Dr Eva Ogiermann Academics Supervisors Reader in English Language and Applied Linguistics Programme Director: MA Language and Cultural Diversity. Research subject areas Languages Communication Contact details +44 (0)20 7848 3243 eva.ogiermann@kcl.ac.uk
“Stay safe!” — A wish, advice, or an order? Pragmatic variability and change in times of a pandemic On authentic questions in academic writing tutorials: Epistemic authority and the co-construction of knowledge Pragmatics in the service of marketing: The case of COVID-19 semi-commercial public signs Introduction: The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic Disseminating risk communication: Advice offered on non-official public signage during the Covid-19 pandemic Dialogue-enabling questions in academic writing tutorials Accounts as acts of identity: Justifying business closures on COVID-19 public signs in Athens and London On the dual role of expressive speech acts: Relational work on signs announcing closures during the Covid-19 pandemic From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: Multilingual and multicultural perspectives Conceptualising politeness in Greece and Great Britain An interlanguage study of request perspective: Evidence from German, Greek, Polish and Russian learners of English Directives in academic writing tutorials: How do different teaching styles affect their use? Im/politeness between the analyst and participant perspectives – an overview of the field. Researching im/politeness in face-to-face interactions: On disagreements in Polish homes An Intergenerational Perspective on (Im)politeness Discourse completion tasks Direct off-record requests? – ‘Hinting’ in family interactions Object requests: Rights and obligations surrounding object possession and object transfer In/directness in Polish children's requests at the dinner table 'Understanding Politeness' by Daniel Kadar and Michael Haugh Apology Discourse Gender variation of anglicisms in German: The influence of cognitive factors and regional varieties On pragmatic input in Green Line New Gender-based differences in English apology realisations Cultural variability within Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory. English, Polish and Russian apologies A contrastive analysis of gender-based differences in English and Russian apologies Michał Czajkowski und Ion Ghica. Zum polnisch-rumänischen Verhältnis im Vormärz und in der Revolution von 1848 'Apologising in British English' by Mats Deutschmann Introduction: Multilingual communication in binational families: Negotiating languages, identities and everyday tasks On the inclusive and exclusive functions of the ‘other’ language in family talk Responsibility and Action: Invariants and Diversity in Requests for Objects in British English and Polish Interaction Teaching politeness with Green Line New? Review of 'Höflichkeit zwischen Konvention und Kreativität. Eine pragmalinguistische Analyse von Dankesformeln im Russischen' Gender variation in English loan words integrated into German and Polish Statistics in contrastive pragmatics About Polish Politeness Investigating gender variation of English loanwords in German On im/politeness behind the Iron Curtain On Apologising in Negative and Positive Politeness Cultures How to Propose an Action as Objectively Necessary: The Case of Polish Trzeba x ("One Needs to x") Politeness and in-directness across cultures: A comparison of English, German, Polish and Russian requests On the culture-specificity of linguistic gender differences: The case of English and Russian apologies View all publications
24 November 2022 New study of Covid-19 public signs launched A new research project, led by Dr Eva Ogiermann, examines how Covid-19 signage displayed in London…