Spyridoula Bella, Eva Ogiermann

Spyridoula Bella is Professor of Linguistics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research interests include pragmatics, linguistic (im)politeness, second language acquisition and second language teaching. Her research output in these areas has appeared in international journals (Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Politeness Research, Multilingua, Contrastive Pragmatics, Pragmatics) as well as a number of collected volumes both in English and Greek.

 Eva Ogiermann is Reader in English Language and Applied Linguistics at King’s College London. Most of her research revolves around the question of the culture-specificity of language use. Her publications compare various speech acts in English, German, Greek, Polish and Russian and investigate culture-specific perceptions and conceptualisations of politeness. They include a monograph on apologising (Benjamins 2009), an edited volume on politeness (CUP 2019) and articles in Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Contrastive Pragmatics, Journal of Politeness Research, Multilingua, and Research on Language and Social Interaction.