Eva Ogiermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 987308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Ogiermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Ogiermann |
| SIGNATURE | OGIERMANN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9830-4851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
On authentic questions in academic writing tutorials: Epistemic authority and the co-construction of knowledge
Stay safe!” — A wish, advice, or an order: Pragmatic variability and change in times of a pandemic
This paper offers a diachronic analysis focussing on the different uses and forms that the expression stay safe acquired throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. It makes an original contribution to the study of historical pragmatics by drawing on data traditionally examined in the field of linguistic landscape studies and produced during a global health crisis, resulting in an innovative, real-time study of pragmatic change in progress. Drawing on a co…
Pragmatics in the service of marketing: The case of Covid-19 semi-commercial public signs
Disseminating risk communication: Advice offered on non-official public signage during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper investigates advice offered on closure signs displayed on businesses in Greece and the UK during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic. By scrutinising signs photographed in London and in Athens, as well as speeches delivered by the British and Greek prime ministers at the time of the closures, our analysis shows how business owners pass on government instructions to their customers. The study thus makes an original contribution …
Accounts as acts of identity: Justifying business closures on Covid-19 public signs in Athens and London
This paper investigates accounts justifying the closures of businesses found on public signs in Athens and London during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data for the study was drawn from a corpus of COVID-19-related public signage collected in the two cities during the first lockdown. The accounts used on these signs are analysed as acts of identity and, specifically, as discursive means deployed by the authors of the signs to project themselves and t…
On the dual role of expressive speech acts: Relational work on signs announcing closures during the Covid-19 pandemic
An Interlanguage Study of Request Perspective: Evidence from German, Greek, Polish and Russian Learners of English
The present study examines request perspective, the least researched form of mitigation in requesting, while focusing on a type of request characterized by a strong preference for speaker perspective in English and for hearer perspective in most other languages researched to date. It examines requests produced by 900 speakers from nine different (inter)language groups: five groups of native speakers (English, German, Greek, Polish and Russian) an…
An Intergenerational Perspective on (Im)politeness
The present paper provides an intergenerational perspective on Greek conceptualizations of (im)politeness. Based on interviews eliciting narratives of impolite behaviour of our participants’ parents’ generation, the study illustrates the contested and changing nature of politeness in contemporary Greece. Through critically evaluating the older generation’s behaviour, the participants not only provided insights into their own politeness norms but …
Understanding Politeness
In/directness in Polish children's requests at the dinner table
Direct off-record requests? - 'Hinting' in family interactions
Object requests: Rights and obligations surrounding object possession and object transfer
Responsibility and Action: Invariants and Diversity in Requests for Objects in British English and Polish Interaction
We compare the use of two formats for requesting an object in informal everyday interaction: imperatives, common in our Polish data, and second-person polar questions, common in our English data. Imperatives and polar questions are selected in the same interactional “home environments” across the languages, in which they enact two social actions: drawing on shared responsibility and enlisting assistance, respectively. Speakers across the language…
On the inclusive and exclusive functions of the ‘other’ language in family talk
The present study analyses bilingual conversations taking place in binational families living in the UK.The focus is on two Polish/English stepfamilies, where the Polish mothers' concern with preserving and developing their children's linguistic and cultural identity collides with the English partner's limited knowledge of Polish.While the paper takes a CA approach to bilingual conversation (Auer 1984;Li 1994), it shows that even when language ch…
On the inclusive and exclusive functions of the ‘other’ language in family talk
The present study analyses bilingual conversations taking place in binational families living in the UK. The focus is on two Polish/English stepfamilies, where the Polish mothers’ concern with preserving and developing their children’s linguistic and cultural identity collides with the English partner’s limited knowledge of Polish. While the paper takes a CA approach to bilingual conversation (Auer 1984; Li 1994), it shows that even when language…
How to Propose an Action as Objectively Necessary: The Case of Polish Trzeba x (“One Needs to x ”)
The present study demonstrates that language-specific grammatical resources can afford speakers language-specific ways of organizing cooperative practical action. On the basis of video recordings of Polish families in their homes, we describe action affordances of the Polish impersonal modal declarative construction trzeba x (“one needs to x”) in the accomplishment of everyday domestic activities, such as cutting bread, bringing recalcitrant chil…
Höflichkeit zwischen Konvention und Kreativität. Eine pragmalinguistische Analyse von Dankesformeln im Russischen [Politeness between Convention and Creativity. A Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Thanking…
Politeness and in-directness across cultures: A comparison of English, German, Polish and Russian requests
This paper provides some (more) insights into cross-cultural variation in speech act realization by analyzing English, German, Polish and Russian requests. It aims to shows that the relationship between indirectness and politeness is interpreted differently across cultures. Hence, the analysis focuses on the difference between direct requests, which have been said to play a central role in Polish and Russian, and conventionally indirect requests,…
On the culture-specificity of linguistic gender differences: The case of English and Russian apologies
The present paper analyzes the influence of gender and culture on speech act performance. Although culture as a factor shaping gender roles can be regarded as being implicitly addressed by the growing number of speech act studies analyzing gender differences in various languages, results from such studies are difficult to compare. This study examines responses to offensive situations produced under identical contextual conditions by English and R…
Responsibility and Action: Invariants and Diversity in Requests for Objects in British English and Polish Interaction
We compare the use of two formats for requesting an object in informal everyday interaction: imperatives, common in our Polish data, and second-person polar questions, common in our English data. Imperatives and polar questions are selected in the same interactional “home environments” across the languages, in which they enact two social actions: drawing on shared responsibility and enlisting assistance, respectively. Speakers across the language…
How to Propose an Action as Objectively Necessary: The Case of Polish Trzeba x (“One Needs to x ”)
The present study demonstrates that language-specific grammatical resources can afford speakers language-specific ways of organizing cooperative practical action. On the basis of video recordings of Polish families in their homes, we describe action affordances of the Polish impersonal modal declarative construction trzeba x (“one needs to x”) in the accomplishment of everyday domestic activities, such as cutting bread, bringing recalcitrant chil…
In/directness in Polish children's requests at the dinner table
Politeness and in-directness across cultures: A comparison of English, German, Polish and Russian requests
This paper provides some (more) insights into cross-cultural variation in speech act realization by analyzing English, German, Polish and Russian requests. It aims to shows that the relationship between indirectness and politeness is interpreted differently across cultures. Hence, the analysis focuses on the difference between direct requests, which have been said to play a central role in Polish and Russian, and conventionally indirect requests,…
On the dual role of expressive speech acts: Relational work on signs announcing closures during the Covid-19 pandemic
Direct off-record requests? - 'Hinting' in family interactions
An Interlanguage Study of Request Perspective: Evidence from German, Greek, Polish and Russian Learners of English
The present study examines request perspective, the least researched form of mitigation in requesting, while focusing on a type of request characterized by a strong preference for speaker perspective in English and for hearer perspective in most other languages researched to date. It examines requests produced by 900 speakers from nine different (inter)language groups: five groups of native speakers (English, German, Greek, Polish and Russian) an…
An Intergenerational Perspective on (Im)politeness
The present paper provides an intergenerational perspective on Greek conceptualizations of (im)politeness. Based on interviews eliciting narratives of impolite behaviour of our participants’ parents’ generation, the study illustrates the contested and changing nature of politeness in contemporary Greece. Through critically evaluating the older generation’s behaviour, the participants not only provided insights into their own politeness norms but …
Object requests: Rights and obligations surrounding object possession and object transfer
Pragmatics in the service of marketing: The case of Covid-19 semi-commercial public signs
On the culture-specificity of linguistic gender differences: The case of English and Russian apologies
The present paper analyzes the influence of gender and culture on speech act performance. Although culture as a factor shaping gender roles can be regarded as being implicitly addressed by the growing number of speech act studies analyzing gender differences in various languages, results from such studies are difficult to compare. This study examines responses to offensive situations produced under identical contextual conditions by English and R…
Stay safe!” — A wish, advice, or an order: Pragmatic variability and change in times of a pandemic
This paper offers a diachronic analysis focussing on the different uses and forms that the expression stay safe acquired throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. It makes an original contribution to the study of historical pragmatics by drawing on data traditionally examined in the field of linguistic landscape studies and produced during a global health crisis, resulting in an innovative, real-time study of pragmatic change in progress. Drawing on a co…
On the inclusive and exclusive functions of the ‘other’ language in family talk
The present study analyses bilingual conversations taking place in binational families living in the UK. The focus is on two Polish/English stepfamilies, where the Polish mothers’ concern with preserving and developing their children’s linguistic and cultural identity collides with the English partner’s limited knowledge of Polish. While the paper takes a CA approach to bilingual conversation (Auer 1984; Li 1994), it shows that even when language…
On the culture-specificity of linguistic gender differences: The case of English and Russian apologies
The present paper analyzes the influence of gender and culture on speech act performance. Although culture as a factor shaping gender roles can be regarded as being implicitly addressed by the growing number of speech act studies analyzing gender differences in various languages, results from such studies are difficult to compare. This study examines responses to offensive situations produced under identical contextual conditions by English and R…
Politeness and in-directness across cultures: A comparison of English, German, Polish and Russian requests
This paper provides some (more) insights into cross-cultural variation in speech act realization by analyzing English, German, Polish and Russian requests. It aims to shows that the relationship between indirectness and politeness is interpreted differently across cultures. Hence, the analysis focuses on the difference between direct requests, which have been said to play a central role in Polish and Russian, and conventionally indirect requests,…
Höflichkeit zwischen Konvention und Kreativität. Eine pragmalinguistische Analyse von Dankesformeln im Russischen [Politeness between Convention and Creativity. A Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Thanking…
How to Propose an Action as Objectively Necessary: The Case of Polish Trzeba x (“One Needs to x ”)
The present study demonstrates that language-specific grammatical resources can afford speakers language-specific ways of organizing cooperative practical action. On the basis of video recordings of Polish families in their homes, we describe action affordances of the Polish impersonal modal declarative construction trzeba x (“one needs to x”) in the accomplishment of everyday domestic activities, such as cutting bread, bringing recalcitrant chil…
Responsibility and Action: Invariants and Diversity in Requests for Objects in British English and Polish Interaction
We compare the use of two formats for requesting an object in informal everyday interaction: imperatives, common in our Polish data, and second-person polar questions, common in our English data. Imperatives and polar questions are selected in the same interactional “home environments” across the languages, in which they enact two social actions: drawing on shared responsibility and enlisting assistance, respectively. Speakers across the language…
On the inclusive and exclusive functions of the ‘other’ language in family talk
The present study analyses bilingual conversations taking place in binational families living in the UK.The focus is on two Polish/English stepfamilies, where the Polish mothers' concern with preserving and developing their children's linguistic and cultural identity collides with the English partner's limited knowledge of Polish.While the paper takes a CA approach to bilingual conversation (Auer 1984;Li 1994), it shows that even when language ch…
On the inclusive and exclusive functions of the ‘other’ language in family talk
The present study analyses bilingual conversations taking place in binational families living in the UK. The focus is on two Polish/English stepfamilies, where the Polish mothers’ concern with preserving and developing their children’s linguistic and cultural identity collides with the English partner’s limited knowledge of Polish. While the paper takes a CA approach to bilingual conversation (Auer 1984; Li 1994), it shows that even when language…
Understanding Politeness
In/directness in Polish children's requests at the dinner table
Direct off-record requests? - 'Hinting' in family interactions
Object requests: Rights and obligations surrounding object possession and object transfer
An Intergenerational Perspective on (Im)politeness
The present paper provides an intergenerational perspective on Greek conceptualizations of (im)politeness. Based on interviews eliciting narratives of impolite behaviour of our participants’ parents’ generation, the study illustrates the contested and changing nature of politeness in contemporary Greece. Through critically evaluating the older generation’s behaviour, the participants not only provided insights into their own politeness norms but …
An Interlanguage Study of Request Perspective: Evidence from German, Greek, Polish and Russian Learners of English
The present study examines request perspective, the least researched form of mitigation in requesting, while focusing on a type of request characterized by a strong preference for speaker perspective in English and for hearer perspective in most other languages researched to date. It examines requests produced by 900 speakers from nine different (inter)language groups: five groups of native speakers (English, German, Greek, Polish and Russian) an…
On the dual role of expressive speech acts: Relational work on signs announcing closures during the Covid-19 pandemic
Accounts as acts of identity: Justifying business closures on Covid-19 public signs in Athens and London
This paper investigates accounts justifying the closures of businesses found on public signs in Athens and London during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data for the study was drawn from a corpus of COVID-19-related public signage collected in the two cities during the first lockdown. The accounts used on these signs are analysed as acts of identity and, specifically, as discursive means deployed by the authors of the signs to project themselves and t…
Disseminating risk communication: Advice offered on non-official public signage during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper investigates advice offered on closure signs displayed on businesses in Greece and the UK during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic. By scrutinising signs photographed in London and in Athens, as well as speeches delivered by the British and Greek prime ministers at the time of the closures, our analysis shows how business owners pass on government instructions to their customers. The study thus makes an original contribution …
On authentic questions in academic writing tutorials: Epistemic authority and the co-construction of knowledge
Stay safe!” — A wish, advice, or an order: Pragmatic variability and change in times of a pandemic
This paper offers a diachronic analysis focussing on the different uses and forms that the expression stay safe acquired throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. It makes an original contribution to the study of historical pragmatics by drawing on data traditionally examined in the field of linguistic landscape studies and produced during a global health crisis, resulting in an innovative, real-time study of pragmatic change in progress. Drawing on a co…
Pragmatics in the service of marketing: The case of Covid-19 semi-commercial public signs
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (17 works) · Linguistics (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)