{"id":266,"date":"2018-05-15T05:29:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T05:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/?p=266"},"modified":"2018-06-26T00:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:22:46","slug":"prof-miriam-a-locher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/speakers\/prof-miriam-a-locher\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Miriam A. Locher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor Miriam Locher<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unibas.ch\/en.html\">University of Basel<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p>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 eucor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hpsl-linguistics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hermann-Paul School of Linguistics<\/a>\u00a0for PhD students.<\/p>\n<p>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 project\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" title=\"Opens internal link in current window\" href=\"https:\/\/english.philhist.unibas.ch\/en\/research\/research-projects\/snf-life-beyond-writing\/\">Life (Beyond) Writing: Illness Narratives<\/a>(SNF 2009\u20132012) and\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" title=\"Opens internal link in current window\" href=\"https:\/\/english.philhist.unibas.ch\/en\/research\/research-projects\/snf-language-and-health-online\/\">Language and Health Online<\/a>\u00a0(SNF 2012\u20132016), and worked on a project on\u00a0<a title=\"Opens internal link in current window\" href=\"https:\/\/forschdb2.unibas.ch\/inf2\/rm_projects\/object_view.php?r=103882&amp;type=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Relational work in Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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 Luginb\u00fchl (Basel), Barbara Pizziconi (SOAS), M.-T. Rudolf von Rohr (Basel), J\u00fcrg Str\u00e4ssler (Zurich) and Franziska Thurnherr (Basel). She is active in giving talks at conferences and workshops.<\/p>\n<p>She administers the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swell.unibas.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SWELL<\/a>\u00a0(Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics) mailing list, which is used for the networking of all Swiss doctoral and habilitation researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 eucor\u00a0Hermann-Paul School of Linguistics\u00a0for PhD students. Her research&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/imean6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}