Anglistisches Seminar Prof. Dr. Landert

Since 2022

Professor of English Linguistics, English Department, Heidelberg University

2020–2022

Assistant Professor / SNSF-PRIMA Research Fellow in English Linguistics, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Basel (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)

2021

Habilitation in English Linguistics, University of Zurich

2016–2020

Senior Research and Teaching Associate, English Department, University of Zurich

2018

Adjunct lecturer, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Basel

2014–2016

Post-Doctoral Researcher / Academic Associate, English Department, University of Zurich (funded by research grant Forschungskredit of the University of Zurich)

2015

Visiting researcher at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Lancaster, UK (Jul–Dec)

2015

Visiting researcher at the Research Unit for the Study of Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG), University of Helsinki, Finland (Jan–Jun)

2012

PhD in English Linguistics, University of Zurich

2008-2014

Research and Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Zurich

2002–2008

Lizenziat in English Language and Literature (main), Computational Linguistics (1st subsidiary) and History (2nd subsidiary), University of Zurich

Books

• Landert, Daniela. 2024. Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics. Epistemic stance in Early Modern English. (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   
• Locher, Miriam A., Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert & Thomas C. Messerli. 2023. 

  Fiction and Pragmatics (Elements in Pragmatics)

  . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   
• Landert, Daniela, Daria Dayter, Thomas C. Messerli & Miriam A. Locher. 2023. 

  Corpus Pragmatics (Elements in Pragmatics)

  . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Landert, Daniela. 2014. 

  Personalisation in Mass Media Communication. British online news between public and private.

   (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 240). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler, and Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.). 2013. Meaning in the History of English. Words and Texts in Context. (Studies in Language Companion Series 148). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Research Articles

• Landert, Daniela. 2025. 

  “To telle yow [...] whiche they weren, and of what degree” – Direct characterisation across the centuries

  . Narrative 33(2). 195–215.
• Landert, Daniela. 2024. 

  “This can’t be true: Presenting lies in television series”

  . Anglistik 35(3). 149–169.
• Jucker, Andreas H. & Daniela Landert. 2023. 

  “The diachrony of im/politeness in American an British movies (1930-2019)”

  . Journal of Pragmatics 209. 123–141.
• Landert, Daniela, Tanja Säily & Mika Hämäläinen. 2023. 

  “TV series as disseminators of emerging vocabulary: Non-codified expressions in the TV Corpus”.

   ICAME Journal 47(1).
• Tonetti Tübben, Ilenia & Daniela Landert. 2023. 

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  Contrastive Pragmatics 4.2: 350-381.
• Landert, Daniela. 2021. “Only one chance to make a first impression: Characterisation in the opening scenes of TV series pilot episodes”. In Carmen Gregori-Signes, Miguel Fuster-Márquez & Sergio Maruenda-Bataller (eds.), 

  Discourse, Dialogue and Characterisation in TV Series

  , 109–126. Granada: Editorial Comares.
• Landert, Daniela. 2021. 

  “The spontaneous co-creation of comedy: Humour in improvised theatrical fiction”

  , Journal of Pragmatics. Elsevier, 173, pp. 68–87.
• Taavitsainen, Irma and Daniela Landert. 2019. “Science”. In: Peter Brown (ed.). A New Companion to Chaucer. Second Edition. Hoboken/Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 379–393.
• Landert, Daniela. 2019. “Function-to-form mapping in corpora: Historical corpus pragmatics and the study of stance expressions”. In: Carla Suhr, Terttu Nevalainen and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.). From Data to Evidence in English Language Research. (Digital Linguistics). Leiden: Brill, 169–190.
• Landert, Daniela. 2017. “Participation as user involvement”. In: Christian R. Hoffmann and Wolfram Bublitz (eds.). Pragmatics of Social Media. (Handbooks of Pragmatics, Volume 11). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 31–60.
• Landert, Daniela and Gianluca Miscione. 2017. 

  “Narrating the stories of leaked data: The changing role of journalists after Wikileaks and Snowden”.

   In: Marjut Johansson, Sonja Kleinke and Lotta Lehti (eds.). Discourse, Context & Media 19: 13–21.
• Landert, Daniela. 2017. “Stance in fiction”. In: Miriam A. Locher and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.). Pragmatics of Fiction. (Handbooks of Pragmatics, Volume 12). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 489-514.
• Landert, Daniela. 2017a. 

  “Meta-communicative expressions and situational variation of stance marking: 

  . Nordic Journal of English Studies 16(1). 120–144.
• Jucker, Andreas H. and Daniela Landert. 2017. “Variation and change: Historical Pragmatics”. In: Anne Barron, Yueguo Gu and Gerard Steen (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics. London/New York: Routledge, 79-90.
• Landert, Daniela. 2015. “Reportable facts and a personal touch. The functions of direct quotes in online news”. In: Jenny Arendholz, Wolfram Bublitz and Monika Kirner (eds.) The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then. (Topics in English Linguistics 89). London/New York: De Gruyter, 29-52.
• Jucker, Andreas H. & Daniela Landert. 2015. 

  “Historical pragmatics and early speech recordings: Diachronic developments in turn-taking and narrative structure in radio talk shows”

  . Journal of Pragmatics 79. 22–39.
• Landert, Daniela. 2014. 

  “Blurring the boundaries of mass media communication? Interaction and user-generated content on online news sites”.

   In: Jukka Tyrkkö and Sirpa Leppänen (eds.). Texts and Discourses of New Media (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English 15). Helsinki: VARIENG.
• Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler, and Nicole Studer-Joho. 2013. “Uncovering layers of meaning in the history of the English language”. In: Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler, and Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.) Meaning in the History of English. Words and Texts in Context. (Studies in Language Companion Series 148). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1-15.
• Landert, Daniela, and Andreas H. Jucker. 2011. 

  “Private and public in mass media communication: From letters to the editor to online commentaries”.

   Journal of Pragmatics 43.5, 1422-1434.
• Landert, Daniela. 2009. “Constructing (non-)normative identities online. Self-classifications in text-based online chats”. Hegemonies in Classification Processes. Special Issue of ISA RC 25 Language & Society Newsletter 6.2.

Book Reviews

• Landert, Daniela. 2023. Review of Grund, Peter J. Peter J. Grund, The sociopragmatics of stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 329). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2021. Pp. ix + 246. ISBN 9789027258236. English Language and Linguistics 27.4, 864-869. 

  https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674323000023

• Landert, Daniela. 2017. Review of Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl (eds.). Changing Genre Convenstions in Historical English News Discourse. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, PA: Benjamins, 2015. Anglia 135.2, 358–362.

Completed PhD projects

• Xie, Ye. Silence in Television Discourse: A Multimodal Perspective on Talk Shows and Sitcoms.

Ongoing PhD projects

• Fu, Wanyu. Effects of Corpus-based Materials on Pragmatic Markers in Spoken English by Chinese Adult EFL Learners.
• Katkova, Darya. Linguistic Features of British Legal Texts Before and After Brexit: A corpus-based study.
• Yim, Oriana. Conceptualising Health in Early Modern English Correspondence: A pragmatic analysis.