Prof. Dr. Sofia Rüdiger

I am a linguist specialized in English linguistics. My research interests are situated across different fields and areas:

Follow this link for a list and description of projects in progress: current projects.

News

New Appointment: As of October 1, 2024, I'm guest professor (for two years) at FU Berlin. My new institutional website can be found here: FU Berlin - Prof. Dr. Sofia Rüdiger.

Instagram Channel, Language and Food: Together with my PhD student Ryan Fountain, I launched an Instagram channel for our project on the discursive construction of eating as entertainment. We are posting regular project updates as well as insights from language and food research, food etymologies, and much more. 

BaFoLa Digital Lecture Series, Season 7: The Season 7 program of the Bayreuth Food and Language Talks (#BaFoLa) is now available. We're very much looking forward to four delicious talks by Anna Islentyeva, Ariana Gunderson, Marlén Izquierdo, and Loukia Lindholm.

OSSO Digital Lecture Series, Season 3: The Online Selves - Self Online online lecture series is back for fall 2024. This season features Jan Chovanec (Masaryk University), Svetlana Vetchinnikova (University of Helsinki), Carmen Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King’s College London). The talks take place via Zoom and are open to all, but registration is needed: https://forms.office.com/e/LVmB9NYtPh

In the News: Daria Dayter and I were featured as experts in an article on dating coaches published by the Tagesschau: Fragwürdige Methoden von "Dating Coaches".

Paperback Publication, Routledge: The Language of Pick-up Artists - Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry (co-authored with Daria Dayter) is now available as paperback version from the Routledge website.

Forthcoming Publication, Cambridge University Press: Our edited volume on Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language (co-edited with Daria Dayter) has been announced as forthcoming on the CUP website. Contributors: Sandrine Sorlin, Bogdana Humă, Christian R. Hoffmann, Lu Xiao, Theodoros Lappas, Charis Owuraku Asante-Agyei, Sofie Decock, Koen Plevoets, Robert Fuchs, David Wright, Frazer Heritage, Robert Lawson, William Dance, Oliver Niebuhr, Plinio Almeida Barbosa, Rosalyn M. Langedijk, Kerstin Fischer, Rodney H. Jones.

Forthcoming Publication, Routledge: Entangled Englishes, co-edited with Jerry Won Lee, is officially forthcoming with Routledge. Contributors include: Christina Higgins, Kristen Urada, Shaila Sultana, Bal Krishna Sharma, Jaspal Naveel Singh, Yumi Matsumoto, Ivan Jin, Daniel N. Silva, Stephanie Rudwick, Patriann Smith, Kellie Gonçalves, Didem Leblebici, Britta Schneider, Ron Darvin, Keith Tong, Fay Chen, Angel Lin, Ana Tankosić, Sender Dovchin, and Rhonda Oliver. With a foreword by Alastair Pennycook. See here for further information.

Panel Organization, ADDA 5: Dawn Archer, Daria Dayter, Frazer Heritage, and I are organizing a panel on "Influencer Discourse: Navigating the Spectrum from Positive to Negative Impact" at ADDA 5 (Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 5) in Tilburg (21-23 May 2025).

Forthcoming Publication, Cambridge University Press: Transnational Korean Englishes (co-authored with Alex Baratta) is forthcoming as part of the World Englishes Element Series by CUP.  More information can be found at the CUP website.

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