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Summary / Zusammenfassung In the context of this project, specific speech acts are studied in the history of the English language. 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? Specific speech acts that have already been studied in detail within this project include insults, apologies, and compliments. Speech Acts in the History of English

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Summary / Zusammenfassung
In the context of this project, specific speech acts are studied in the history of the English
language. 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? Specific speech acts that have already been studied in detail within this project
include insults, apologies, and compliments.
As a next step, a larger project is planned on expressive speech acts. In these speech acts the
expression of the speaker's feelings takes precedence over other functions. Relevant examples are
greetings, farewells, compliments, apologies, insults and so on.
Speech Acts in the History of English
Publications / Publikationen
Taavitsainen, Irma, and Andreas H. Jucker. (2010) Expressive speech acts and politeness in
eighteenth-century English. In: Raymond Hickey (ed.). Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and
Change. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 159-181.
Jucker, Andreas H. (2009) Speech act research between armchair, field and laboratory: The case of
compliments. Journal of Pragmatics 41, 1611-1635.
Jucker, Andreas H. (2008) Politeness in the history of English. In: Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti
and Marina Dossena (eds.). English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic
Change. Selected Papers from the Fourteenth International Conference on English Historical
Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins,
3-29.
Jucker, Andreas H., and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.). (2008) Speech Acts in the History of English.
(Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 176). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Jucker, Andreas H., and Irma Taavitsainen (2008) Apologies in the history of English: Routinized
and lexicalized expressions of responsibility and regret. In: Andreas H. Jucker and Irma
Taavitsainen (eds.). Speech Acts in the History of English. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
176). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 229-244.
Jucker, Andreas H., Gerold Schneider, Irma Taavitsainen and Barb Breustedt. (2008) Fishing for
compliments: Precision and recall in corpus-linguistic compliment research. In: Andreas H. Jucker,
and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.). Speech Acts in the History of English. (Pragmatics & Beyond New
Series 176). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 273-294.
Taavitsainen, Irma, and Andreas H. Jucker. (2008) “Methinks you seem more beautiful than ever”:
Compliments and gender in the history of English. In: Andreas H. Jucker, and Irma Taavitsainen
(eds.). Speech Acts in the History of English. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 176).
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 195-228.
Taavitsainen, Irma, and Andreas H. Jucker. (2008) Speech acts now and then: Towards a
pragmatic history of English. In: Andreas H. Jucker, and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.). Speech Acts in
the History of English. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 176). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins, 1-23.
Taavitsainen, Irma, and Andreas H. Jucker. (2007) Speech acts and speech act verbs in the history
of English. In: Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.). Methods in Historical
Pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 107-138.
Jucker, Andreas H., and Irma Taavitsainen (2000) Diachronic speech act analysis: Insults from
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Project Leadership and Contacts / Projektleitung und Kontakte
Prof. Dr. Andreas H. Jucker (Project Leader) ahjucker@es.uzh.ch
Keywords / Suchbegriffe
pragmatics, speech acts, history of English
Funding Source(s) / Unterstützt durch
No project-specific funding
Prof. Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki
Duration of Project / Projektdauer
Sep 2002 to Dec 2015
Finland
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Speech act research between armchair, field and laboratory: The case of compliments
Article
  • Aug 2009
  • J PRAGMATICS
In this paper I discuss pragmatic research methods and their suitability to different research questions in speech act research. Clark and Bangerter [Clark, H.H., Bangerter, A., 2004. Changing ideas about reference. In: Noveck, I.A., Sperber, D. (Eds.), Experimental Pragmatics (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition). Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, pp. 25–49] use the terms "armchair", "field" and "laboratory" to refer to linguistic methods based on intuited data, natural data and elicited data, respectively. In this paper I will not argue for the superiority of one of these methods over the other two. I take the view that it depends on the specific research question whether one or the other of these three approaches can yield useful insights. I will illustrate these considerations with research efforts in the field of compliment research. Compliments are particularly interesting because they pose a politeness dilemma for the recipient, who either has to violate the maxim of agreement or the maxim of modesty. They have been investigated from very different perspectives (pattern of the compliment, the demographics of the complimenter and the compliment recipient, compliment responses and so on) and with a range of different methods (including the notebook method, the corpus method and discourse completion tests). I will review this literature and discuss the suitability of individual methods in relation to individual research questions.
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Politeness in the history of English English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change
  • Jan 2006
  • 21-25
  • Andreas H Jucker
Jucker, Andreas H. (2008) Politeness in the history of English. In: Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena (eds.). English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change. Selected Papers from the Fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 3-29.