Griffith University

B Arts, BSc, PhD

Associate Professor

Contact details for Associate Professor Michael Haugh

Research expertise

• Pragmatics
• Sociolinguistics
• Conversation analysis
• Intercultural communication

Current teaching areas

• Pragmatics
• Intercultural English
• Conversation and discourse analysis
• English as an international language

Publications

Books

• Forthcoming (with D. Kádár) Understanding Politeness, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Forthcoming (with J. Culpeper) Pragmatics and the English Language, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
• Forthcoming (with D. Kádár) Politeness in China and Japan, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
• Forthcoming Revisiting Communicative Competence: Investigating Japanese Evaluations of non-Native Speech, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle upon Tyne.
• 2011 (with B.Davies and A. Merrison) (eds.) Situated Politeness, Continuum, London.
• 2009 (with F. Bargiela-Chiappini) (eds.) Face, Communication and Social Interaction, Equinox, London.
• 2009 (with K. Burridge, P. Peters and J. Mulder) (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the HSCNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Sommerville, MA. Available online.

Edited journal special issues

• 2012 (with K. P. Schneider) (eds.) Im/politeness across Englishes, Special issue of Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 44, issue 9 (pp.1017-1133), Elsevier, Amsterdam.
• 2010 (with F. Bargiela-Chiappini) (eds.) Face in interaction, Special issue of Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 42, issue 8 (pp. 2073-2171), Elsevier, Amsterdam.
• 2009 (with A Liddicoat) (eds.) Conceptualizing communication, Special issue of Australian Journal of Linguistics vol.28, issue 3 (pp 1-167), Routledge, London.
• 2008 (ed.) Intention in pragmatics, Special issue of Intercultural Pragmatics vol.5, issue 2 (pp99-260), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.

Book Chapters

• Forthcoming. Implicature Inference and Cancellability, In Alessandro Capone, Franco Lo Piparo and Marco Carapezza (eds.), Perspectives on Pragmatics and Philosophy, Springer, New York.
• Forthcoming (with W. Chang) Collaborative creation of spoken language corpora. In Tim Greer, Yuriko Kite and Donna Tatsuki (eds.), Pragmatics and Language Learning Volume 13, National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu.
• 2013 (with W. Chang) Face in Taiwanese business interaction from emic concepts to emic practices. In Yuling Pan and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.) Chinese Discourse and Interaction Theory and Practice (pp.127-151) Equinox, London.
• 2012 Conventional interaction. In K. M. Jaszczolt and Keith Allan (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (pp.251-274), Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Available online.
• 2012 (with K. M. Jaszczolt) Speaker intentions and intentionality. In K. M. Jaszczolt and Keith Allan (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (pp.87-112), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Available online.
• 2011 Intention(ality) and the conceptualization of communication in pragmatics. In Robert Dale, Denis Burnham and Catherine J. Stevens (eds.), Human Communication Science: A Compendium (pp.29-49), ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science, Sydney.
• 2011 Practice and defaults in interpreting disjunction. In K. M. Jaszczolt and Keith Allan (eds.) Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing (pp.193-230), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
• 2011 (with Y. Obana) Politeness in Japan, In Dániel Z. Kádár and Sara Mills (eds.), Politeness in East Asia, (pp.147-175), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Available online.
• 2011 Epilogue: Culture and norms in politeness research, In Dániel Z. Kádár and Sara Mills (eds.), Politeness in East Asia (pp. 252-264), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Available online.
• 2011 Humour, face and im/politeness in getting acquainted. In Bethan Davies, Michael Haugh and Andrew Merrison (eds.), Situated Politeness (pp. 165-184), Continuum, London. Available online.
• 2011 Situating politeness (with B. Davies and A. Merrison). In Bethan Davies, Michael Haugh and Andrew Merrison (eds.), Situated Politeness (pp. 1-23), Continuum, London. Available online.
• 2011 Epilogue (with B. Davies and A. Merrison). In Bethan Davies, Michael Haugh and Andrew Merrison (eds.) Situated Politeness (pp 270-277), Continuum, London. Available online.
• 2010 Co-construction in interaction. In E. Neméth and K. Bibok (eds.), The Role of Data at the Semantic-Pragmatics Interface (pp. 349-380), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
• 2010 Intercultural impoliteness and the micro-macro issue, In Anna Trosborg (ed.), Pragmatics Across Languages and Cultures (pp. 139-166), (Vol. 7, Handbook of Pragmatics), Mouton de Grutyer, Berlin.
• 2010 Respect and deference. In Miriam Locher and Sage Lambert Graham (eds.), Interpersonal Pragmatics (Vol. 6, Handbook of Pragmatics), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
• 2009 Face and interaction, In Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Michael Haugh (eds.), Face, Communication and Social Interaction (pp. 1-30), Equinox, London.
• 2009 (with Y Watanabe) Analysing Japanese face-in-interaction: insights from intercultural business meetings, In Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Michael Haugh (eds.), Face, Communication and Social Interaction (pp. 78-95), Equinox, London.
• 2008 The place of intention in the interactional achievement of implicature, In Istvan Kecskes and Jacob Mey (eds.), Intention, Common Ground and the Egocentric Speaker-Hearer (pp, 45-48), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
• 2005 What does 'face' mean to the Japanese? Understanding the import of 'face' in Japanese business interactions, In Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Maurizo Gotti (eds.) Asian Business Discourse(s) (pp.211-239), Peter Lang, Berlin. Available online.

Journal articles

• Forthcoming (with D. Kádár and W. Chang) Aggression and perceived national face threats in Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese CMC discussion boards. Multilingua 32, 3.
• Forthcoming (with W. Chang) Understanding (Im)politeness across cultures: an interactional approach to raising sociopragmatic awareness. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics.
• Forthcoming (with W. Chang and D. Kádár) "Doing deference": Identities and relational practices in Chinese online discussion boards. Language@Internet.
• In press Speaker meaning and accountability in interaction. Special issue on "Focus on the speaker", Journal of Pragmatics.
• In press (with P. Humphreys, R. Michael, I. Walkinshaw, B. Fenton-Smith and A. Lobo) Tracking international students' English proficiency over the first semester of undergraduate study. IELTS Research Reports. 14.
• In press (with R. Simpson and S. Eisenchlas) The function of self initiated self repair in the Chinese second language classroom. International Journal of Applied Linguistics.
• In press Disentangling face, facework and im/politeness. Sociocultural Pragmatics.
• 2012 (with K. P. Shneider) Im/politeness across Englishes. Journal of Pragmatics 44, 9: 1017-1021.
• 2012 (with A. Merrison, B. Davies and J. Wilson) Getting stuff done: Comparing 'e-mail requests' from students in higher education in Britain and Australia. Journal of Pragmatics 44, 9: 1077-1098. Available online.
• 2012 (with D. Bousfield) Mock impoliteness, jocular mockery and jocular abuse in Australian and British English. Journal of Pragmatics 44, 9: 1099-1114. Available online.
• 2012 On understandings of intention: a response to Wedgwood. Intercultural Pragmatics 9, 2: 161-194.
• 2012 Epilogue: Deconstructing the first-second order distinction in face and politeness research. Special issue on "Chinese face and im/politeness", Journal of Politeness Research 8, 1: 111-134.
• 2011 (with W. Chang) Strategic embarrassment and face threatening in business interactions. Journal of Pragmatics 43, 12: 2948-2963. Available online.
• 2011 (with W. Chang) Evaluations of im/politeness of intercultural apology. Intercultural Pragmatics 8, 3: 411-442. Available online.
• 2010 Jocular mockery, (dis)affiliation and face, Journal of Pragmatics 42, 8: 2106-2119. Available online.
• 2010 (with F. Bargiela-Chiappini) Face in interaction, Journal of Pragmatics 42, 8: 2073-2077. Available online.
• 2010 When is an email really offensive?: Argumentativity and variability in evaluations of impoliteness, Journal of Politeness Research 6, 1: 7-31. Available online.
• 2009 Intention(ality) and the conceptualisation of communication in pragmatics, Australian Journal of Linguistics 29, 1: 91-113. Available online.
• 2009 (with A. Liddicoat) Examining conceptualisations of communication, Australian Journal of Linguistics 29, 1: 1-10. Available online.
• 2008 Utterance-final conjunctive particles and the co-constitution of implicature in Japanese conversation, Pragmatics 18, 3: 425-451. Available online.
• 2008 Intention and diverging interpretings of implicature in the uncovered meat sermon, Intercultural Pragmatics 5, 2: 201-229. Available online.
• 2008 Intention in pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics 5, 2: 99-110. Available online.
• 2008 The discursive negotiation of international student identities, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 29, 2: 207-222. Available online.
• 2007 The discursive challenge to politeness theory: an interactional alternative, Journal of Politeness Research 3, 2: 295-317. Available online.
• 2007 The co-constitution of politeness implicature in conversation, Journal of Pragmatics 39, 1:84-110. Available online.
• 2007 Emic conceptualisations of (im)politeness and face in Japanese: implications for the discursive negotiation of second language learner identities, Journal of Pragmatics 39, 4: 657-680. Available online.
• 2006 Emic perspectives on the positive-negative politeness distinction, Culture, Language and Representation 3: 17-26. Available online.
• 2005 The importance of 'place' in Japanese politeness: Implications for cross-cultural and intercultural analyses, Intercultural Pragmatics 2, 1. Available online.
• 2004 Revisiting the conceptualisation of politeness in English and Japanese, Multilingua 23, 1/2:85-109.  Available online.
• 2003 Anticipated versus inferred politeness, Multilingua 22, 4:397-413. Available online.
• 2003 Japanese and non-Japanese perceptions of Japanese communication, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 5, 1:156-177. Available online.
• 2003 (with C. Hinze) A metalinguistic approach to deconstructing the concepts of 'face' and 'politeness' in Chinese, English and Japanese, Journal of Pragmatics 35, 1-11:1581-1611. Available online.
• 2002 The intuitive basis of implicature; Relevance theoretic implicitness versus Gricean implying, Pragmatics 12, 2:117-134. Available online.
• 1999 Validation of Frameworks of Communicative Competence and Oral Proficiency Assessment, New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics 5:22-43
• 1998 Native Speakers' Beliefs about Nihonjinron and Miller's Law of Inverse Returns, Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese32, 2:64-96

Conference proceedings

• 2012 (wiith S. Cassidy, P. Peters and M. Fallu) The Australian National Corpus infrastructure for language resources. In Nicoletta Calzolari et. al (eds.) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp.3295-3299). European Language Resources Association.
• 2009 Designing a multimodal spoken component of the Australian National Corpus. In M. Haugh, K. Burridge, J. Mulder and P. Peters (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the HSCNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages (pp. 74-86), Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Sommerville, MA. Available online.
• 2009 (with S. Musgrave) The AusNC project: plans, progress and implications for language technology. In L. Pizzato and R. Schwitter (eds.) Proceedings of the Australian Language Technology Workshop 2009 (pp. 29-34), Australasian Language Technology Association. Available online.

Reviews

• 2009 Review of 'Impoliteness in interaction' by Derek Bousfield, Journal of Politeness Research 5, 1: 113-117. Available online.
• 2006 Review of 'Discourse politeness in Japanese conversation' by Mayumi Usami, Journal of Politeness Research 2, 2: 313-317. Available online.
• 2005 Review of 'Australia's Many Voices. Volumes 1 and 2' by Gerhard Leitner, Australian Journal of Linguistics 25, 2: 275-280.
• 2005 Review of 'Requests and Culture: Politeness in British English and Japanese' by Saeko Fukushima, Journal of Politeness Research 1, 1: 160-165. Available online.

Encyclopedia entries

• 2012 Conversational implicature. In Carol A Chapelle (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, Wiley-Blackwell.
• 2012 Inference and implicature. In Carol A Chapelle (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, Wiley-Blackwell.

Film publications

• 2006 Getting involved at Griffith. A guide for international students, Faculty of Arts, Griffith University.