Andreas H. Jucker

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Andreas H. Jucker is a Swiss linguist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich (UZH). Jucker is regarded as one of the pioneers of the field of historical pragmatics and is known for his research on the history of politeness, speech act theory, and the pragmatics of fiction. From 2019 to 2024, Jucker served as the President of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE). [1]

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Education

Jucker studied at the University of Zurich, where he earned his PhD (Dr. phil.) in 1986. His doctoral thesis, a pragmalinguistic analysis of news interviews, was published that same year by John Benjamins. [2] He continued his postdoctoral research at Zurich and completed his Habilitation in 1992. His habilitation thesis on "Social Stylistics: Syntactic Variation in British Newspapers" was published by Mouton de Gruyter. [3]

During his early career, he spent time as a researcher at the University of Cambridge and as a guest professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

Academic career

In 1992, shortly after his Habilitation, Jucker was appointed Professor of English Linguistics at the Justus Liebig University Giessen in Germany. [4] He held this position for ten years before returning to Switzerland in 2002 to accept the Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich. [5] During his tenure at UZH, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 2013 to 2017. [6] [7] He retired in 2022 and currently holds the title of Professor Emeritus.

Research and contributions

Jucker is widely recognized as one of the founding figures of historical pragmatics, a subfield of linguistics that investigates how language use and communicative patterns have evolved over time. He co-founded the Journal of Historical Pragmatics in 2000, which became the central publication for the field. [8]

Professional service

Jucker has played a significant role in the governance of English studies in Europe:

Selected publications

Jucker has authored and edited numerous books and articles. His key monographs include:

References

  1. ↑ "Most important decisions taken by the Board of ESSE during its ONLINE meeting on 27th August 2021 – ESSE" . Retrieved 2025-11-23.
  2. 1 2 Jucker, Andreas H. (1986-01-01). News Interviews: A pragmalinguistic analysis. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN   978-90-272-7930-9.
  3. 1 2 Jucker, Andreas H. (2012-01-02). Social Stylistics: Syntactic Variation in British Newspapers. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   978-3-11-085115-1.
  4. ↑ Jucker, Andreas H. (1996). "Pragmatics and Language Learning" (PDF). ERIC Document Reproduction Service (ED400700): 15. Retrieved 2025-11-23. Andreas Jucker is Professor of English Linguistics at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.
  5. ↑ Kürschner, Wilfried, ed. (1994). Linguisten-Handbuch (in German). Vol. 1. Tübingen: Narr. p. 425. ISBN   3-8233-5000-5.
  6. ↑ Fuchs, Marita (December 2013). "Von Marrakesch bis Tokio". UZH Journal (in German). No. 6. p. 3. Andreas H. Jucker, Dekan der Philosophischen Fakultät
  7. ↑ "UZH Journal 6/13". Issuu. 2013-12-09. Retrieved 2025-11-23.
  8. ↑ Kopaczyk, Joanna (2015-01-01). "Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen. 2013. English Historical Pragmatics" . Journal of Historical Pragmatics. 16 (2): 321–326. doi:10.1075/jhp.16.2.10kop. ISSN   1566-5852.
  9. ↑ Jucker, Andreas H. (2000). History of English and English Historical Linguistics. Klett. ISBN   978-3-12-939584-4.
  10. ↑ Jucker, Andreas H.; Taavitsainen, Irma (2008). Speech Acts in the History of English. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN   978-90-272-5420-7.
  11. ↑ "English Historical Pragmatics". Edinburgh University Press Books. Retrieved 2025-11-23.
  12. ↑ Jucker, Andreas H. (2020). Politeness in the History of English: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-108-49962-0.
  13. ↑ Culpeper, Jonathan (2021-12-01). "Book Review: Politeness in the History of English: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day" . Journal of English Linguistics. 49 (4): 475–478. doi:10.1177/00754242211005831. ISSN   0075-4242.
  14. ↑ "The Pragmatics of Fiction". Edinburgh University Press Books. Retrieved 2025-11-23.
  15. ↑ "Speech Acts". Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Retrieved 2025-11-23.
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