About the Editors
Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. Spanning pragmatics, stylistics and the history of English, his major publications include Language and Characterisation in Plays and Other Texts (2001, Longman), Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction as Writing (2010, CUP; co-authored with Merja Kytö), Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence (2011, CUP), Pragmatics and the English Language (2014, Palgrave; with Michael Haugh), and English Language: Description, Variation and Context (2nd edn., 2018, Palgrave; lead editor). He was awarded a prestigious three-year ESRC UK Fellowship (2006-9) to study linguistic impoliteness, and for five years was co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pragmatics (2009-14). He is currently leading the £1 million AHRC-funded Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language project, which will provide evidence-based and contextualized accounts of Shakespeare’s language.
Michael Haugh is Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Australia. Spanning pragmatics, intercultural communication and humour studies, his major publications include Understanding Politeness (2013, CUP; co-authored with Dániel Kádár), Pragmatics and the English Language (2014, Palgrave; with Jonathan Culpeper), and Im/politeness Implicatures (2015, Mouton). He is a leading proponent of the Australian National Corpus and the recent establishment of the Language Technology and Data Analytics Lab (LADAL) at the University of Queensland. He is currently co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pragmatics (2015~), and has substantial editorial experience, including most recently, Doing Pragmatics Interculturally: Cognitive, Philosophical and Sociopragmatic Perspectives (2017, Mouton; with Rachel Giora), the Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness (2017, Palgrave; with Jonathan Culpeper and Dániel Kádár), the Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics (forthcoming, CUP; with Dániel Kádár and Marina Terkourafi), and Action Ascription (forthcoming, CUP; with Arnulf Deppermann).
Contact the Editors
If you would like more information about this series, or are interested in writing an Element, please contact one of the editors, Jonathan Culpeper (j.culpeper@lancaster.ac.uk) or Michael Haugh (michael.haugh@uq.edu.au).
About the Editorial Board
- Anne Barron (Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany)
- Betty Birner (Northern Illinois University, USA)
- Lucien Brown (Monash University, Australia)
- Billy Clark (Northumbria University, UK)
- Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
- Andreas Jucker (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Zohar Kampf (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
- Miriam A. Locher (Universität Basel)
- Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University, USA)
- Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
- Chaoqun Xie (Zhejiang International Studies University)
