Locher, Miriam A.
2004 Power and Politeness in Action: Disagreements in Oral Communication. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (listed for the 2005 BAAL Book Prize)

Locher, Miriam A.
2006 Advice Online. Advice-giving in an American Internet Health Column. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)

 

Bousfield, Derek and Miriam A. Locher
2008 Impoliteness in Language. Studies on its Interplay with Power in Theory and Practice. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.


Locher, Miriam A. and Jürg Strässler
2008 Standards and Norms in the English Language. Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 95. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.



Locher, Miriam A. and Sage Lambert Graham
in prep. Interpersonal Pragmatics. The Handbooks of Pragmatics, Volume 6. Mouton de Gruyter.

Locher, Miriam A. (guest editor)
in prep. Special issue: Politeness and impoliteness in computer-mediated communication in Journal of Politeness Research, 2010

 

PAPERS, single authored


Locher, Miriam A.
2008 "Relational work, politeness and identity construction." In Gerd Antos, Eija Ventola and Tilo Weber (eds.), Handbooks of Applied Linguistics. Interpersonal Communication. Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 509-540.

Locher, Miriam A.
2008 "The rise of prescriptive grammars in the 18th century." In Miriam A. Locher and Jürg Strässler (eds.), Standards and Norms in the English Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 127-147.

Locher, Miriam A.
2006a “Polite behavior within relational work: The discursive approach to politeness.” Multilingua 25.3, 249-267.

Locher, Miriam A.
2006b “The discursive approach to polite behaviour. A response to Glick.” Language in Society 35.5, 733-735.

Locher, Miriam A.
2004 “'You better keep quiet Steven. We're going to have a war.' The exercise of power in a sociable argument among family members and friends." In Stojan Bračič, Darko Čuden, Saša Podgoršek and Vladimir Pogačnik (eds.), Linguistic Studies in the European Year of Languages. Proceedings of the 36th Linguistic Symposium in Ljubljana 2001. Bern: Peter Lang, 379-389.

Locher, Miriam A.
under review "Internet advice." In Susan Herring, Dieter Stein and Tuija Virtanen (eds.), The Handbook of the Pragmatics of Computer-mediated Communication. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Locher, Miriam A.
under review "Situated impoliteness: The interface between relational work and identity construction." In Bethan Davies and Andrew John Merrison (eds.), Situated Politeness.



PAPERS, collaborations

Duman, Steve and Miriam A. Locher
2008 "'So let's talk. Let's chat. Let's start a dialogue': An analysis of the conversation metaphor employed in Clinton's and Obama's YouTube campaign clips." Multilingua 27, 193–230.

Locher, Miriam A. and Jürg Strässler
2008 "Introduction: Standards and norms." In Miriam A. Locher and Jürg Strässler (eds.), Standards and Norms in the English Language. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-20.

Locher, Miriam A. and Derek Bousfield
2008 "Impoliteness and power in language." In Bousfield, Derek and Locher, Miriam A. (eds.), Impoliteness in Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-13.

Locher, Miriam A. and Sebastian Hoffmann
2006 "Constructing the identity of an advice-giver in an American Internet advice column." Text and Talk 26.1, 67-104.

Locher, Miriam A. and Richard J. Watts
2008 "Relational work and impoliteness: negotiating norms of linguistic behaviour." In Bousfield, Derek and Locher, Miriam A. (eds.), Impoliteness in Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 77-99.

Locher, Miriam A. and Richard J. Watts
2005 "Politeness theory and relational work." Journal of Politeness Research 1.1, 9-33.


Locher, Miriam A. and Andreas Langlotz
under review Relational work: At the intersection of cognition, interaction and emotion. Bulletin vals-asla.


REVIEW

Locher, Miriam A.
2004 "Review of Janet Holmes and Maria Stubbe. Power and Politeness in the Workplace." Journal of Sociolinguistics 8.4, 616-620.



CONFERENCE REPORT

Locher, Miriam A.
2002 "Das 36. Linguistische Kolloquium. Ljubljana, 12. bis 14. September 2001." Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 30.1, 126-128.