Prof. Dr. Daniela Landert
Anglistisches Seminar/Department of English
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Kettengasse 12
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
+49 6221 54 30 83
daniela.landert@as.uni-heidelberg.de
Room 252
Daniela Landert is Professor of English Linguistics. Her research focuses on pragmatics and her research interests include the study of spontaneous language, performed language, pragmatics of fiction, historical linguistics and historical pragmatics, corpus linguistics, corpus pragmatics, stance and modality, news discourse and mass media communication. Currently, she is working on a research project on how the spontaneous production of spoken language affects linguistic forms and functions. In a recently completed project, she studied epistemic stance in Early Modern English, a project in which she evaluated existing and developed new methods for studying pragmatic functions based on electronic corpora. More information on her research projects is provided below.
Daniela Landert is the Editor of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics and she is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Pragmatics, the Journal of Language and Pop Culture, and the book series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.
Team Landert
Publications
Books
Research monographs
Landert, Daniela. 2024. Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics. Epistemic stance in Early Modern English (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009237369.
Landert, Daniela. 2014. Personalisation in Mass Media Communication: British online news between public and private (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 240). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.240.
Short books
Landert, Daniela, Daria Dayter, Thomas C. Messerli & Miriam A. Locher. 2023. Corpus Pragmatics (Elements in Pragmatics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009091107.
Locher, Miriam A., Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert & Thomas C. Messerli. 2023. Fiction and Pragmatics (Elements in Pragmatics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009091688.
Edited volumes
Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler & 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. forthcoming. From spontaneous to semi-scripted language. In Valentin Werner, Cecelia Cutler & Andrew Moody (eds.), Handbook of Language and Pop Culture. De Gruyter Mouton.
Landert, Daniela. 2026a. Epistemic Stance Adjectives in Early Modern English. Journal of English Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1177/00754242261455907.
Landert, Daniela. 2026b. Spontane Dialoge in improvisiertem Theater (Improv): Zur Sammlung und Aufbereitung von Videoaufnahmen und Transkriptionen für Forschungszwecke. In Heidelberg University Publishing (Kulturelles Erbe: Materialität - Text - Edition (KEMTE) 7), 247–255. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1634.c23609.
Landert, Daniela. 2026c. Pragmatic annotation. In Luke Collins & Michaela Mahlberg (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 255–259. Third Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01143-1.
Landert, Daniela. 2025. “To telle yow [...] whiche they weren, and of what degree” – Direct characterisation across the centuries. Narrative 33(2). 195–215. https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.00018.
Landert, Daniela. 2024. This can’t be true: Presenting lies in television series. Anglistik 35(3). 149–169. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2024/3/11.
Jucker, Andreas H. & Daniela Landert. 2023. The diachrony of im/politeness in American and British movies (1930-2019). Journal of Pragmatics 209. 123–141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.02.020.
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). https://doi.org/doi.org/10.2478/icame-2023-0004.
Tonetti Tübben, Ilenia & Daniela Landert. 2022. Uh and um as pragmatic markers in dialogues: A contrastive perspective on the functions of planners in fiction and conversation. Contrastive Pragmatics 4(2). 350–381. https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10049.
Landert, Daniela. 2021a. The spontaneous co-creation of comedy: Humour in improvised theatrical fiction. Journal of Pragmatics 173. 68–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.12.007.
Landert, Daniela. 2021b. 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. https://www.comares.com/media/comares/files/book-attachment-7002.pdf.
Landert, Daniela. 2019. Function-to-form mapping in corpora: Historical corpus pragmatics and the study of stance expressions. In Carla Suhr, Terttu Nevalainen & Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), From Data to Evidence in English Language Research, 169–190. Leiden / Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390652_009.
Taavitsainen, Irma & Daniela Landert. 2019. Science. In Peter Brown (ed.), A New Companion to Chaucer, 379–393. Hoboken / Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Jucker, Andreas H. & Daniela Landert. 2017. Variation and change: historical pragmatics. In Anne Barron, Yueguo Gu & Gerard Steen (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics), 79–90. Routledge.
Landert, Daniela. 2017a. Stance in fiction. In Miriam A. Locher & Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), Pragmatics of Fiction (Handbooks of Pragmatics 12), 489–514. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110431094-016.
Landert, Daniela. 2017b. Participation as user involvement. In Christian R. Hoffmann & Wolfram Bublitz (eds.), Pragmatics of Social Media (Handbooks of Pragmatics 11), 31–60. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110431070-002.
Landert, Daniela. 2017c. Meta-communicative expressions and situational variation of stance marking: I say and I tell (you) in Early Modern English dialogues. Nordic Journal of English Studies 16(1). 120–144. https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.396.
Landert, Daniela & Gianluca Miscione. 2017. Narrating the stories of leaked data: The changing role of journalists after Wikileaks and Snowden. Discourse, Context & Media 19. 13–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.02.002.
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2015.01.010.
Landert, Daniela. 2015. Reportable facts and a personal touch: The functions of direct quotes in online news. In Jenny Arendholz, Wolfram Bublitz & Monika Kirner-Ludwig (eds.), The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then, 29–52. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110427561-003.
Landert, Daniela. 2014. Blurring the boundaries of mass media communication? Interaction and user-generated content on online news sites. In Jukka Tyrkkö & Sirpa Leppänen (eds.), Texts and Discourses of New Media (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English 15). Helsinki: VARIENG. https://varieng.helsinki.fi/series/volumes/15/landert/.
Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler & Nicole Studer-Joho. 2013. Uncovering layers of meaning in the history of the English language. In Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler & Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.), Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context (Studies in Language Companion Series 148), 1–15. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Landert, Daniela & 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.10.016.
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). http://www.crisaps.org/newsletter/winter2009/Landert.pdf.
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 Conventions in Historical English News Discourse. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 5. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, PA: Benjamins, 2015, xv + 254 pp., € 99.00/$ 149.00. Anglia 135(2). 358–361. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2017-0029.