Daniela Landert

Daniela Landert is a Swiss linguist and Professor of English Linguistics at Heidelberg University. Her research spans pragmatics, including historical and corpus pragmatics, the pragmatics of fiction, and spontaneity in spoken interaction. She has served as editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Historical Pragmatics since 2022, received a PRIMA career grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and her 2024 monograph has been reviewed in multiple scholarly journals.

Early life and education Landert studied English linguistics at the University of Zurich, where she completed her doctorate and later her Habilitation.

Career Following posts at Zurich and the University of Basel, Landert led the SNSF-funded PRIMA project The Pragmatics of Improvised Drama Comedy. and she delivered her inaugural lecture in July 2024.

Research Landert’s work combines methods from historical linguistics and corpus linguistics to examine epistemic stance and modality in Early Modern English, the pragmatics of scripted and improvised fiction, and how spontaneity shapes interactional practices.

Publications Books

Reception Landert’s 2024 monograph has been reviewed in Corpus Pragmatics, ICAME Journal, and Corpora.

Invited talks Plenary lecture, ISLE 8, Santiago de Compostela, September 2025.