Publications

Monographs & Short-Form Books

[A3] Rüdiger, Sofia and Alex Baratta. 2025. Transnational Korean Englishes [Elements in World Englishes]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009519366

[A2] Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2022. The Language of Pick-Up Artists: Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry. London/New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003041313 

Reviewed in Gender and Language by Laura Filardo-Llamas (Universidad de Valladolid)

Reviewed in Discourse & Communication by Emily Chiang (Aston University)

Reviewed in Language in Society by Tran Truong (Pennsylvania State University)

[A1] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2019. Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English [Varieties of English Around the World 62]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g62 

Edited Collections & Special Issues

[B10] Mühleisen, Susanne and Sofia Rüdiger, eds. 2025. Focus on Language and Food. Special Issue of Anglistik 36(2). https://angl.winter-verlag.de/issue/ANGL/2025/2 (OA)

[B9] Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter, eds. 2025. Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009105194 

[B8] Rüdiger, Sofia, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert and Sarah Buschfeld, eds. 2025. World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model [New Directions in World Englishes Research 1]. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399527866 

Reviewed in Folia Linguistica by Michael Westphal (Kiel University)

[B7] Lee, Jerry Won and Sofia Rüdiger, eds. 2025. Entangled Englishes. London/New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003441304 

Reviewed in English Today by Pasan Athapaththu (University of Kelaniya)

[B6] Pfadenhauer, Katrin, Sofia Rüdiger and Valentina Serreli, eds. 2024. Global and Local Perspectives on Language Contact [Contact and Multilingualism 7]. Berlin: Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10438503  (OA)

[B5] Rüdiger, Sofia and Claudia Lange, eds. 2023. The Language of Science Fiction. Special Issue of Linguistics Vanguard 9(3). https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/lingvan/9/s3/html 

[B4] Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen, eds. 2022. Formality and Informality in Online Performances. Special Issue of Internet Pragmatics 5(1). https://benjamins.com/catalog/ip.5.1

[B3] Leuckert, Sven and Sofia Rüdiger, eds. 2021. Discourse Markers and World Englishes. Special Issue of World Englishes 40(4). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467971x/2021/40/4 

[B2] Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter, eds. 2020. Corpus Approaches to Social Media [Studies in Corpus Linguistics 98]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.98 

Reviewed in English Language & Linguistics by Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland)

Reviewed in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics by Elen Le Foll (Osnabrück University)

Reviewed in LINGUIST List 32.2336 by Ylva Biri (University of Helsinki)

[B1] Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen, eds. 2020. Talking About Food: The Social and the Global in Eating Communities [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 47]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.47 

Articles in Journals (Peer-reviewed)

[C13] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2025. "Let’s Eat Together: Participation Frameworks in Multi-Party Asynchronous Eating Shows." Anglistik 36(2): 107-127. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2025/2/9 (OA)

[C12] Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Problematising Expressives: The Case of Magical Affirmations in the Pick-up Artist Paradigm." Journal of Pragmatics 241: 30-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.005 (OA)

[C11] Rüdiger, Sofia, Jakob R. E. Leimgruber and Ming-i Lydia Tseng. 2023. "English in Taiwan: Expanding the Scope of Corpus-Based Research on East Asian Englishes." English Today 39(2): 100-109. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078422000062 (OA)

[C10] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2022. "Intimate Consumptions: YouTube Eating Shows and the Performance of Informality." Internet Pragmatics 5(1): 115-142. https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00070.rud 

[C9] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2021. "Digital Food Talk: Blurring Immediacy and Distance in YouTube Eating Shows." Anglistik 32(2): 111-130. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2021/2/9 (OA)

[C8] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2021. "The Use of Like in Korean English Speech." World Englishes 40(4): 548-561. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12540 (OA)

[C7] Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter. 2020. "Manbragging Online: Self-Praise on Pick-Up Artists’ Forums." Journal of Pragmatics 161: 16-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.02.012 

[C6] Leuckert, Sven and Sofia Rüdiger. 2020. "Non-Canonical Syntax in an Expanding Circle Variety: Fronting in Spoken Korean(ized) English." English World-Wide 41(1): 33-58. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00039.leu 

[C5] Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2019. "In Other Words: ‘The Language of Attraction’ Used by Pick-Up Artists." English Today 35(2): 13-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026607841800007X

[C4] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2018. "Mixed Feelings: Attitudes towards English Loanwords and Their Use in South Korea." Open Linguistics 4(1): 184-198. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0010  (OA)

[C3] Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter. 2017. "The Ethics of Researching Unlikeable Subjects: Language in an Online Community." Applied Linguistics Review 8(2/3): 251-269. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2016-1038

[C2] Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2016. "Reporting from the Field: The Narrative Reconstruction of Experience in Pick-Up Artist Online Communities." Open Linguistics 2(1): 337-351. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0016 (OA)

[C1] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2014. "The Nativization of English in the Korean Context: Uncharted Territory for World Englishes." English Today 30(4): 11-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078414000340

Articles in Edited Volumes & Conference Proceedings (Peer-reviewed)

[D11] Leuckert, Sven and Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Talking About (Non-)Canonicity: A Study of Linguistic Terminology." In: Leuckert, Sven and Teresa Pham, eds. Non-Canonical English Syntax: Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 14-39. 

[D10] Leimgruber, Jakob R. E. and Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Discourse-Pragmatic like in East Asian Englishes: Focus on Taiwan." In:  Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl, eds. World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 317-334. https://doi.org/10.1075/hsld.9.14lei (OA)

[D9] Mühleisen, Susanne and Sofia Rüdiger. 2024. "Wer kocht hier eigentlich? Kochshows und Participation Frameworks im digitalen Raum." In: Diemer, Stefan, ed. Sprache und Essen: Ansichten einer linguistischen Kulinaristik [Jahrbuch Kulinaristik 6]. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. 19-37. https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/product/9783826077371-sprache-und-essen/

[D8] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2023. "English in Korea—Korean English—A World Englishes Perspective." In: Chapelle, Carol A., ed. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20141 

[D7] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2021. “Non-Postcolonial Englishes in East Asia: Focus on Korean Popular Music.” In: Schneider, Britta and Theresa Heyd, eds. World Englishes – Volume 1: Paradigms. London: Bloomsbury. 207-223. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350065833.0021

[D6] Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2020. "Talking about Women: Elicitation, Manual Tagging, and Semantic Tagging in a Study of Pick-Up Artists' Referential Strategies." In: Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter, eds. Corpus Approaches to Social Media. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 63-86. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.98.03day 

[D5] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2020. "English in South Korea: Applying the EIF Model." In: Buschfeld, Sarah and Alexander Kautzsch, eds. Modelling World Englishes: A Joint Approach to Postcolonial and Non-Postcolonial Varieties. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 154-178. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv1453j9w.13 

[D4] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2020. "Dinner for One: The Use of Language in Eating Shows on YouTube." In: Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen, eds. Talking About Food: The Social and the Global in Eating Communities. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 145-165. https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.47.08rud 

[D3] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2017. "Spoken English in Korea: An Expanding Circle English Revisited." In: Jenks, Christopher J. and Jerry Won Lee, eds. Korean Englishes in Transnational Contexts. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 75-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59788-1_4 

[D2] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2016. "Cuppa Coffee? Challenges and Opportunities of Compiling a Conversational English Corpus in an Expanding Circle Setting." In: Christ, Hanna, Daniel Klenovšak, Lukas Sönning and Valentin Werner, eds. A Blend of MaLT: Selected Contributions from the Methods and Linguistic Theories Symposium 2015. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. 49-71. (OA at https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/41360)

[D1] Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2014. "Speak Your Mind, but Watch Your Mouth: Complaints in CouchSurfing References." In: Bedijs, Kristina, Gudrun Held and Christiane Maaß, eds. Face Work and Social Media. Zürich/Berlin: LIT. 193-212. (OA at https://hildok.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/index/index/year/2014/docId/230)

Other Publications (Non-peer Reviewed)

[E16] Allgaier, Joachim, Tina Bartelmeß, Paulien Decorte, Rebecca Evans, Zeena Feldman, Melissa Fernandez, Francesca Forno, Katharina Graf, Rafi Grosglik, Dai-In Danny Han, Samantha L. Huey, Laura M. König, Jonatan Leer, Tania Lewis, Anders Kristian Munk, Maria Giovanna Onorati, Fabio Parasecoli, Stephanie R. Partridge, Maren C. Podszun, Sofia Rüdiger, Tanja Schneider, Gudrun Sproesser, Jan Wirsam and Martijn Zoet. 2025. "Digital Foodscapes: Past - Present - Future." SocArXiv Papers [Preprint] https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/pzmu5_v1 (OA)

[E15]  Mühleisen, Susanne and Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Language and Food Research: Perspectives, Significance, and Outlook." Anglistik 36(2): 5-12. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2025/2/4 (OA)

[E14] Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Corpus Linguistics and Persuasion." In: Brookes, Gavin and David Wright, eds. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition. Corpus Linguistics Section. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00488-9

[E13] Dayter, Daria and Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Persuasion and Influence in Linguistic Research." In: Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter, eds. Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 3-18.

[E12] Lee, Jerry Won and Sofia Rüdiger. 2025. "Introduction: Entangled Englishes." In: Jerry Won Lee and Sofia Rüdiger, eds. Entangled Englishes. London/New York: Routledge. 1-14.

[E11] Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter. 2025. "Decoding Persuasion: A Linguistic Journey Through Manipulation and Influence." Fifteen Eighty Four: Academic Perspectives from Cambridge University Press. Blog post.

[E10] Leuckert, Sven, Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier and Sarah Buschfeld. 2025. "Synopsis: The Present and Future of the Dynamic Model." In: Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert and Sarah Buschfeld, eds. World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 379-388.

[E9] Neumaier, Theresa, Sven Leuckert, Sofia Rüdiger and Sarah Buschfeld. 2025. "Introduction: 20 Years of the Dynamic Model." In: Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert and Sarah Buschfeld, eds. World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 3-21.

[E8] Pham, Teresa, Sven Leuckert, Gea Dreschler, Sandra Götz, Christine Günther, Kathrin Kircili, Claudia Lange, Theresa Neumaier, Louise Mycock and Sofia Rüdiger. 2024. "Defining Non-Canonicity: An Integrated Approach to Modelling Syntactic Variation."  OSF Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/92zhg (OA)

[E7] Pfadenhauer, Katrin, Sofia Rüdiger and Valentina Serreli. 2024. "Introduction." In: Pfadenhauer, Katrin, Sofia Rüdiger and Valentina Serreli, eds. Global and Local Perspectives on Language Contact. Berlin: Language Science Press. iii–xi. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10497367 (OA)

[E6] Rüdiger, Sofia and Claudia Lange. 2023. "Introduction to the Special Issue on 'The Language of Science Fiction.'" Linguistics Vanguard 9(3): 229-232.  https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0031 (OA)

[E5] Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen. 2022. "Introduction to the Special Issue: Formality and Informality in Online Performances." Internet Pragmatics 5(1): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00078.rud

[E4] Leuckert, Sven and Sofia Rüdiger.  2021. "Discourse Markers and World Englishes." World Englishes 40(4): 482-487.  https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12535 (OA)

[E3] Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter. 2020. "Introduction: The Expanding Landscape of Corpus-Based Studies of Social Media Language." In: Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter, eds. Corpus Approaches to Social Media. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.98.int 

[E2] Mühleisen, Susanne and Sofia Rüdiger. 2020. "Introduction: Food and Talk in Social Life." In: Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen, eds. Talking About Food: The Social and the Global in Eating Communities. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.47.01muh 

[E1] Rüdiger, Sofia and Daria Dayter. 2019. "The Language of Pick-Up Artists." Babel - The Language Magazine 27: 16-20.

Reviews 

[F13] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2025. Fascination with English in South Korea - Jieun Kiaer and Hyejeong Ahn, Emergence of Korean English: How Korea's Dynamic English Is Born. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. xi+180. Hardback £108.00, ISBN 9781032257709, e-book £31.99, ISBN 9781003284956. In English Today First View. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078425000057 

[F12] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2024. Review of Alexander Onysko (ed.), 2021, Research Developments in World Englishes, London/New York: Bloomsbury. In Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Developments 45(8): 3482-3483. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2127613 

[F11] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2022. Review of Alla Tovares and Cynthia Gordon (eds.), 2021, Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse: Social Media Interactions Across Cultural Contexts, London/New York: Bloomsbury. In Discourse Studies 24(3): 371-373. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221110842

[F10] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2021. Review of Andreas H. Jucker, 2020, Politeness in the History of English – From the Middle Ages to the Present Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In Discourse Studies 23(2): 231-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445621994345

[F9] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2019. Review of Alexander Bergs and Laurel Brinton (eds.), 2017, The History of English - Volume 5: Varieties of English. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. In Linguist List 30.1100.

[F8] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2018. Review of Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, 2017, Linguanomics. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. In Linguist List 29.924.

[F7] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2016. Review of Will Baker, 2015, Culture and Identity through English as a Lingua Franca. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. In Linguist List 27.1501.

[F6] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2015. Review of Jieun Kiaer, 2014, The History of English Loanwords in Korean. München: LINCOM. In Linguist List 26.3081.

[F5] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2014. Review of Jennifer Jenkins, 2014, English as a Lingua Franca in the International University. London: Routledge. In Linguist List 25.4568. 

[F4] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2013. Review of Christiane Meierkord, 2012, Interactions across Englishes: Linguistic Choices in Local and International Contact Situations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In eLanguage.

[F3] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2012. Review of Jamie Shinhee Lee and Andrew Moody (eds.), 2012, English in Asian Popular Culture. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. In eLanguage.

[F2] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2012. Review of Roberta Piazza, Monika Bednarek, and Fabio Rossi (eds.), 2011, Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. In eLanguage.

[F1] Rüdiger, Sofia. 2012. Review of Lucien Brown, 2011, Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. In eLanguage.