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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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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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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2020

Claridge, Claudia & Kyt?, Merja (2020). 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, 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). 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 (2020). 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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2018

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). 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). 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

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). 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). 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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Claridge, Claudia & Arnovick, Leslie (2010). Pragmaticalisation and Discursisation. In Andreas H. Jucker & Irma Taavitsainen (Eds.), Historical Pragmatics (pp. 165-192). Berlin u.a.: de Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214284.3.165
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Claridge, Claudia & Mindt, Ilka (2010). Spoken English through the centuries : Introduction. In J?rg Helbig & R. Schallegger (Eds.), Proceedings : Anglistentag 2009 Klagenfurt (pp. 3-8). Trier: WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier.
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2009

Claridge, Claudia (2009). ‘As Silly as an Irish Teague’: Comparisons in News Discourse. In Andreas H. Jucker (Ed.), Early modern English news discourse : newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse ; [Conference on Historical Discourse (CHINED), ... Kartause Ittingen (Switzerland), on August 31 and September 1, 2007] (pp. 91-114). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co..
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2008

Claridge, Claudia (2008). Historical Corpora. In Anke Lüdeling & Merja Kyt? (Eds.), Corpus linguistics : an international handbook ; volume 1 (pp. 242-259). Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter.
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2007

Claridge, Claudia (2007). Conditionals in Early Modern English texts. In Ursula Lenker & Anneli Meurman-Solin (Eds.), Connectives in the History of English (pp. 229-254). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.283.12cla
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Claridge, Claudia (2007). Constructing a Corpus from the Web: Message Boards. In Marianne Hundt, Nadja Nesselhauf, & Carolin Biewer (Eds.), Corpus linguistics and the web (pp. 87-108). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Rodopi.
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Claridge, Claudia (2007). The Superlative in Spoken English. In Roberta Facchinetti (Ed.), Corpus linguistics 25 years on (pp. 121-148). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Rodopi.
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2006

Claridge, Claudia (2006). Comparison in Nineteenth-Century Non-Fictional Prose. In Christoph Houswitschka, Gabriele Knappe, & Anja Müller (Eds.), Proceedings : Anglistentag 2005 Bamberg (pp. 501-514). Trier: WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier.
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Claridge, Claudia (2006). ‘With the Most Superlative Felicitee’: Functions of the Superlative in 19th-Century English. In Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Dieter Kastovsky, & Nikolaus Ritt (Eds.), Syntax, style and grammatical norms : English from 1500 - 2000 (pp. 73-89). Bern [u.a.]: Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0351-0272-7
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2005

Claridge, Claudia (2005). Questions in Early Modern English pamphlets. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 6(1), 133-168. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.6.1.07cla
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2002

Claridge, Claudia & Wilson, Andrew (2002). Style evolution in the English sermon. In Teresa Fanego, Belén Méndez-Naya, & Elena Seoane (Eds.), Sounds, Words, Texts and Change : Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000 ; Volume 2 (pp. 25-44). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.224.05cla
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Claridge, Claudia (2002). Translating Phrasal Verbs. In Bernhard Kettemann & Georg Marko (Eds.), Teaching and Learning by Doing Corpus Analysis : Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora, Graz 19-24 July, 2000 (pp. 361-373). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Rodopi.
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2001

Claridge, Claudia (2001). Approaching Irony in Corpora. UCREL Technical Papers, 13, 134-143.
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Claridge, Claudia & Walker, Terry (2001). Causal clauses in written and speech-related genres in Early Modern English. ICAME Journal, 25, 31-64.
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Claridge, Claudia (2001). ICAME Conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, 16-20 May 2001. ICAME Journal, 25, 147-150.
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Claridge, Claudia (2001). Sprache und Kommunikation in der Science Fiction. Fremdsprachenunterricht, 1, 57-62.
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Claridge, Claudia (2001). Structuring Text : Discourse Deixis in Early Modern English Texts. Journal of English Linguistics, 29(1), 55-71. https://doi.org/10.1177/00754240122005198
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2000

Burnard, Lou, Claridge, Claudia, Schmied, Josef, & Siemund, Rainer (2000). Encoding the Lampeter Corpus. In Marilyn Deegan, Jean Anderson, & Harold Short (Eds.), DRH98 : selected papers from DRH98, Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference, 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Glasgow, September 1998 (pp. 29-42). London: Office for Humanities Communication.
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Claridge, Claudia (2000). Multi-word verbs in early modern English : a corpus based study. Amsterdam [u.a.]: Rodopi.
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Claridge, Claudia (2000). Pamphlets and Early Newspapers: Political Interaction vs News Reporting. In Friedrich Ungerer (Ed.), English media texts, past and present : language and textual structure (pp. 25-43). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Benjamins.
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Claridge, Claudia (2000). The 20th ICAME Conference in Freiburg, Germany (26-30 May 1999). ICAME Journal, 24, 147-150.
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1998

(1998). The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts. Josef Schmied, Claudia Claridge, & Rainer Siemund (Hrsg.), Chemnitz: REAL Centre, Chemnitz 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Technology.
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1997

Claridge, Claudia (1997). A century in the life of multi-word verbs. In Magnus Ljung (Ed.), Corpus-based studies in English : papers from the Seventeenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 17) ; Stockholm, May 15-19, 1996 (pp. 69-85). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Rodopi.
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Schmied, Josef & Claridge, Claudia (1997). Classifying text- or genre-variation in the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Texts. In Raymond Hickey, Merja Kyt?, Ian Lancashire, & Matti Rissanen (Eds.), Tracing the trail of time : proceedings from the Second Diachronic Corpora Workshop ; New College, 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Toronto, Toronto, May 1995 (pp. 119-135). Amsterdam [u.a.]: Rodopi.
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Siemund, Rainer & Claridge, Claudia (1997). The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts. ICAME Journal, 21, 61-70.
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