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Professor Miriam A. Locher

Professor Miriam Locher
University of Basel

Biography

Miriam A. Locher started her position as Professor of the Linguistics of English at the University of Basel in 2008. She teaches in the BA English, MA English and the MA Language and Communication and is a member of the eucorĀ Hermann-Paul School of LinguisticsĀ for PhD students.

Her research is on interpersonal pragmatics, linguistic politeness, relational work, the exercise of power, disagreements, advice-giving (in health contexts) and computer-mediated communication. She supervised the research projectĀ Life (Beyond) Writing: Illness Narratives(SNF 2009ā€“2012) andĀ Language and Health OnlineĀ (SNF 2012ā€“2016), and worked on a project onĀ Relational work in Facebook.

Her publications comprise monographs, edited collections and special issues as well as a numerous articles in journals and collections. Her collaborators are Jo Angouri (Warwick), Brook Bolander (Hong Kong), Derek Bousfield (Manchester), Sage Graham (Memphis), Franziska Gygax (Basel), Andreas H. Jucker (Zurich), Andreas Langlotz (Basel), Holger Limberg (Flensburg), Martin LuginbĆ¼hl (Basel), Barbara Pizziconi (SOAS), M.-T. Rudolf von Rohr (Basel), JĆ¼rg StrƤssler (Zurich) and Franziska Thurnherr (Basel). She is active in giving talks at conferences and workshops.

She administers theĀ SWELLĀ (Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics) mailing list, which is used for the networking of all Swiss doctoral and habilitation researchers.

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