Spyridoula Bella
List of John Benjamins publications for which Spyridoula Bella plays a role.
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
2021 Chapter 8. In search of the missing grade: Egalitarianism and deference in L1 and L2 students’ emails to faculty members Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners, Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria, Milica Savić and Nicola Halenko (eds.), pp. 203–226 | Chapter
The present study investigates the performance of email requests by L1 and L2 Greek University students to faculty members. Drawing from a corpus of authentic data the study seeks to highlight the differences in the way the two groups of students frame their requests in terms of both the… read more
2019 Chapter 15. The past perfect in Cypriot Greek: Innovation because – or irrespective – of contact? Language Variation - European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017, Villena-Ponsoda, Juan-Andrés, Francisco Díaz Montesinos, Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro (eds.), pp. 231–244 | Chapter
The Cypriot Greek koine displays structural innovations, arguably as a result of prolonged contact with Standard Greek (SG), the ‘H’ variety in the diglossic context of the Greek Cypriot speech community. Periphrastic perfect forms are among such innovations. As regards the Past Perfect, in… read more
2016 Offers by Greek FL learners: A cross-sectional developmental study Pragmatics 26:4, pp. 531–562 | Article
This study investigates developmental patterns in the ability of Greek foreign language learners to make offers. Drawing data from role-plays and retrospective verbal reports it attempts to explore the initiative offer strategies, the syntactic modification and the degree of insistence that… read more
2014 A contrastive study of apologies performed by Greek native speakers and English learners of Greek as a foreign language Pragmatics 24:4, pp. 679–713 | Article
This paper investigates apologies produced by Greek native speakers and English learners of Greek as a foreign language in two informal (-P, -D) and two formal situations (+P, +D). Drawing on data elicited by means of an assessment questionnaire, a DCT and the participants’ verbal reports, the… read more
2012 Length of residence and intensity of interaction: Modification in Greek L2 requests Pragmatics 22:1, pp. 1–39 | Article
This paper investigates the external and internal modification devices used by native speakers and advanced learners of Greek, when making requests in formal and informal situations. The data are drawn from a discourse completion test completed by native speakers and learners of two different… read more