both diachronic and synchronic variation. We therefore propose a notion of a… read more
2000 Actually and other markers of an apparent discrepancy between propositional attitudes of conversational partners Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude, Andersen, Gisle and Thorstein Fretheim (eds.), pp. 207–238 | Article
1999 Historical Dialogue Analysis: Roots and Traditions in the Study of the Romance Languages, German and English Historical Dialogue Analysis, Jucker, Andreas H., Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Article
1998 And people just you know like ‘wow’: Discourse Markers as Negotiating Strategies Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory, Jucker, Andreas H. and Yael Ziv (eds.), pp. 171–202 | Article
1998 Discourse Markers: Introduction Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory, Jucker, Andreas H. and Yael Ziv (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
1998 Introduction Current Issues in Relevance Theory, Rouchota, Villy and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
1998 Interactive aspects of reference assignment in conversations The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences, Kronfeld, Amichai and Lawrence D. Roberts (eds.), pp. 153–187 | Article
We propose a model of reference that contrasts with standard linguistic approaches in that it focuses on the role of interaction in reference, arguing that referring expressions in conversations are not designed for interchangeable audiences but rather exploit the common ground between partners.… read more
1997 Persuasion by Inference: Analysis of a party political broadcast Political Linguistics, Blommaert, Jan † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 121–137 | Article
1996 Mass media Handbook of Pragmatics: 1995 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
1996 Explicit and implicit ways of enhancing common ground in conversations Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 1–18 | Article
1995 The historical Perspective in Pragmatics Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 3–36 | Article