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14
Apr
2022

Long COVID: The impact on language and...

As we take stock nationally of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and economy of the UK, we would do well to think about the many people who have not made a good recovery from the SARS-CoV-2...
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12
Nov
2020

Home for Christmas?

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian government has closed its borders, but welcomes home Australian citizens. However, it’s not as simple as boarding a plane and flying home....
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20
Oct
2020

The long road back: Implications of Covid-19 for...

We are still in the maelstrom that is the Covid-19 pandemic and are likely to remain so for some time to come. The loss of life and economic hardship are apparent to all and are shocking to even seasoned...
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9
Oct
2020

Interactional rituals and the systematic analysis...

Permit as a speech act addresses a future action to be undertaken by the addressee in his own interests, which almost always appears to concur with a Request for a Permit. In the context of social distancing,...
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9
Oct
2020

Interactional rituals and the systematic analysis...

In the following, we discuss the speech act type ‘Invite’. This speech act expresses that the speaker wishes her addressee to know that she is in favour of a future action to be performed by the other,...
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9
Oct
2020

Interactional rituals and the systematic analysis...

In this blog we discuss the speech act ‘suggest’. This speech act involves the situation where a speaker is communicating that he/she is as much in favour of the addressee performing a future action...
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9
Oct
2020

Interactional rituals and the systematic analysis...

Of the various speech acts used in the wake of COVID-19 and the corresponding need for social distancing, ‘Apologise’ is perhaps the most important. Since the enforcement of social distancing unavoidably...
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22
Jul
2020

Loneliness, Helping Hands, TRUTH: One hundred...

Until December 2019, I was in Nanjing, some five hundred kilometres from Wuhan where the first cases of the new lung disease were then discovered. When things unfolded in January, I initially felt a sense...
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