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:	Universitätsstraße 10, 86159 Augsburg

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Curriculum Vitae

since 2015	Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Augsburg
2007 - 2015	Full Professor at the University 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 University of Kiel
1999 - 2003	Junior Lecturer (C1) at the University of Greifswald
1999	Ph.D., University of Chemnitz (Thesis: Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English)
1994 - 1999	Research Assistant at Chemnitz University 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 University, Bamberg: M.A. in English Linguistics, English & American Literature and Medieval 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 University 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, Neuchâtel

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 Medii Aevi Digitale – Mediävistisches Fachrepositorium und Wissenschaftsblog (AMAD)“
tenure (or similar) processes: University of Helsinki, University 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, University of Osnabrück (2010)

Doctoral matters – (inter)national:

Faculty Examiner at the University Uppsala
External Reviewer at the University of Helsinki
Grant assessment for the University 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, & Kytö, 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 & Kytö, 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, & Kytö, 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 Säily: 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 Medieval 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 : Beiträge 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. Bös & 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 : Beiträge 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 University 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 Tyrkkö (Eds.), Principles and Practices for the Digital Editing and Annotation of Diachronic Data Helsinki: Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG), University 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 Kytö (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 University 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), University 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 Schröder, 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. Hegedűs & 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 University 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 & Kytö, 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 Jörg 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 Kytö (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, University 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 University 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 Kytö, Ian Lancashire, & Matti Rissanen (Eds.), Tracing the trail of time : proceedings from the Second Diachronic Corpora Workshop ; New College, University 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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