Publication | Special issue

(Im)politeness, humour, and the role of intentions: Essays presented to Michael Haugh

From corpus pragmatics and metapragmatics to accountability and intentions, and from conversational structure and im/politeness to the role of emotions in utterance interpretation, the short articles collected here represent not just the wide scope of Michael's own work but also a snapshot of the field, as it is shaping up in the first decades of the twenty-first century.

Author

Edited by Marina Terkourafi and Anne Bezuidenhout

Date

01 July 2021

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Elsevier

After more than 10 years on the editorial team of the Journal of Pragmatics, the last six of which as co-editor in chief, at the beginning of 2021 Michael Haugh stepped down from his editorial duties and rejoined the editorial board of the journal. Michael's contributions during this time have been multiple: not only has he steered the journal safely through multiple transitions, he has managed to do so with unfailing good humour and resolve, shifting the balance between the two as the situation demanded. During this time, important initiatives have also been launched, such as the Jacob Mey and Hartmut Haberland Early Career award, launched on the occasion of the journal's 40th anniversary in 2017.

In recognition of this long and successful tenure on the journal's front line, we have collected in this special issue a series of essays by Michael's co-authors and collaborators in various roles as a small token of our appreciation for his years of service. While the list of contributors could decidedly be longer, the resulting essays are nevertheless representative of the breadth of Michael's contributions to the field.