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Michael Haugh is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research broadly spans the fields of Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Social Sciences, with a notable emphasis on Language and Linguistics as well as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. The subfields closely associated with their work include Literature and Literary Theory, Artificial Intelligence, and Communication.

The scholar's primary research topics cover Language, Discourse, and Communication Strategies; Language, Metaphor, and Cognition; and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies. They have also contributed to studies on Swearing, Euphemism, and Multilingualism, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Humor Studies and Applications, and Multilingual Education and Policy.

Michael Haugh has published articles in several recurrent academic venues, such as:

  • Journal of Pragmatics
  • Language & Communication
  • Journal of Politeness Research
  • Lingua
  • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael Haugh are:

  • The pragmatics of initial interactions: Cross-cultural and intercultural perspectives, 2021, Journal of Pragmatics
  • (Online) public denunciation, public incivilities and offence, 2022, Language & Communication

Other notable recent papers in their broader research domain include:

  • The metalinguistics of offence in (British) English, 2020, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
  • Analysing discourse around COVID-19 in the Australian Twittersphere: A real-time corpus-based analysis, 2021, Big Data & Society
  • Jocular flattery in Chinese multi-party instant messaging interactions, 2021, Journal of Pragmatics

Michael Haugh frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Dániel Z. Kádár
  • Wei-Lin Melody Chang
  • Marina Terkourafi
  • Martin Schweinberger
  • Amir Sheikhan

Best Publications

  • The discursive challenge to politeness research: An interactional alternative

    Michael Bevan Haugh

  • Understanding Politeness by Dániel Z. Kádár

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  • Pragmatics and the English Language

    Jonathan Culpeper;Michael Haugh

  • Im/Politeness Implicatures

    Michael Haugh

  • Jocular mockery, (dis)affiliation, and face

    Michael Bevan Haugh

  • Mock impoliteness, jocular mockery and jocular abuse in Australian and British English

    Michael Bevan Haugh;Derek Bousfield

  • Im/politeness, social practice and the participation order

    Michael Bevan Haugh

  • Face in interaction

    Michael Bevan Haugh;Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness

    Jonathan Culpeper;Michael Haugh;Dániel Z. Kádár

  • A metalinguistic approach to deconstructing the concepts of ‘face’ and ‘politeness’ in Chinese, English and Japanese

    Michael Bevan Haugh;Carl Hinze

  • When is an email really offensive?: Argumentativity and variability in evaluations of impoliteness

    Michael Bevan Haugh

  • Emic conceptualisations of (im)politeness and face in Japanese: Implications for the discursive negotiation of second language learner identities

    Michael Bevan Haugh

  • The co-constitution of politeness implicature in conversation

    Michael Bevan Haugh

  • Intention in pragmatics

    Michael Bevan Haugh

  • Jocular Mockery as Interactional Practice in Everyday Anglo-Australian Conversation

    Michael Bevan Haugh

  • The Cambridge handbook of sociopragmatics

    Michael Haugh;Dániel Z. Kádár;Marina Terkourafi

  • Interpersonal pragmatics: Issues and debates

    Michael Bevan Haugh;Dániel Z. Kádár;Sara Mills

  • Speaker intentions and intentionality

    Michael Bevan Haugh;Kasia M. Jaszczolt

  • Impoliteness and taking offence in initial interactions

    Michael Haugh

  • Anticipated versus inferred politeness

    Michael Bevan Haugh

  • Revisiting the conceptualisation of politeness in English and Japanese

    Michael Haugh

  • The importance of "place" in Japanese politeness: Implications for cross-cultural and intercultural analyses

    Michael Bevan Haugh

  • Epilogue: the first-second order distinction in face and politeness research

    Michael Bevan Haugh

  • Face, communication and social interaction

    Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini;Michael Haugh

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Culpeper
Jonathan Culpeper Lancaster University
Anthony J. Liddicoat
Anthony J. Liddicoat University of Warwick

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