Prof. Dr. Claudia Claridge

Chair

English Linguistics

Phone:	+49 821 598 - 2758
Email:	claudia.claridge@philhist.uni-augsburgphilhist.uni-augsburg.de ()
Room:	4047 (D)
Address:	Universit?tsstra?e 10, 86159 Augsburg

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Curriculum Vitae

since 2015	Professor of English Linguistics at the 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg
2007 - 2015	Full Professor at the 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Duisburg-Essen 2011 - 2015 Dean of Studies, Faculty of Humanities 2011 - 2012?Member of the assessment team of the Wissenschaftsrat zum ? Forschungsrating im Bereich Anglistik / Amerikanistik: ? Ergebnisbericht (pdf) 2013 - 2015 Member of Steuerungsgruppe ?Systemakkreditierung“
2003 - 2007	Junior Professor at the Christian-Albrechts 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Kiel
1999 - 2003	Junior Lecturer (C1) at the 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Greifswald
1999	Ph.D., 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Chemnitz (Thesis: Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English)
1994 - 1999	Research Assistant at Chemnitz 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Technology - DFG-funded project "Compilation of an Early Modern English Pamphlet Corpus" (Lampeter Corpus)
1992 - 1994	In-school teacher training course at various Grammar Schools (Second State Exam)
1985 - 1992	Otto-Friedrich 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏, Bamberg: M.A. in English Linguistics, English & American Literature and 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏ieval History; Teacher Training degree in English and History (First State Exam)

Research interests

History of English:

- Early and Late Modern English
- Language change
- Intensifiers
- Phraseology

Pragmatics

- Figurative language
- Pragmatics markers
- Historical Pragmatics

Text and Discourse Studies

- Genre evolution
- News discourse
- Development of history writing
- Rhetorical analysis
- Corpus Linguistics

Academic community activities

Member of the Editorial Board

ICAME Journal

Peer reviewing

Monographs / collected volumes: Benjamins, Cambridge 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Press, Mouton de Gruyter
Journals: English Language and Linguistics, Discourse Processees, Journal of English Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Journal of Historical Linguistics, Studia Neophilologia, Text & Talk, Token
Conferences (scientific committees): Conference of Historical English News Discourse IV, Helsinki (2014); International Conference of English Historical Linguistics 18, Leuven (2014); International Conference of English Historical Linguistics 20, Edinburgh (2018);?ICAME 40, Neuch?tel

Projects and positions reviewing:

projects / grant-given institutions: British Academy, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Member of the Beirat for the DFG-funded project ?Archivum 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏ii Aevi Digitale – 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏i?vistisches Fachrepositorium und Wissenschaftsblog (AMAD)“
tenure (or similar) processes: 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Helsinki, 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Kansas

Institutional evaluations

Member of the assessment team of the Wissenschaftsrat zum Forschungsrating im Bereich Anglistik / Amerikanistik (2011/12)
Member of the assessment team for the Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen: Evaluation of the Faculty of Language and Literature, 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Osnabrück (2010)

Doctoral matters – (inter)national:

Faculty Examiner at the 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Uppsala
External Reviewer at the 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Helsinki
Grant assessment for the 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Vienna
Member of the jury for the Ph.D. Prize of the Anglistenverband (2015)

Publications

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2025

Claridge, Claudia (in press). Corpus linguistics and historical pragmatics. In Reference module in social sciences Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-95504-1.00464-6
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Claridge, Claudia (2025). Introduction. In Claudia Claridge (Ed.), News with an attitude: ideological perspectives in the historical press (pp. 1-9). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Claridge, Claudia (Ed.). (2025). News with an attitude: ideological perspectives in the historical press. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.105
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Claridge, Claudia (2025). Representing Ireland and the Irish in the 17th- and 18th-century English press. In Claudia Claridge (Ed.), News with an attitude: ideological perspectives in the historical press (pp. 33-55). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.105.03cla
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Claridge, Claudia (2025). That's the understatement of the century: understatement as a meta-rhetorical expression in the Corpus of American Soap Operas. Journal of Pragmatics, 235, 75-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2024.11.002
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Claridge, Claudia (2025). The reader in the text across time and genres. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 34(2), 107-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470251327532
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2024

Bowie, David & Claridge, Claudia (2024). Editors' note. Journal of English Linguistics, 52(2), 107-108. https://doi.org/10.1177/00754242241259056
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Claridge, Claudia, Jonsson, Ewa, & Kyt?, Merja (2024). Intensifiers in Late Modern English: a sociopragmatic approach to courtroom discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108560627
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Claridge, Claudia (2024). Researching understatement in the history of English. In Luisella Caon, Moragh S. Gordon, & Thijs Porck (Eds.), Unlocking the history of English: pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types (pp. 10-32). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.364.01cla
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2021

Claridge, Claudia, Jonsson, Ewa, & Kyt?, Merja (2021). A little something goes a long way: "little" in the Old Bailey corpus. Journal of English Linguistics, 49(1), 89-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424220982063
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Claridge, Claudia (2021). Book Review: Carey McIntosh: Semantics and cultural change in the British enlightenment: new words and old. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 315. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Journal of British Studies, 60(4), 999-1000. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2021.104
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Claridge, Claudia & Kyt?, Merja (2021). Degree and related phenomena in the history of English: evidence of usage and pathways of change. Journal of English Linguistics, 9(1), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424220969778
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Claridge, Claudia (2021). Discourse representation in early modern English historiography. In Peter J. Grund & Terry Walker (Eds.), Speech representation in the history of English: topics and approaches (pp. 212-238). Oxford: Oxford 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190918064.003.0009
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Claridge, Claudia (2021). Murder in the press: representations of Old Bailey murder trials in newspapers. Nicholas Brownlees (Ed.), The role of context in the production and reception of historical news discourse(pp. 107-127). Bern: Peter Lang.
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Claridge, Claudia (2021). Rezension: Rodríguez-Puente, Paula: The English phrasal verb, 1650–present: history, stylistic drifts, and lexicalisation (Studies in English Language). Cambridge, 2019. English Language and Linguistics, 25(2), 413-418. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674320000027
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2020

Claridge, Claudia, Jonsson, Ewa, & Kyt?, Merja (2020). Entirely innocent: a historical sociopragmatic analysis of maximizers in the Old Bailey Corpus. English Language and Linguistics, 24(4), 855-874. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1360674319000388
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Claridge, Claudia (2020). Epistemic adverbs in the 'Old Bailey Corpus'. In Ewa Jonsson & Tove Larsson (Eds.), Voices past and present – studies of involved, speech-related and spoken texts (pp. 133-171). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.97.09cla
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Claridge, Claudia (2020). Exclamations marks then and now: Early Modern and present-day textual functions. In Claudia Claridge & Merja Kyt? (Eds.), Punctuation in context - past and present perspectives (pp. 201-225). Berlin: Peter Lang.
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Claridge, Claudia (2020). Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja S?ily: patterns of change in eighteenth-century English. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 6(1), 20190003. https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2019-0003
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Claridge, Claudia & Kyt?, Merja (Eds.). (2020). Punctuation in context - past and present perspectives. Berlin: Peter Lang.
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Claridge, Claudia (2020). Reflections on visuality and textual reception. In Caroline Tagg & Mel Evans (Eds.), Message and medium: English language practices across old and new media (pp. 253-256). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110670837-017
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Claridge, Claudia & Wagner, Sebastian (2020). The footnote in Late Modern English historiographical writing. In Matti Peikola & Birte B?s (Eds.), The dynamics of text and framing phenomena: historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English (pp. 63-90). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.317.03cla
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2019

Claridge, Claudia & Kyt?, Merja (2019). 'A (great) deal of': developments in 19th-century British and Australian English. In Sandra Jansen & Lucia Siebers (Eds.), Processes of change: studies in Late Modern and present-day English (pp. 49-71). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.21.04cla
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Claridge, Claudia (2019). Drinking and crime: negotiating intoxication in courtroom discourse, 1720 to 1913. In Teresa Fanego & Paula Rodríguez-Puente (Eds.), Corpus-based research on variation in English legal discourse (pp. 261-286). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.91.11cla
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B?s, Birte & Claridge, Claudia (Eds.). (2019). Norms and conventions in the history of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.347
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2018

Claridge, Claudia (2018). Lying, metaphor, and hyperbole. In J?rg Meibauer (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of lying (pp. 370-381). Oxford: Oxford 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198736578.013.28
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Claridge, Claudia (2018). Now in the historical courtroom: users and functions. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 19(2), 223-242. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00020.cla
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2017

Claridge, Claudia (2017). Approaching Historical Phraseology : Patterns and Contexts. Anglistik, 28(1), 13-30.
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Claridge, Claudia (2017). Book Review: Plag et al., Introduction to English linguistics. Anglistik, 28(1), 155-156.
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Claridge, Claudia (2017). Chapter 8 : The Poor Man’s Guardian ; the linguistic construction of social groups and their relations. In M. Palander-Collin, M. Ratia, & I. Taavitsainen (Eds.), Diachronic developments in English news discourse (pp. 137-155). https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.6.08cla
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Claridge, Claudia (2017). Discourse-based approaches. In Laurel J. Brinton (Ed.), English historical linguistics: approaches and perspectives (pp. 185-217). Cambridge: Cambridge 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316286562.008
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Claridge, Claudia (2017). Voices in 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏ieval History Writing. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 16(1), 7-40.
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2015

Brakensiek, Stefan & Claridge, Claudia (Eds.). (2015). Fiasko - Scheitern in der Frühen Neuzeit : Beitr?ge zur Kulturgeschichte des Misserfolgs. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839427828
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Claridge, Claudia (2015). News in space and time. In B. B?s & L. Kornexl (Eds.), Changing genre conventions in historical English news discourse (pp. 55-80). https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.5.03cla
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Claridge, Claudia & Wischer, Ilse (2015). Perspectives on the 18th Century: Introduction. In Rainer Emig & Jana Gohrisch (Eds.), Proceedings : Anglistentag 2014 Hannover (pp. 3-6). Trier: WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier.
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Claridge, Claudia (2015). The Darién Scheme : failure and its treatment in the press. In Stefan Brakensiek & Claudia Claridge (Eds.), Fiasko - Scheitern in der Frühen Neuzeit : Beitr?ge zur Kulturgeschichte des Misserfolgs (pp. 59-84). https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839427828-004
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2014

Claridge, Claudia & Kyt?, Merja (2014). 'You are a bit of a sneak': exploring a degree modifier in the Old Bailey Corpus. In Marianne Hundt (Ed.), Late Modern English syntax (pp. 239-268). Cambridge: Cambridge 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139507226.018
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Claridge, Claudia (2014). Book Review: Dossena, Marina & Gabriella del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), "Letter writing in Late Modern Europe". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 19(3), 431-435. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.19.3.06cla
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Claridge, Claudia (2014). Book Review: Schubert, Christoph: "Englische Textlinguistik. Eine Einführung". Anglistik, 25(1), 228-230.
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Taavitsainen, Irma, Kyto, Merja, Claridge, Claudia, & Smith, Jeremy (Eds.). (2014). Developments in English : Expanding Electronic Evidence. Cambridge: Cambridge 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139833882
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Claridge, Claudia (2014). George Herbert’s The Temple: Positioning the Speaker. In Silvia Mergenthal & Reingard M. Nischik (Eds.), Proceedings : Anglistentag 2013 Konstanz (pp. 249-260). Trier: WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier.
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2013

Claridge, Claudia (2013). Book Review: Roberta Facchinetti, Nicholas Brownlees, Birte B?s & Udo Fries, "News as Changing Texts: Corpora, Methodologies and Analysis". Anglia, 131(1), 141-145. https://doi.org/10.1515/anglia-2013-0008
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Claridge, Claudia (2013). From page to screen: The relevance of encoded visual features in the Lampeter Corpus. In Anneli Meurman-Solin & Jukka Tyrkk? (Eds.), Principles and Practices for the Digital Editing and Annotation of Diachronic Data Helsinki: Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG), 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Helsinki.
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Claridge, Claudia (2013). The evolution of three pragmatic markers: As it were, so to speak/say and if you like. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 14(2), 161-184. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.14.2.01cla
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2012

Claridge, Claudia (2012). "Upon These Heads I Shall Discourse": Lexicographical and Corpus Evidence for Senses and Phrases. In Merja Kyt? (Ed.), English corpus linguistics : crossing paths (pp. 133-164). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Rodopi.
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Claridge, Claudia (2012). From manuscript to printing: Transformations of genres in the history of English. In Terttu Nevalainen & Elisabeth Closs Traugott (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of English (pp. 304-313). Oxford: Oxford 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199922765.013.0027
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Claridge, Claudia (2012). Of fox-sized mice and a thousand men: Hyperbole in Old English. In Carla Suhr & Irma Taavitsainen (Eds.), Developing Corpus Methodology for Historical Pragmatics Helsinki: Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG), 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Helsinki.
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Claridge, Claudia (2012). Registers, Genres and the Standard : Some Thoughts on the Corpuslinguistic Documentation of the 18th Century. In Anne Schr?der, U. Busse, & R. Schneider (Eds.), Codification, canons and curricula : description and prescription in language and literature (pp. 79-92). Bielefeld: Aisthesis-Verl..
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Claridge, Claudia (2012). Styles, registers, genres, text types. In Alexander Bergs & Laurel J. Brinton (Eds.), English historical linguistics : an international handbook ; volume 1 (pp. 237-253). Berlin u.a.: de Gruyter Mouton.
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Claridge, Claudia (2012). The origins of how come and what … for. In I. Heged?s & A. Fodor (Eds.), English Historical Linguistics 2010 : Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010 (pp. 177-196). https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.325.08cla
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2011

Claridge, Claudia (2011). Hyperbole in English : a corpus-based study of exaggeration. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Press.
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Claridge, Claudia, Gurr, Jens Martin, & Vanderbeke, Dirk (2011). Language, Literature and Culture in the 17th century : Introduction. In Joachim Frenk & Lena Steveker (Eds.), Proceedings : Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken (pp. 221-226). Trier: WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier.
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2010

Claridge, Claudia (2010). Book Review: Pfenninger, Simone: "Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions: A Corpus-based Study". ICAME Journal, 34, 281-285.
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Claridge, Claudia (2010). News discourse. In Andreas H. Jucker & Irma Taavitsainen (Eds.), Historical Pragmatics (pp. 587-620). Berlin u.a.: de Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214284.7.587
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Claridge, Claudia & Kyt?, Merja (2010). Non-standard language in earlier English. In R. Hickey (Ed.), Varieties of English in Writing : The written word as linguistic evidence (pp. 15-42). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g41.02cla
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