Books
- Pichler, Heike (ed.). 2016. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107295476
- Pichler, Heike. 2013. The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation (Studies in Language Variation 13). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.13
Journal articles
Book chapters
Refereed working papers & conference proceedings
Book reviews
Editorial
Outreach publications & resources
Speech corpora created
- Pichler, Heike. 2021. Grammaticalization and language contact in a discourse-pragmatic change in progress: the spread of innit in London English. Language in Society 50(5): 721-761. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404521000257
- Pichler, Heike, Suzanne Evans Wagner & Ashley Hesson. 2018. Old-age language variation and change: confronting variationist ageism. Language and Linguistics Compass 12(6): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12281
- Hesson, Ashley & Heike Pichler. 2018. Breaking down barriers in pediatric mental health consultations: understanding patients' use of I DON'T KNOW. Health Communication 33(7): 867-876. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2017.1321160
- Pichler, Heike & Ashley Hesson. 2016. Discourse-pragmatic variation across situations, varieties, ages: I DON'T KNOW in sociolinguistic and medical interviews. Language & Communication 49: 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2016.04.002
- Hesson, Ashley & Heike Pichler. 2016. Interpreting I DON'T KNOW use by persons living with dementia in Mini-Mental State Examinations. Patient Education and Counseling 99(9): 1534-1541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2016.07.001
- Pichler, Heike & Stephen Levey. 2011. In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: general extenders in north-east England. English Language and Linguistics 14(3): 441-471. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674311000128
- Pichler, Heike. 2010. Methods in discourse variation analysis: reflections on the way forward. Journal of Sociolinguistics 14(5): 581-608. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2010.00455.x
- Pichler, Heike. 2009. The functional and social reality of discourse variants in a northern English dialect: I DON'T KNOW and I DON'T THINK compared. Intercultural Pragmatics 6(4): 561-596. https://doi.org/10.1515/IPRG.2009.028
Book chapters
- Pichler, Heike & Jenny Cheshire. submitted. Discourse-pragmatic variation in England. In Susan Fox (ed.) Languages in the British Isles. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Pichler, Heike. 2022. Afterword: future priorities in discourse-pragmatic variation and change research. In Elizabeth Peterson, Turo Hiltunen & Joseph Kern (eds) Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change. Theory, Innovations, Contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 293-300.
- Pichler, Heike. 2021. Tagging monologic narratives of personal experience: utterance-final tags and the construction of adolescent masculinity. In Karen Beaman, Isabelle Buchstaller, Sue Fox & James Walker (eds) Advancing Socio-Grammatical Variation and Change: Sociolinguistic Research in Honour of Jenny Cheshire. London: Routledge. 377-398.
- Pichler, Heike. 2016. Introduction: discourse-pragmatic variation and change. In Heike Pichler (ed.) Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-17.
- Pichler, Heike. 2016. Uncovering discourse-pragmatic innovations: innit in Multicultural London English. In Heike Pichler (ed.) Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 59-85.
Refereed working papers & conference proceedings
- Levey, Stephen & Heike Pichler. 2020. Revisiting transatlantic relatives: evidence from British and Canadian English. In Yoshiyuki Asahi (ed.) Proceedings of Methods XVI. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 239-247.
- Pichler, Heike & Stephen Levey. 2010. Variability in the co-occurrence of discourse features. Language Studies Working Papers 2: 17-27.
- Pichler, Heike. 2007. Form-function relations in discourse: the case of I DON'T KNOW. Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics 13: 174-187.
Book reviews
- Pichler, Heike. 2013. Review of Warren Maguire & April McMahon (eds). 2011. Analysing Variation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of English Linguistics 41(2): 204-207.
- Pichler, Heike. 2010. Review of Laurel J. Brinton. 2008. The Comment Clause in English. Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Pragmatics 42(10): 2857-2859.
- Pichler, Heike. 2010. Review of Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta & Minna Korhonen (eds). 2008. The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation. Corpus evidence on English past and present. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Linguist list 21.14.
Editorial
- Pichler, Heike, Rob Truswell, Kristin Van de Poel, Daniel Van Olmen & Kevin Watson. 2015. Editorial. Ampersand 2: 70-71.
Outreach publications & resources
- Pichler, Heike. 2017. Talking with older adults. Newsletter of the Elders Council of Newcastle (August-October): 12.
- Pichler, Heike & Sue Fox. 2012. Analysing spoken English: resources and techniques for English Language teachers. Unpublished resource booklet for A-level English Language teachers (incl. contributions by Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan, Stephen Levey & Adam Mearns). [See this link for an up-dated version of the resource list.]
Speech corpora created
- Pichler, Heike. 2019-ongoing. Longitudinal corpus of Tyneside English conversational interviews with adults aged 70+ (47 speakers at baseline). Digitised & transcribed in Elan.
- Pichler, Heike. 2011-2012. Corpus of Salford English dyadic conversations (36 speakers stratified by age and sex). Digitised & fully transcribed in Elan.
- Pichler, Heike. 2003-2005. Corpus of Berwick English sociolinguistic interviews (36 speakers stratified by age and sex). Digitised & fully transcribed.
Last up-dated: 16 November 2021.