Neal R. Norrick holds the chair of English Linguistics at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. His research specializations include conversation, narrative, verbal humor and formulaicity. Professor Norrick acts as Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Pragmatics, and he serves on the advisory boards of the journals Discourse Processes, Humor, International Review of Pragmatics and Text & Talk. He is an elected member of the advisory board of the International Pragmatics Association. Professor Norrick co-edited the Handbook of Pragmatics, vol. 1: Theoretical Foundations (de Gruyter, 2011). His most recent articles include: Narratives of vicarious experience in conversation. Language in Society 42 (2013); Aggression in storytelling performance. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 1 (2013); Listening practices in English conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (2012); Remembering for narration and autobiographical memory. Language and Dialogue 2 (2012); Swearing in literary prose fiction and conversational narrative. Narrative Inquiry 22 (2012).
