Who are some notable linguists in the field of historical pragmatics?

Andreas Jucker seems to be the guy that single handedly conjured this field into being, including the journal and the collection of essays in the late 90s. (I think I reviewed it way back then.) Namechecked at Historical pragmatics – Wikipedia

UZH – English Department

Ah, bugger. He’s the Dean of Arts at Zurich U. No more research out of him, then.