Eva Ogiermann

Eva Ogiermann is a Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the School of Education, Communication & Society. She specializes in pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, and politeness theory, with a focus on how language functions in social interaction and educational contexts. Her recent work explores pandemic-era communication, analyzing public signage and risk messaging during the COVID-19 crisis.

Education: PhD from Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (2007) and MA from University of Münster (2001). Her research contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education).

Publications (42 total) include studies on academic writing tutorials, marketing pragmatics, and pragmatic variability in pandemic language use. She led a Leverhulme Trust-funded project (2022–2023) examining non-official pandemic signage. Active in editorial roles for journals like Journal of Pragmatics and MULTILINGUA.

Her research interests span epistemic authority, intercultural communication, and the sociolinguistic dimensions of public discourse. She collaborates internationally on projects analyzing discourse in contexts ranging from academic settings to public health crises.