The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic
Edited by Eva Ogiermann
Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 14:2 (2023) v, 185 pp.
Eva Ogiermann
List of John Benjamins publications in which Eva Ogiermann is involved.
Titles
On Apologising in Negative and Positive Politeness Cultures
Eva Ogiermann
This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 191] 2009. x, 296 pp.
2025 “Stay safe!” — A wish, advice, or an order? Pragmatic variability and change in times of a pandemic Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:3, pp. 321–353 | Article
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… read more
2023 Introduction: The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic, Ogiermann, Eva (ed.), pp. 197–209 | Introduction
2023 Disseminating risk communication: Advice offered on non-official public signage during the Covid-19 pandemic The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic, Ogiermann, Eva (ed.), pp. 334–357 | Article
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… read more
2022 Accounts as acts of identity: Justifying business closures on COVID-19 public signs in Athens and London Pragmatics 32:4, pp. 620–647 | Article
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… read more
2012 Chapter 3. Investigating gender variation of English loanwords in German The Anglicization of European Lexis, Furiassi, Cristiano, Virginia Pulcini and Félix Rodríguez González (eds.), pp. 65–89 | Article
This article examines variation in gender assignment to English loanwords – a phenomenon that has rarely been studied on a large empirical basis to date. We report on a multi-method study of gender assignment to Anglicisms as evidenced by large newspaper corpora and experimental data elicited from… read more