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Professor Michael Haugh
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Michael Haugh

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Overview

Background

Michael Haugh is Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

His research interests lie primarily in the field of pragmatics, the study of the use of language in context, with a particular focus on studying the role of language in social interaction. He works with recordings and transcriptions of naturally occuring spoken interactions, as well as data from digitally-mediated forms of communication across a number of languages, as he is ultimately interested in the ways in which pragmatic phenomena have their distinct local flavours, both across and within languages and cultures. An area of emerging importance in his view is the role that language corpora and technologies can play in pragmatics and linguistics more broadly. He is currently leading the establishment of the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) (https://www.ldaca.edu.au/) and the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) (https://www.atap.edu.au/), as well as being co-director of the Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) (http://ladal.edu.au).

He has published more than 150 papers and books, including Sociopragmatics of Japanese (2023, Routledge, with Yasuko Obana), Im/Politeness Implicatures (2015, Mouton de Gruyter), Pragmatics and the English Language (2014, Palgrave Macmillan, with Jonathan Culpeper), and Understanding Politeness (2013, Cambridge University Press, with Dániel Z. Kádár). He has also co-edited a number of books and special issues of journals, including Morality in Discourse (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, with Rosina Márquez Reiter), the Sociopragmatics of Emotion (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, with Laura Alba-Juez), Action Ascription in Interaction (2022, Cambridge University Press, with Arnulf Deppermann), the Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics (2021, Cambridge University Press, with Marina Terkourafi and Dániel Z. Kádár), and the Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness (2017, Palgrave Macmillan with Jonathan Culpeper and Dániel Z. Kádár). He was co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-pragmatics/) from 2015-2020, and is currently co-editor of Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics book series (Cambridge University Press, https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/elements/pragmatics).

Availability

Professor Michael Haugh is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Auckland
  • Bachelor of Science, The University of Auckland
  • Masters (Coursework), The University of Auckland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Pragmatics

  • Conversation analysis

  • Humour studies

  • Spoken corpora

  • Intercultural communication

Works

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199 works between 1998 and 2025

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Featured

2022

Book

Action ascription in interaction

Arnulf Deppermann and Michael Haugh eds. (2022). Action ascription in interaction. Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108673419

Action ascription in interaction

Featured

2021

Book

The Cambridge handbook of sociopragmatics

Michael Haugh, Dániel Z. Kádár and Marina Terkourafi eds. (2021). The Cambridge handbook of sociopragmatics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108954105

The Cambridge handbook of sociopragmatics

Featured

2015

Book

Im/Politeness implicatures

Haugh, Michael (2015). Im/Politeness implicatures. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110240078

Im/Politeness implicatures

Featured

2014

Book

Pragmatics and the English language

Culpeper, Jonathan and Haugh, Michael (2014). Pragmatics and the English language. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

Pragmatics and the English language

2025

Conference Publication

Who’s at fault? Online public shaming and the contestation of moral culpability

Chang, Wei-Lin Melody, Haugh, Michael and Su, Hsi-Yao (2025). Who’s at fault? Online public shaming and the contestation of moral culpability. The 19th International Pragmatics Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 22-27 June 2025.

Who’s at fault? Online public shaming and the contestation of moral culpability

2025

Conference Publication

Mutual (mis)understanding in intercultural first conversations

Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2025). Mutual (mis)understanding in intercultural first conversations. The 19th International Pragmatics Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 22-27 June 2025.

Mutual (mis)understanding in intercultural first conversations

2025

Journal Article

Reproducibility and transparency in interpretive corpus pragmatics

Schweinberger, Martin and Haugh, Michael (2025). Reproducibility and transparency in interpretive corpus pragmatics. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. doi: 10.1075/ijcl.23033.sch

Reproducibility and transparency in interpretive corpus pragmatics

2025

Journal Article

Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics: an introduction

Schweinberger, Martin and Haugh, Michael (2025). Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics: an introduction. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 1-11. doi: 10.1075/ijcl.25081.sch

Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics: an introduction

2025

Journal Article

“How is that unparliamentary?”: The metapragmatics of ‘unparliamentary’ language in the Australian Federal Parliament

Hames, Sam, Haugh, Michael and Musgrave, Simon (2025). “How is that unparliamentary?”: The metapragmatics of ‘unparliamentary’ language in the Australian Federal Parliament. Lingua, 320 103932, 103932. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103932

“How is that unparliamentary?”: The metapragmatics of ‘unparliamentary’ language in the Australian Federal Parliament

2025

Conference Publication

The paradoxical role of jocular wordplay in intercultural L1-L2 initial interactions

Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2025). The paradoxical role of jocular wordplay in intercultural L1-L2 initial interactions. Wordplay and Exclusion, Würzburg, Germany/online, 30–31 May 2025.

The paradoxical role of jocular wordplay in intercultural L1-L2 initial interactions

2025

Journal Article

Mobilizing assistance through troubles-complaints in L2 settings

Alshammari, Bandar and Haugh, Michael (2025). Mobilizing assistance through troubles-complaints in L2 settings. Applied Linguistics. doi: 10.1093/applin/amaf019

Mobilizing assistance through troubles-complaints in L2 settings

2025

Conference Publication

Conversational humour and rapport in Australian-Chinese intercultural initial interactions

Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2025). Conversational humour and rapport in Australian-Chinese intercultural initial interactions. 31st Australasian Humour Studies Network, Adelaide, SA Australia, 19-21 February 2025.

Conversational humour and rapport in Australian-Chinese intercultural initial interactions

2025

Journal Article

Book review: Rong Chen, Towards a motivation model of pragmatics (Mouton Series in Pragmatics 27). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvii + 333. ISBN 9783110787580

HAUGH, MICHAEL (2025). Book review: Rong Chen, Towards a motivation model of pragmatics (Mouton Series in Pragmatics 27). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvii + 333. ISBN 9783110787580. English Language and Linguistics. doi: 10.1017/s1360674324000340

Book review: Rong Chen, Towards a motivation model of pragmatics (Mouton Series in Pragmatics 27). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvii + 333. ISBN 9783110787580

2025

Book Chapter

Morality and discourse

Haugh, Michael and Reiter, Rosina Márquez (2025). Morality and discourse. Morality in discourse. (pp. 1-20) edited by Michael Haugh and Rosina Márquez Reiter. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197618066.003.0001

Morality and discourse

2025

Book

Morality in discourse

Michael Haugh and Rosina Márquez Reiter eds. (2025). Morality in discourse. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197618066.001.0001

Morality in discourse

2025

Book Chapter

Negotiating moral responsibility for remedying troubles

Alshammari, Bandar and Haugh, Michael (2025). Negotiating moral responsibility for remedying troubles. Morality in discourse. (pp. 66-94) edited by Michael Haugh and Rosina Márquez-Reiter. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197618066.003.0004

Negotiating moral responsibility for remedying troubles

2024

Journal Article

The role of inference and inferencing in pragmatic models of communication

Elder, Chi-Hé and Haugh, Michael (2024). The role of inference and inferencing in pragmatic models of communication. Journal of Pragmatics, 229, 71-76. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.06.002

The role of inference and inferencing in pragmatic models of communication

2024

Book Chapter

Conversational humour

Haugh, Michael and Priego-Valverde, Béatrice (2024). Conversational humour. De Gruyter handbook of humor studies. (pp. 307-326) edited by Thomas E. Ford, Władysław Chłopicki and Giselinde Kuipers. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110755770-018

Conversational humour

2024

Journal Article

Troubles-complaints and the overall structural organization of troubles-remedy sequences

Alshammari, Bandar and Haugh, Michael (2024). Troubles-complaints and the overall structural organization of troubles-remedy sequences. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 57 (2), 215-234. doi: 10.1080/08351813.2024.2340405

Troubles-complaints and the overall structural organization of troubles-remedy sequences

2024

Book Chapter

Ostensible offers, politeness and sincere hypocrisy

Haugh, Michael (2024). Ostensible offers, politeness and sincere hypocrisy. The pragmatics of hypocrisy. (pp. 162-186) Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/pbns.343.07hau

Ostensible offers, politeness and sincere hypocrisy

Funding

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2028
    Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA-RDC)
    Australian Research Data Commons Limited
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2026
    Offence and online public shaming in Taiwan
    Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2023
    Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA): Community Connect (DP768A)
    Australian Research Data Commons Limited
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2024
    Language Data Commons of Australia HASS RDC (LDaCA-RDC)
    ARDC - Australian Data Partnerships
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    Australian Text Analytics Platform
    ARDC - Australian Data Partnerships
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA-DP)
    ARDC - Australian Data Partnerships
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Overcoming pinch-points in ingesting, cataloguing and accessing (meta) data for the development of a national language data commons (Australian Research Data Commons grant)
    Monash University
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2019
    Humor in Taiwan
    Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Conversational humour in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) workplaces

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Valeria Sinkeviciute

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The establishment and management of interpersonal relationships in early encounters between Australian and Japanese language exchange partners

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Valeria Sinkeviciute

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Towards a (micro)theory of conversational humour: The interactional accomplishment of incongruity

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Valeria Sinkeviciute

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Table talk: Floor and focus in sustained multiparty interaction

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Ilana Mushin

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Emerging intercultural communication styles among Japanese and Australian entrepreneurs

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Melody Chang

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Supervisor-initiated advice-giving activities in PhD supervision meetings

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Ilana Mushin

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Negotiation of identity construction and action ascription during collaborative activities: A study of casual and institutional cooking interactions

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Valeria Sinkeviciute

Completed supervision

Media

Enquiries

Contact Professor Michael Haugh directly for media enquiries about:

  • intention
  • intercultural communication
  • offence
  • politeness

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