Researcher biography
As a Professor of Linguistics, Michael Haugh researches pragmatics - the analysis of the role of language in social interaction - with a focus on analysing face, (im)politeness, teasing and humour, indirectness, and intention. 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. It’s within this research of digital spaces that Haugh has investigated manifestations of pragmatics in these areas that are unique to online spaces, and how they have developed.
At the 2020 webinar forum What can the humanities tell us about COVID-19?, Haugh and Martin Schweinberger explored different phases in responses to the Covid-19 situation in Australia.
For this project, Haugh and Schweinberger used a text-mining approach to ascertain different phases in responses to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation amongst Australian Twitter users. Haugh and Schweinberger analysed the data through a linguistic lens to find what topics characterize these phases, and if there were shifts in the kinds of stances taken over time during the unfolding of the COVID-19 situation. It’s projects such as these that illuminate Haugh’s interest in the ways in which pragmatic phenomena have their distinct local flavours, both across and within languages and cultures.
One key issue of interest in pragmatics is the question of how participants figure out what it is they are doing, and how their relationships with others are constituted or construed via different forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC). More broadly, we have the question of what this talk, accomplished in this way, means for those participants, and what this talk is taken to be doing from an emic-insider perspective. One area that has seen an increasing amount of work in studies of relational aspects of CMC is the way in which it is used as a means of sharing troubles and eliciting various expressions of empathy or sympathy, as well as seeking and giving advice about such troubles. - Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions (edited by Marta Dynel, and Jan Chovanec, 2015.)
It’s here that Haugh is interested in the emerging importance of language corpora - a collection of texts to be analysed, and the tool for performing that analysis - can play in pragmatics and linguistics more broadly, utilising a range of sources including Twitter, message boards, and more in his research. In a 2016 lecture at the GAL Research School for Methods in Empirical Pragmatics (Bonn, Germany), Haugh spoke on some of the methodological aspects utilised in his research. It’s with this in mind that he has been involved in the establishment of the Australian National Corpus, a discovery service that collated and provided access to assorted examples of Australian English text, transcriptions, audio, and audio-visual materials, and is interested in further developing methods in corpus pragmatics. Then, a greater understanding of how context shapes online interactions can be obtained.
More recently he has co-led the establishment of the Language Technology and Data Analysis Lab (LADAL) at UQ with Dr Martin Schweinberger, as well as leading the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) initiative. He is currently leading two national collaborative research infrastructure projects co-funded by ARDC: the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) project ($1,339,000, 2021-2023, UQ in collaboration with AARNet and University of Sydney), and the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) Data Partnerships project ($856,000, 2021-2023, UQ in collaboration with AIATSIS, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, ANU, Monash University and University of Melbourne).
Publications
Books
Obana, Yasuko and Haugh, Michael (2023). Sociopragmatics of Japanese: theoretical implications. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003056645
Culpeper, Jonathan, Haugh, Michael and Kádár, Dániel Z. (2017). The Palgrave handbook of linguistic (im)politeness. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7
Haugh, Michael (2015). Im/Politeness implicatures. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110240078
Culpeper, Jonathan and Haugh, Michael (2014). Pragmatics and the English language. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kadar, Daniel Z. and Haugh, Michael (2013). Understanding politeness. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139382717
Book Chapters
Haugh, Michael (2024). Chapter 7. Ostensible offers, politeness and sincere hypocrisy. The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy. (pp. 162-186) Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/pbns.343.07hau
Qiu, Jia, Chen, Xinren and Haugh, Michael (2023). Emojis and jocular flattery in Chinese instant messaging interactions. Interactional Humor. (pp. 231-262) Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110983128-009
Sheikhan, Amir and Haugh, Michael (2023). Epistemics and conversational humour in intercultural first conversations. The pragmatics of humour in interactive contexts. (pp. 110-132) edited by Esther Linares Bernabéu. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/pbns.335.05she
Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2023). (Dis)agreeability in intercultural first conversations among Australian and Taiwanese university students. Negotiating intercultural relations: insights from linguistics, psychology, and intercultural education. (pp. 15-34) edited by Troy McConachy and Perry Hinton. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350276963.0009
Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2022). Sociopragmatics and intercultural interaction. The Cambridge handbook of intercultural pragmatics. (pp. 420-444) edited by Istvan Kecskes. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108884303.017
Haugh, Michael (2022). (Im)politeness in video-mediated first conversations amongst speakers of English as a lingua franca. Pragmatics in English as a lingua franca: findings and developments. (pp. 81-103) edited by Ian Walkinshaw. Boston, MA, United States: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9781501512520-005
Deppermann, Arnulf and Haugh, Michael (2022). Action ascription in social interaction. Action ascription in interaction. (pp. 3-28) edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Michael Haugh. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108673419.001
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2022). Chinese conversational humour over time: contemporary practice and tradition in Taiwanese cultures. Humour in Asian cultures: Tradition and Context. (pp. 188-210) edited by Jessica Milner Davis. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003176374-9
Haugh, Michael (2022). Action ascription, accountability and inference. Action ascription in interaction. (pp. 81-104) edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Michael Haugh. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108673419.005
Haugh, Michael (2021). Discourse and politeness. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis. (pp. 219-232) edited by Ken Hyland, Brian Paltridge and Lillian L.C. Wong. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350156111.ch-016
Haugh, Michael, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Terkourafi, Marina (2021). Introduction: directions in sociopragmatics. The Cambridge handbook of sociopragmatics. (pp. 1-12) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108954105.001
Culpeper, Jonathan and Haugh, Michael (2021). (Im)politeness and Sociopragmatics. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics. (pp. 315-339) edited by Michael Haugh, Dániel Z. Kádár and Marina Terkourafi. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108954105.018
Clift, Rebecca and Haugh, Michael (2021). Conversation Analysis and Sociopragmatics. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics. (pp. 616-638) edited by Michael Haugh, Dániel Z. Kádár and Marina Terkourafi. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108954105.032
Haugh, Michael and Weinglass, Lara (2020). “The Great Australian Pastime”: pragmatic and semantic perspectives on taking the piss. Studies in ethnopragmatics, cultural semantics, and intercultural communication: ethnopragmatics and semantic analysis. (pp. 95-117) edited by Kerry Mullan, Bert Peeters and Lauren Sadow. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-32-9983-2_6
Musgrave, Simon and Haugh, Michael (2020). The Australian national corpus (and beyond). Australian English reimagined: structure, features and developments. (pp. 238-256) edited by Louisa Willoughby and Howard Manns. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429019692-15
Haugh, Michael and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). Offence and conflict talk. The Routledge handbook of language in conflict. (pp. 196-214) edited by Matthew Evans, Lesley Jeffries and Jim O’Driscoll. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429058011-12
Haugh, Michael (2019). The metapragmatics of consideration in (Australian and New Zealand) English. From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: multilingual and multicultural perspectives. (pp. 201-225) edited by Eva Ogiermann and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108182119.009
Haugh, Michael (2018). Corpus-based metapragmatics. Methods in pragmatics. (pp. 619-643) edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Klaus P. Schneider and Wolfram Bublitz. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110424928-024
Haugh, Michael (2018). Linguistic politeness. Cambridge handbook of Japanese linguistics. (pp. 608-627) edited by Yoko Hasegawa. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Haugh, Michael and Culpeper, Jonathan (2018). Integrative pragmatics and (im)politeness theory. Pragmatics and its interfaces. (pp. 213-239) edited by Cornelia Ilie and Neal R. Norrick. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/pbns.294.10hau
Giora, Rachel and Haugh, Michael (2017). Preface. Doing Pragmatics Interculturally: Cognitive, Philosophical, and Sociopragmatic Perspectives
. (pp. v-viii) edited by Rachel Giora and Michael Haugh. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110546095-202
Culpeper, Jonathan, Haugh, Michael and Kadar, Daniel Z. (2017). Introduction. The Palgrave handbook of linguistic (im)politeness. (pp. 1-8) edited by Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh and Daniel Z. Kadar. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan . doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7_1
Haugh, Michael and Watanabe, Yasuhisa (2017). (Im)politeness theory. The Routledge handbook of language in the workplace. (pp. 65-76) edited by Bernadette Vine. New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315690001
Culpeper, Jonathan, Haugh, Michael and Johnson, Daniel E. (2017). (Im)politeness: metalinguistic labels and concepts in English. Doing pragmatics interculturally: cognitive, philosophical and sociopragmatic perspectives. (pp. 135-147) edited by Rachel Giora and Michael Haugh. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110546095-008
Haugh, Michael (2017). Jocular language play, social action and (dis)affiliation in conversational interaction. Multiple perspectives on language play. (pp. 143-168) edited by Nancy Bell. Boston, MA, United States: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9781501503993-007
Haugh, Michael (2017). Mockery and (non-)Seriousness in initial interactions amongst American and Australian speakers of English. The Handbook of Communication in Cross-Cultural Perspective. (pp. 104-117) edited by Donal Carbaugh. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315709321
Haugh, Michael (2017). Implicature and the inferential substrate. Implicitness: from lexis to discourse. (pp. 281-304) edited by Piotr Cap and Marta Dynel. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Philadelphia, PA, United States: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2017). Intercultural communicative competence and emotion among second language learners of Chinese. Key issues in Chinese as a second language research. (pp. 267-286) edited by Istvan Kecskes and Chaofen Sun. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315660264-12
Haugh, Michael (2017). Intercultural pragmatics. The international encyclopedia of intercultural communication. (pp. 1-14) edited by Young Yun Kim. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118783665.ieicc0060
Culpeper, Jonathan, Haugh, Michael and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). (Im)politeness and mixed messages. The Palgrave handbook of linguistic (im)politeness. (pp. 323-355) edited by Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh and Daniel Z. Kadar. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7_13
Haugh, Michael (2017). Teasing. The Routledge handbook of language and humor. (pp. 204-218) edited by Salvatore Attardo. New York, NY, United States: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9781315731162
Giora, Rachel and Haugh, Michael (2017). Introduction. Doing Pragmatics Interculturally: Cognitive, Philosophical and Sociopragmatic Perspectives. (pp. 3-9) Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Haugh, Michael and Kadar, Daniel Z. (2017). Intercultural (im)politeness. The Palgrave handbook of linguistic (im)politeness. (pp. 601-632) edited by Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh and Daniel Z. Kadar. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7_23
Haugh, Michael (2016). Prompting social action as a higher-order pragmatic act. Pragmemes and theories of language use. (pp. 167-190) edited by Keith Allan, Alessandro Capone and Istvan Kecskes. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-43491-9_10
Haugh, Michael (2016). Linguistics. The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. (pp. 1-9) edited by Klaus Bruhn Jensen and Robert T. Craig. Malden, MA United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118766804.wbiect182
Jaszczolt, Kasia M., Savva, Eleni and Haugh, Michael (2016). The individual and the social path of interpretation: the case of incomplete disjunctive questions. Interdisciplinary studies in pragmatics, culture and society. (pp. 251-283) edited by Alessandro Capone and Jacob L. Mey. New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-12616-6_9
Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2015). Troubles talk, (dis)affiliation and the participation order in Taiwanese-Chinese online discussion boards. Participation in public and social media interactions. (pp. 99-133) edited by Marta Dynel and Jan Chovanec. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Haugh, Michael (2015). International students and the "English problem" in Australian universities: a discursive perspective. International education and cultural-linguistic experiences of international students in Australia. (pp. 91-104) edited by Abe Ata and Alex Kostogriz. Samford Valley, QLD, Australia: Australian Academic Press.
Ruhi, Sukriye, Schmidt, Thomas, Worner, Kai and Haugh, Michael (2014). Introduction: putting practices in spoken corpora into focus. Best practices for spoken corpora in linguistic research. (pp. 1-17) edited by Şükriye Ruhi, Michael Haugh, Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Musgrave, Simon, Schalley, Andrea C. and Haugh. Michael (2014). The use of ontologies as a tool for aggregating spoken corpora. Best practices for spoken corpora in linguistic research. (pp. 225-248) edited by Şükriye Ruhi, Michael Haugh, Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2013). Collaborative creation of spoken language corpora. Pragmatics language learning. (pp. 133-159) edited by Tim Greer, Donna Tatsuki and Carsten Roever. Honolulu, HI, United States: National Foreign Language Resource Center.
Haugh, Michael (2013). Implicature, inference and cancellability. Perspectives on pragmatics and philosophy. (pp. 133-151) edited by Alessandro Capone, Franco Lo Piparo and Marco Carapezza. New York, NY, United States: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-01011-3_6
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2013). 'Face' in Taiwanese business interactions: from emic concepts to emic practices. Chinese discourse and interaction. (pp. 126-150) edited by Yuling Pan and Daniel Z. Kadar. Bristol, United Kingdom: Equinox Publishing.
Haugh, Michael (2012). Conversational interaction. The Cambridge handbook of pragmatics. (pp. 251-274) edited by Keith Allan and Kasia M. Jaszczolt. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Haugh, Michael and Jaszczolt, Kasia M, (2012). Speaker intentions and intentionality. The Cambridge handbook of pragmatics. (pp. 87-112) edited by Keith Allan and Kasia M. Jaszczolt. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Haugh, Michael (2011). Intention(ality) and the conceptualization of communication in pragmatics. Human Communication Science: A Compendium. (pp. 29-49) edited by Robert Dale, Denis Burnham and Catherine J. Stevens. Sydney, Australia: ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science.
Haugh, Michael (2011). Epilogue: culture and norms in politeness research. Politeness in East Asia. (pp. 252-264) edited by Daniel Z. Kadar and Sara Mills. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Haugh, Michael (2011). Practices and defaults in interpreting disjunction. Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing. (pp. 189-225) edited by Kasia M. Jaszczolt and Keith Allan. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter.
Haugh, Michael, Davies, Bethan L. and Merrison, Andrew John (2011). Situating politeness. Situated politeness. (pp. 1-23) edited by Bethan L. Davies, Michael Haugh and Andrew John Merrison. London, United Kingdom: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Haugh, Michael and Obana, Yasuko (2011). Politeness in Japan. Politeness in East Asia. (pp. 147-175) edited by Daniel Z. Kadar and Sara Mills. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511977886.009
Haugh, Michael (2011). Humour, face and im/politeness in getting acquainted. Situated politeness. (pp. 165-184) edited by Bethan L. Davies, Michael Haugh and Andrew John Merrison. London, United Kingdom: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Haugh, Michael (2010). Respect and deference. Interpersonal pragmatics. (pp. 271-288) edited by Miriam A. Locher and Sage L. Graham. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110214338.2.271
Haugh, Michael (2010). Intercultural (im)politeness and the micro-macro issue. Pragmatics across languages and cultures. (pp. 139-166) edited by Anna Trosborg. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110214444.1.139
Haugh, Michael (2010). Co-constructing what is said in interaction. The role of data at the semantics-pragmatics interface. (pp. 349-380) edited by Eniko Nemeth T. and Karoly Bibok. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Haugh, Michael (2009). Face and interaction. Face, communication and social interaction. (pp. 1-30) edited by Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca and Haugh, Michael. London, United Kingdom: Equinox Publishing.
Haugh, Michael and Watanabe, Yasuhisa (2009). Analysing Japanese 'face-in-interaction': insights from intercultural business meetings. Face, communication and social interaction. (pp. 78-95) edited by Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca and Haugh, Michael. London, United Kingdom: Equinox Publishing.
Haugh, Michael (2008). The place of intention in the interactional achievement of implicature. Intention, Common Ground and the Egocentric Speaker-Hearer. (pp. 45-86) De Gruyter Mouton.
Haugh, Michael (2008). The place of intention in the interactional achievement of implicature. Intention, common ground and the egocentric speaker-hearer. (pp. 45-85) edited by Istvan Kecskes and Jacob Mey. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.
Haugh, Michael (2005). What does 'face' mean to the Japanese? Understanding the import of 'face' in Japanese business interactions. Asian Business Discourse(s). (pp. 211-239) edited by Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Maurizio Gotti. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
Journal Articles
O’Driscoll, Jim and Haugh, Michael (2024). 20 years (further) on: whither politeness studies now? Opening up the binaries. Journal of Politeness Research, 1-9. doi: 10.1515/pr-2023-0085
Haugh, Michael (2024). (Im)politeness as object, (im)politeness as perspective. Journal of Politeness Research, 201-226. doi: 10.1515/pr-2023-0082
Haugh, Michael (2024). Online public denunciation as recursive social practice. Internet Pragmatics. doi: 10.1075/ip.00105.hau
Elder, Chi-Hé and Haugh, Michael (2023). Exposing and avoiding unwanted inferences in conversational interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 218, 115-132. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2023.09.014
Gruber, Helmut, Haugh, Michael and Xie, Chaoqun (2023). Editorial: Recontextualization: modes, media, and practices. Frontiers in Communication, 8 1164897. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2023.1164897
Haugh, Michael (2022). (Nie)grzeczność w dyskursie. tekst i dyskurs - text und diskurs (16 (2022)), 195-214. doi: 10.7311/tid.16.2022.10
Haugh, Michael, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Márquez Reiter, Rosina (2022). Offence and morality: pragmatic perspectives. Language and Communication, 87, 117-122. doi: 10.1016/j.langcom.2022.07.005
Haugh, Michael (2022). (Online) public denunciation, public incivilities and offence. Language and Communication, 87, 44-59. doi: 10.1016/j.langcom.2022.07.002
Sheikhan, Amir and Haugh, Michael (2022). Non-serious answers to (improper) questions in talk shows. Journal of Pragmatics, 191, 32-45. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.01.020
Haugh, Michael and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2021). The pragmatics of initial interactions: Cross-cultural and intercultural perspectives. Journal of Pragmatics, 185 (J. Pragmatics 169 2020), 35-39. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.09.004
Obana, Yasuko and Haugh, Michael (2021). (Non-)propositional irony in Japanese – Impoliteness behind honorifics. Lingua, 260 103119, 103119. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103119
Culpeper, Jonathan and Haugh, Michael (2021). The metalinguistics of offence in (British) English: a corpus-based metapragmatic approach. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 9 (2), 185-214. doi: 10.1075/jlac.00035.cul
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody, Haugh, Michael and Su, Hsi-Yao (2021). Taking it too far: the role of ideological discourses in contesting the limits of teasing and offence. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 31 (3), 382-405. doi: 10.1075/prag.20003.cha
Qiu, Jia, Chen, Xinren and Haugh, Michael (2021). Jocular flattery in Chinese multi-party instant messaging interactions. Journal of Pragmatics, 178, 225-241. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.03.020
Schweinberger, Martin, Haugh, Michael and Hames, Sam (2021). Analysing discourse around COVID-19 in the Australian Twittersphere: a real-time corpus-based analysis. Big Data and Society, 8 (1), 205395172110214. doi: 10.1177/20539517211021437
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2021). Teasing and claims to non-serious intent in Chinese talk shows. East Asian Pragmatics, 6 (2), 135-159. doi: 10.1558/eap.18158
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2020). The metapragmatics of “teasing” in Taiwanese Chinese conversational humour. The European Journal of Humour Research, 8 (4), 7-30. doi: 10.7592/ejhr2020.8.4.chang
Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2019). Indexical and sequential properties of criticisms in initial interactions: implications for examining (Im) politeness across cultures. Russian Journal of Linguistics, 23 (4), 904-929. doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-2019-23-4-904-929
Terkourafi, Marina and Haugh, Michael (2019). Editorial: “Quo Vadis, Pragmatics?”. Journal of Pragmatics, 145, 1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2019.04.005
Márquez-Reiter, Rosina and Haugh, Michael (2019). Denunciation, blame and the moral turn in public life. Discourse, Context and Media, 28, 35-43. doi: 10.1016/j.dcm.2018.09.001
Haugh, Michael and Musgrave, Simon (2019). Conversational lapses and laughter: towards a combinatorial approach to building collections in conversation analysis. Journal of Pragmatics, 143, 279-291. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.09.005
Haugh, Michael and Melody Chang, Wei-Lin (2019). “The apology seemed (in)sincere”: Variability in perceptions of (im)politeness. Journal of Pragmatics, 142, 207-222. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.11.022
Flint, Natalie, Haugh, Michael and Merrison, Andrew John (2019). Modulating troubles affiliating in initial interactions the role of remedial accounts. Pragmatics, 29 (3), 384-409. doi: 10.1075/prag.17010.fli
Elder, Chi-He and Haugh, Michael (2018). The interactional achievement of speaker meaning: toward a formal account of conversational inference. Intercultural Pragmatics, 15 (5), 593-625. doi: 10.1515/ip-2018-0021
Haugh, Michael and Weinglass, Lara (2018). Divided by a common language? Jocular quips and (non-)affiliative responses in initial interactions among American and Australian speakers of English. Intercultural Pragmatics, 15 (4), 533-562. doi: 10.1515/ip-2018-0019
Haugh, Michael and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). Accusations and interpersonal conflict in televised multi-party interactions amongst speakers of (Argentinian and Peninsular) Spanish. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 6 (2), 248-270. doi: 10.1075/jlac.00012.hau
Haugh, Michael and Pillet-Shore, Danielle (2018). Getting to know you: teasing as an invitation to intimacy in initial interactions. Discourse Studies, 20 (2), 246-269. doi: 10.1177/1461445617734936
Obana, Yasuko and Haugh, Michael (2018). Malefactive uses of giving/receiving expressions: the case of te-kureru in Japanese. East Asian Pragmatics, 3 (2), 201-231. doi: 10.1558/eap.35239
Haugh, Michael (2018). Afterword: Theorizing (im)politeness. Journal of Politeness Research-Language Behaviour Culture, 14 (1), 153-165. doi: 10.1515/pr-2017-0058
Rowen, Roslyn and Haugh, Michael (2017). Bogans, lawyers and teachers: On the interactional achievement of word meanings. Intercultural Pragmatics, 14 (3), 327-359. doi: 10.1515/ip-2017-0018
Haugh, Michael (2017). Prompting offers of assistance in interaction. Pragmatics and Society, 8 (2), 183-207. doi: 10.1075/ps.8.2.02hau
Stallone, Leticia and Haugh, Michael (2017). Joint fantasising as relational practice in Brazilian Portuguese interactions. Language and Communication, 55, 10-23. doi: 10.1016/j.langcom.2016.08.012
Nemeth, Luca Anna, Kadar, Daniel Z. and Haugh, Michael (2016). Nyelvi udvariasság/udvariatlanság és metapragmatika. Filologia, 4-27.
Haugh, Michael (2016). "Just kidding": teasing and claims to non-serious intent. Journal of Pragmatics, 95, 120-136. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2015.12.004
Haugh, Michael (2016). Complaints and troubles talk about the English language skills of international students in Australian universities. Higher Education Research and Development, 35 (4), 727-740. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2015.1137878
Haugh, Michael (2016). The role of English as a scientific metalanguage for research in pragmatics: reflections on the metapragmatics of 'politeness' in Japanese. East Asian Pragmatics, 1 (1), 39-71. doi: 10.1558/eap.v1i1.27610
Norrick, Neal and Haugh, Michael (2015). Interdisciplinary perspectives on pragmatics: A festschrift for Jonathan Culpeper. Journal of Pragmatics, 86, 1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2015.07.007
Haugh, Michael (2015). Review of Intercultural Pragmatics: Istvan Kecskes, Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York, 2014, 277 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-989265-5, EUR 64,00 (hardback). Journal of Pragmatics, 79, 40-42. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2015.01.012
Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2015). Understanding im/politeness across cultures: an interactional approach to raising sociopragmatic awareness. International Review of Applied Linguistics, 53 (4), 389-414. doi: 10.1515/iral-2015-0018
Mitchell, Nathaniel and Haugh, Michael (2015). Agency, accountability and evaluations of impoliteness. Journal of Politeness Research, 11 (2), 207-238. doi: 10.1515/pr-2015-0009
Obana, Yasuko and Haugh, Michael (2015). Co-authorship of joint utterances in Japanese. Dialogue and Discourse, 6 (1), 1-25. doi: 10.5087/dad.2015.101
Haugh, Michael (2015). Impoliteness and taking offence in initial interactions. Journal of Pragmatics, 86, 36-42. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2015.05.018
Haugh, Michael and Carbaugh, Donal (2015). Self-disclosure in initial interactions amongst speakers of American and Australian English. Multilingua, 34 (4), 461-493. doi: 10.1515/multi-2014-0104
Haugh, Michael and Obana, Yasuko (2015). Transformative continuations, (dis)affiliation, and accountability in Japanese interaction. Text and Talk, 35 (5), 597-619. doi: 10.1515/text-2015-0015
Haugh, Michael, Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Kadar, Daniel Z. (2015). "Doing Deference": Identities and relational practices in Chinese online discussion boards. Pragmatics, 25 (1), 73-98. doi: 10.1075/prag.25.1.04hau
Fukushima, Saeko and Haugh, Michael (2014). The role of emic understandings in theorizing im/politeness: the metapragmatics of attentiveness, empathy and anticipatory inference in Japanese and Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics, 74, 165-179. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2014.08.004
Schalley, Andrea C., Musgrave, Simon and Haugh, Michael (2014). Accessing phonetic variation in spoken language corpora through non-standard orthography. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 34 (1), 139-170. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2014.875459
Haugh, Michael (2014). Jocular mockery as interactional practice in everyday Anglo-Australian conversation. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 34 (1), 76-99. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2014.875456
Peters, Pam and Haugh, Michael (2014). Speech Styles and Spoken Interaction in the Australian National Corpus. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 34 (1), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/07268602.2014.875451
Haugh, Michael, Kadar, Daniel Z. and Mills, Sara (2013). Interpersonal pragmatics: issues and debates. Journal of Pragmatics, 58, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.09.009
Haugh, Michael (2013). Im/politeness, social practice and the participation order. Journal of Pragmatics, 58, 53-72. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.07.003
Simpson, Rebecca, Eisenchlas, Susana and Haugh, Michael (2013). The functions of self-initiated self-repair in the second language Chinese classroom. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 23 (2), 144-165. doi: 10.1111/j.1473-4192.2012.00323.x
Kadar, Daniel Z., Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2013). Aggression and perceived national face threats in Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese CMC discussion boards. Multilingua, 32 (3), 343-372. doi: 10.1515/multi-2013-0016
Haugh, Michael (2013). Speaker meaning and accountability in interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 48 (1), 41-56. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.11.009
Haugh, Michael (2013). Disentangling face, facework and im/politeness. Pragmatica Sociocultural, 1 (1), 46-73. doi: 10.1515/soprag-2012-0005
Haugh, Michael and Bousfield, Derek (2012). Mock impoliteness, jocular mockery and jocular abuse in Australian and British English. Journal of Pragmatics, 44 (9), 1099-1114. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.02.003
Merrison, Andrew John, Wilson, Jack J., Davies, Bethan L. and Haugh, Michael (2012). Getting stuff done: comparing 'e-mail requests' from students in higher education in Britain and Australia. Journal of Pragmatics, 44 (9), 1077-1098. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.05.009
Haugh, Michael and Schneider, Klaus P. (2012). Im/politeness across Englishes. Journal of Pragmatics, 44 (9), 1017-1021. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.05.010
Haugh, Michael (2012). On understandings of intention: a response to Wedgewood. Intercultural Pragmatics, 9 (2), 161-194. doi: 10.1515/ip-2012-0011
Haugh, Michael (2012). Epilogue: the first-second order distinction in face and politeness research. Journal of Politeness Research, 8 (1), 111-134. doi: 10.1515/pr-2012-0007
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2011). Evaluations of im/politeness of an intercultural apology. Intercultural Pragmatics, 8 (3), 411-442. doi: 10.1515/iprg.2011.019
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2011). Strategic embarrassment and face threatening in business interactions. Journal of Pragmatics, 43 (12), 2948-2963. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.05.009
Haugh, Michael (2010). Jocular mockery, (dis)affiliation, and face. Journal of Pragmatics, 42 (8), 2106-2119. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.018
Haugh, Michael and Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca (2010). Face in interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 42 (8), 2073-2077. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.12.013
Haugh, Michael (2010). When is an email really offensive?: argumentativity and variability in evaluations of impoliteness. Journal of Politeness Research, 6 (1), 7-31. doi: 10.1515/jplr.2010.002
Haugh, Michael (2009). "Impoliteness in Interaction" by Derek Bousfield. Journal of Politeness Research, 5 (1), 113-117.
Haugh, Michael and Liddicoat, Anthony J. (2009). Examining conceptualizations of communication. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 29 (1), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/07268600802516343
Haugh, Michael (2009). Intention(ality) and the conceptualisation of communication in pragmatics. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 29 (1), 91-113. doi: 10.1080/07268600802516301
Haugh, Michael (2008). Intention and diverging interpretings of implicature in the "uncovered meat" sermon. Intercultural Pragmatics, 5 (2), 201-228. doi: 10.1515/IPRG.2008.011
Haugh, Michael (2008). Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation. Pragmatics, 18 (3), 425-451. doi: 10.1075/prag.18.3.04hau
Haugh, Michael (2008). Intention and diverging interpretings of implicature in the 'uncovered meat' sermon. Intercultural Pragmatics, 5 (2), 201-229. doi: 10.1515/IP.2008.011
Haugh, Michael (2008). The discursive negotiation of international student identities. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 29 (2), 207-222. doi: 10.1080/01596300801966849
Haugh, Michael (2008). Intention in pragmatics. Intercultural Pragmatics, 5 (2), 99-110. doi: 10.1515/IP.2008.006
Haugh, Michael (2007). The discursive challenge to politeness theory: an interactional alternative. Journal of Politeness Research, 3 (2), 295-317. doi: 10.1515/PR.2007.013
Haugh, Michael (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. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.12.005
Haugh, Michael (2007). The co-constitution of politeness implicature in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 39 (1), 84-110. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.07.004
Haugh, Michael (2006). Review of Mayumi Usami, Discourse Politeness in Japanese Conversation. Some implications for a universal theory of politeness. Journal of Politeness Research, 2 (2), 313-317. doi: 10.1515/PR.2006.015
Haugh, Michael (2006). Emic perspectives on the positive-negative politeness distinction. Cultural Studies Journal of Universitat Jaume 1, 3, 17-26.
Haugh, Michael (2005). "Australia's Many Voices: Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant Languages. Policy and Education" by Gerhard Leitner. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 25 (2), 278-280.
Haugh, Michael (2005). "Australia's Many Voices: Australian English - A National Language" by Gerhard Leitner. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 25 (2), 275-278.
Haugh, Michael (2005). "Requests and Culture: Politeness in British English and Japanese" by Saeko Fukushima. Journal of Politeness Research, 1 (1), 160-165.
Haugh, Michael (2005). The importance of 'place' in Japanese politeness: implications for cross-cultural and intercultural analyses. Intercultural Pragmatics, 2 (1), 41-68. doi: 10.1515/iprg.2005.2.1.41
Haugh, Michael (2004). (Book review) Japanese/Korean Linguistics. Volume 12. Asian Studies Review, 28 (3), 328-329. doi: 10.1080/1035782042000291123
Haugh, M. B. (2004). Revisiting the conceptualisation of politeness in English and Japanese. Multilingua, 23 (1/2), 85-109. doi: 10.1515/mult.2004.009
Haugh, Michael and Hinze, Carl (2003). A metalinguistic approach to deconstructing the concepts of 'face' and 'politeness' in Chinese, English and Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics, 35 (10-11), 1581-1611. doi: 10.1016/S0378-2166(03)00049-3
Haugh, M. B. (2003). Japanese and non-Japanese perceptions of Japanese communication. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 5 (1), 156-177.
Haugh, M. B. (2003). Anticipated versus inferred politeness. Multilingua, 22 (4), 397-413. doi: 10.1515/mult.2003.020
Haugh, Michael (2002). The intuitive basis of implicature: relevance theoretic implicitness versus Gricean implying. Pragmatics, 12 (2), 117-134. doi: 10.1075/prag.12.2.01hau
Haugh, M. (1999). Validation of frameworks of communicative competence and oral proficiency assessment. New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics, 5, 22-43.
Haugh, Michael (1998). Native-speaker beliefs about Nihonjinron and Miller's "Law of Inverse Returns". Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 32 (2), 27-58. doi: 10.2307/489578
Conference Papers
Schweinberger, Martin, Fatemi, Masoud, Hames, Sam, Haugh, Michael, Laitinen, Mikko, Rautionaho, Paula and Takahashi, Marissa (2023). Who swears most – and in what social settings?. 7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE7), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19-23 June 2023. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Cassidy, Steve, Haugh, Michael, Peters, Pam and Fallu, Mark (2012). The Australian National Corpus: National Infrastructure for Language Resources. Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Istanbul, Turkey, 21-27 May 2012. Istanbul, Turkey: European Language Resources Association.
Haugh, Michael (2009). Designing a multimodal spoken component of the Australian national corpus. CSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus, Sydney, Australia, 4-5 December 2008. Somerville, MA, United States: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Musgrave, Simon and Haugh, Michael (2009). The AusNC project: plans, progress and implications for language technology. Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2009, Sydney, Australia, 3-4 December 2009. Sydney, Australia: Australasian Language Technology Association.
Haugh, Michael, Burridge, Kate, Mulder, Jean and Peters, Pam (2009). Introduction: mustering languages in Australia. HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus, Sydney, Australia, 4-5 December 2008. Somerville, MA, United States: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Research Report
Thesis
Haugh, Michael Bevan (2003). Politeness implicature in Japanese : a metalinguistic approach. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/106358